2014-01-17, 10:48
In case you haven't read it, have a look at this link it has quite a lot of information more towards the halfwy mark to bottom which may aid you in hacking together some workaround.
2014-01-17, 11:43
@uNiversal: All fine, you don't need to help him. He is helping me a lot for finding that bug.
@evanpurkhiser: Thanks for the output. It's completely the same on Ubuntu 13.10 / Debian 4.0 - so the issue must be more way down.
@evanpurkhiser: Thanks for the output. It's completely the same on Ubuntu 13.10 / Debian 4.0 - so the issue must be more way down.
2014-01-17, 11:45
Mmh, but in deed, there was something in that link, that made me think:
Let's see what ubuntu does here and what Arch does. Will try.
Can you compare the idle attributes? E.g. is there a difference between this virtual and the normal sinks?
Code:
load-module module-stream-restore restore_device=falseLet's see what ubuntu does here and what Arch does. Will try.
Quote:Also, I've run into a slightly more frustrating case than with mpd not removing it's sink-input when paused. I've setup a tunnel-sink from my desktop to my HTPC so I can play audio from my desktop on some nicer speakers. Unfortunately it looks like this keeps a sink-input open at all times Sad I have to make sure to manually kill it before siting down to watch a ac3/dts movie.
Can you compare the idle attributes? E.g. is there a difference between this virtual and the normal sinks?
2014-01-17, 12:24
(2014-01-17, 11:45)fritsch Wrote: Can you compare the idle attributes? E.g. is there a difference between this virtual and the normal sinks?
I do see that my tunnel-sink on my desktop currently has the attribute 'state: SUSPENDED' with 'suspend cause: IDLE'. On the HTPC I still see the sink-input connected to the sink with the state 'CORKED'. Even more annoying is that it has the 'DONT_MOVE' flag set, so I can't move it to the null sink to keep the connection alive. So when I kill it on my htpc I have to reload the tunnel-sink module on my desktop.
I will probably get around this by creating a NULL sink on my HTPC and connecting the tunnel-sink to that. Then using the loopback module to connect the monitor of that sink to my actual hardware sink. Then I should be able to kill the loopback sink-input when I want to use passthrough. This is still annoying, but atleast I wont have to reload the tunnel-sink on my desktop since it will stay connected to the null sink on my htpc.
Edit: That works but it definitely introduces a bit of latency >_<
Edit2: Ahh! But it's not so bad when setting the latency_msec=50 ish on the loopback module
2014-01-17, 20:42
While debugging I found an issue with my device enumeration and opening code. That's fixed now :-)
One could not even switch away from the default device.
One could not even switch away from the default device.
2014-01-20, 16:07
Can someone upload English versions of the screenshots in first post with same settings exaclty pls
Thats for wiki and I been told English preferred.
Thats for wiki and I been told English preferred.
2014-01-20, 17:52
Ok, thanks... While you at it... Get matching XBMC audio settings screenies, you know, for the children... think of the children 
2014-01-21, 10:18
wiki page is up PulseAudio (wiki), anyone welcome to go and improve it, grammar etc etc.
2014-01-21, 10:23
What in the case of a dual-seat (XBMC/Ubuntu) setup? 
It used to work beautifully with the "official" Ubuntu package (UI & movie sounds, though I now understand why some HD passthrough didn't work).
Yesterday I installed the team-XBMC stable PPA (I need the PVR backend) and sound is now gone.
I think I should force XBMC to hook up to ALSA directly, since I don't need a pulseaudio overlay as it it the single user/application in his seat.
It used to work beautifully with the "official" Ubuntu package (UI & movie sounds, though I now understand why some HD passthrough didn't work).
Yesterday I installed the team-XBMC stable PPA (I need the PVR backend) and sound is now gone.
I think I should force XBMC to hook up to ALSA directly, since I don't need a pulseaudio overlay as it it the single user/application in his seat.
