[Katagia]

Hi

I hope you can help me. I'm facing a problem with XBMC for several years now.
I had those problems with Opensuse and now with Ubuntu 12 and Frodo Beta3.

Everything is fine and suddenly from one day to the next it's broken.
When XBMC get started everything is fine. I navigate through the menus and I can hera the clicking noise.
But as soon as I want to watch a movie audio is gone. The video is running crappy. During video start I get this log messages:
21:52:23 T:140237411784576 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (VideoFullScreen.xml) ------
21:52:23 T:140237411784576 INFO: Loading skin file: VideoFullScreen.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm_hw.c:424snd_pcm_hw_hw_free) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_FREE failed (-77): File descriptor in bad state
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "@:CARD=SB,DEV=0"
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm_hw.c:1293snd_pcm_hw_open) open '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p' failed (-16): Device or resource busy
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - Unable to open device "surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0" for playback
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm_hw.c:1293snd_pcm_hw_open) open '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p' failed (-16): Device or resource busy
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - Unable to open device "surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0" for playback
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm_hw.c:1293snd_pcm_hw_open) open '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p' failed (-16): Device or resource busy
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm_dmix.c:1018snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - Unable to open device "sysdefault:CARD=SB" for playback
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm_hw.c:1293snd_pcm_hw_open) open '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p' failed (-16): Device or resource busy
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm_dmix.c:1018snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - Unable to open device "default:CARD=SB" for playback
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - ALSA: pcm_hw.c:1293snd_pcm_hw_open) open '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p' failed (-16): Device or resource busy
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 INFO: CAESinkALSA - Unable to open device "front:CARD=SB,DEV=0" for playback
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 ERROR: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - failed to initialize device "@:CARD=SB,DEV=0"
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - NULL Initialized:
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: Output Device : HDA ATI SB
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: Sample Rate : 48000
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: Sample Format : AE_FMT_FLOAT
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: Channel Count : 6
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: Channel Layout: FL,FR,FC,LFE,BL,BR
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: Frames : 24000
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: Frame Samples : 6
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: Frame Size : 24
21:52:23 T:140237050550016 DEBUG: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - Using speaker layout: 5.1


When the movie gets stop audio in system menus is also gone.
I opnly have this problem with XBMC. _EVERY_ other programm is running fine. When the problem happens xbmc blocks the audiodevice. When I kill xbmc I can use the audiodevice with aplay again.


How can the audiodevice be busy when XBMC was able to use it just 1second before?

Audio is an onboard analog audio with 5.1 speakers connected:
aplay -L:
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC888 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

When this problem happens I have to use kill -9 to kill xbmc.


What can I do to finally solve this issue?

I really like XBMC but this is a issue I'm facing for YEARS now and I already tried different Linux distributions and setting.

After a long time changen audio configuration over and over again it suddenly start to work again but I can't see any difference in System.