[Phobios]

I have just now reinstalled kodi 19.1 on a fresh copy of Ubuntu 20.04, and I cannot enable audio passthrough to my receiver anymore. My previous installs on the same hardware and the same receiver never restricted me in this way, so I am curious if anyone knows why this is all suddenly the case. Thank you.

[black_eagle]

What are you trying to pass through?  If it's TrueHD or DTS-HD then note that pulseaudio is unable to pass them through.  In any case, a debug log (wiki) will show what Kodi thinks it can and can't use audio-wise.

[Phobios]

Will be getting a new receiver soon where I would want TrueHD and DTS-HD passthrough available. Right now it is mainly DTS I want to be able to pass through, but is not working for me.

This is my log file: https://paste.kodi.tv/unucitupig.kodi

I tried disabling pulseaudio by setting autospawn=no in /etc/pulse/client.conf, but to no avail. Is there any other way to disable pulseaudio and enable alsa?

[asavah]

I tried disabling pulseaudio by setting autospawn=no in /etc/pulse/client.conf, but to no avail. Is there any other way to disable pulseaudio and enable alsa?

start Kodi with KODI_AE_SINK=ALSA kodi

[black_eagle]

pasuspender -- env KODI_AE_SINK=ALSA kodi in a terminal should do it.  Personally, I have disabled pulse entirely by renaming it in /bin to disable-pulseaudio . I can't really recommend this but after a reboot, pulse obviously won't start.  As my PC runs Kodi 24/7 in a separate X window (on the tv) this works for me and Kodi uses ALSA.  If I need my desktop to output sound (same PC, different X window for my desktop), I just start pulse with /bin/disable-pulseaudio and then kill it when I'm done.

Probably a more 'proper way' is

xml:
systemctl --user mask pulseaudio.socket #unmask to revert

systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service

Then start Kodi.

[jawilljr]

Will be getting a new receiver soon where I would want TrueHD and DTS-HD passthrough available. Right now it is mainly DTS I want to be able to pass through, but is not working for me.

This is my log file: https://paste.kodi.tv/unucitupig.kodi

I tried disabling pulseaudio by setting autospawn=no in /etc/pulse/client.conf, but to no avail. Is there any other way to disable pulseaudio and enable alsa?

Here is a small script to disable pulseaudio and start kodi
 

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#stop pulseaudio

systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service

KODI_AE_SINK=ALSA kodi --standalone

#restart pulseaudio

systemctl --user start pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user start pulseaudio.service

Name it whatever you want, and of course make it executable.

[Phobios]

Thank you. That seems to have disabled pulseaudio and enabled Alsa. Unfortunately there is no sound anymore on kodi. There are a bunch of options as outputs audio devices, and none of them are working :/ Audio on other apps in Ubuntu seem to be working though.

[Phobios]

For some reason audio started working without me doing anything, but audio only works in the GUI, and whenever I start playing a video it goes silent.

The following devices are listed for ALSA

Code:

user@kodi:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC233 Analog [ALC233 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

But it is odd, because I do not have 4 HDMI outs, so why are so many listed? Have tried selecting all of them in kodi, but none of them work.

The following is log output for when trying to play a video file

Code:

2021-08-29 08:10:02.500 T:1338     INFO <general>: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: smb://192.168.1.1/movies/movie.mkv
2021-08-29 08:10:02.501 T:2192     INFO <general>: Creating InputStream
2021-08-29 08:10:03.301 T:2192     INFO <general>: Creating Demuxer
2021-08-29 08:10:04.825 T:2192     INFO <general>: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
2021-08-29 08:10:04.825 T:2192     INFO <general>: Creating video codec with codec id: 70
2021-08-29 08:10:04.825 T:2192     INFO <general>: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
2021-08-29 08:10:04.829 T:2192     INFO <general>: VAAPI::Close
2021-08-29 08:10:04.829 T:2192     INFO <general>: VAAPI::Close - closing decoder context
2021-08-29 08:10:04.837 T:2192     INFO <general>: Creating video thread
2021-08-29 08:10:04.837 T:2194     INFO <general>: running thread: video_thread
2021-08-29 08:10:04.838 T:2192     INFO <general>: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
2021-08-29 08:10:04.838 T:2192     INFO <general>: Finding audio codec for: 86020
2021-08-29 08:10:04.838 T:2192     INFO <general>: Creating audio thread
2021-08-29 08:10:04.839 T:2195     INFO <general>: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio:rocess()
2021-08-29 08:10:04.839 T:2192     INFO <general>: Opening stream: 3 source: 256
2021-08-29 08:10:05.051 T:2194     INFO <general>: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: SMPTE VC-1
2021-08-29 08:10:05.204 T:1338     INFO <general>: GL: Selecting YUV 2 RGB shader
2021-08-29 08:10:05.204 T:1338     INFO <general>: GL: Using GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
2021-08-29 08:10:05.204 T:1338     INFO <general>: Using GL_TEXTURE_2D
2021-08-29 08:10:05.467 T:2195     INFO <general>: CAEStreamParser::SyncDTS - dtsHD MA stream detected (8 channels, 48000Hz, 16bit BE, period: 8192, syncword: 0x41a29547, target rate: 0x18, framesize 2788))
2021-08-29 08:10:05.467 T:2195     INFO <general>: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86020, channels: 8, sample rate: 48000, pass-through)
2021-08-29 08:10:05.485 T:1480     INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2021-08-29 08:10:05.557 T:1338     INFO <general>: GL: Selecting YUV 2 RGB shader
2021-08-29 08:10:05.557 T:1338     INFO <general>: GL: Using GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
2021-08-29 08:10:05.730 T:1480     INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1"
2021-08-29 08:10:05.738 T:1480     INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1,AES0=0x06,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x00,AES3=0x09"
2021-08-29 08:10:05.785 T:1338     INFO <general>: Loading skin file: VideoFullScreen.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2021-08-29 08:10:05.808 T:2194     INFO <general>: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::CDropControl: calculated diff time: 41727
2021-08-29 08:10:08.500 T:1338     INFO <general>: Loading skin file: VideoOSD.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2021-08-29 08:10:19.150 T:1338     INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2021-08-29 08:10:19.150 T:1338     INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2021-08-29 08:10:19.161 T:2192     INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2021-08-29 08:10:19.161 T:2192     INFO <general>: Closing stream player 1
2021-08-29 08:10:19.161 T:2192     INFO <general>: Waiting for audio thread to exit
2021-08-29 08:10:19.207 T:2195     INFO <general>: thread end: CVideoPlayerAudio::OnExit()
2021-08-29 08:10:19.207 T:2192     INFO <general>: Closing audio device
2021-08-29 08:10:19.257 T:1480     INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2021-08-29 08:10:19.258 T:2192     INFO <general>: Deleting audio codec
2021-08-29 08:10:19.258 T:2192     INFO <general>: Closing stream player 2
2021-08-29 08:10:19.258 T:2192     INFO <general>: waiting for video thread to exit
2021-08-29 08:10:19.297 T:2194  WARNING <general>: OutputPicture - timeout waiting for buffer
2021-08-29 08:10:19.298 T:2194     INFO <general>: thread end: video_thread
2021-08-29 08:10:19.299 T:2192     INFO <general>: deleting video codec
2021-08-29 08:10:19.304 T:2192     INFO <general>: Closing stream player 3

​​​​​​​I see no errors regarding audio here. Is the issue with my receiver maybe?

[asavah]

@Phobios Please don't post large log snippets into the forum.
It's better to post full uncut Debug Log via Kodi Paste Site .

Edit: you may want to try completely powering off all your equipment.
Unplug everything from the mains.
Power on everything back in reverse order - eg. Kodi box should be the last one.
It may help.