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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!

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.

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

just ran this command in the terminal


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

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.