[benharvey1985]

May i first say happy christmas to everybody on this board!

Having just upgraded to Kodi Helix it is apparently using pulseaudio (on gotham i was using alsa) i can play videos fine, but no audio at all.

Can anyone shed some light or ideas on how i may solve?

Running on an ION system with a standalone login over the top of an ubuntu install.


Thank you for your time!

[DaVu]

Maybe take a look at this:

http://kodi.wiki/view/PulseAudio#FAQ

Do you need pulseaudio? Are you planning to have sound from your desktop or do you use this device only for XBMC? If the last matches to you, I would purge pulseaudio completely and use alsa.

[benharvey1985]

Thank you David1977 found that solution just before you posted it.

just ran this command in the terminal

Code:

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio

and all my audio settings were back how i remember them!

[oldtvwatcher]

If you don't want to purge pulseaudio completely you can still force Kodi to use ALSA by running it this way from a terminal window:

AE_SINK=ALSA kodi --standalone &

or

AE_SINK=ALSA kodi-standalone &

(Not sure what the difference is but I use the first). You can run this from a terminal window, a shell script, or whatever works best for you. The & at the end of the line causes it to run as a background task so your terminal window is freed or your shell script can continue.