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Just installed kodi 14 on a fresh install of kubuntu 14.04...looks great!

my mainboard (asus z87 plus) has two audio devices one analog and one hdmi, i am using both!

hdmi is intel gpu, if that matters

i have an hdmi cable going to a samsung 55" lcd (audio works in vlc)
i have a regular analog cable (RCA) to my desktop speakers (audio works for all desktop apps including kodi)

i went to settings->audio in kodi and selected the hdmi output for audio, but it still plays only on the desktop speakers, not thru hdmi audio?

i have tried both options in the settings and neither will output audio thru the hdmi cable to the lcd...
also looked over the wiki about pulse audio, but it seemed dated?

any ideas?

thanks

here is part of the kodi log

Quote: 02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Starting Kodi (14.0 Git:ad747d9). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Using Release Kodi x64 build
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Kodi compiled Dec 23 2014 by GCC 4.8.2 for Linux x86 64-bit version 3.13.11 (199947)
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Running on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 3.17.4-031704-generic
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: FFmpeg statically linked, version: 2.4.4-xbmc-2.4.4-Helix
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Host CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 4 cores available
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/share/kodi
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/lib/kodi
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /home/hammer/.kodi/userdata
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /home/hammer/.kodi
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /home/hammer/.kodi/temp
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Local hostname: DigiServer
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Log File is located: /home/hammer/.kodi/temp/kodi.log
02:54:10 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: load settings...
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Found 1 Lists of Devices
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Enumerated PULSE devices:
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Device 1
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_deviceName : Default
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_displayName : Default
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_displayNameExtra: Default Output Device (PULSEAUDIO)
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_deviceType : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_channels : FL,FR
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_sampleRates : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000,384000
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_dataFormats : AE_FMT_U8,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S24NE3,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_FLOAT
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Device 2
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_deviceName : alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_displayName : Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_displayNameExtra: Analog Output (PULSEAUDIO)
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_deviceType : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_channels : FL,FR
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_sampleRates : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000,384000
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_dataFormats : AE_FMT_U8,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S24NE3,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_FLOAT
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: Device 3
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_deviceName : alsa_output.pci-0000_00_03.0.hdmi-stereo-extra1
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_displayName : Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (HDMI)
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_displayNameExtra: HDMI / DisplayPort 2 (PULSEAUDIO)
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_deviceType : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_channels : FL,FR
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_sampleRates : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000,384000
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: m_dataFormats : AE_FMT_U8,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S24NE3,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_FLOAT
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
02:54:11 T:140416665401280 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)

The relevant lines of the log were cut, sadly.

Do the following: Set kodi to windowed, play something with the "default" device and while doing that change the device PA should use in KDE's mixer program. I think it's rooting it just back.

Pulseaudio wiki is fully uptodata, nothing dated there.

thanks, couldn't remember how to run in a window mode, but that did the trick
knew it was something simple!