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Has anyone got sound to work through XBMC with PulseAudio? I thought I would try it since something had broken with SPDIF output via ALSA.
All I've had is nightmares today getting PulseAudio working. No sounds play clicking through the menus, and my DVD ripped movies now come through as Dolby Digital - pretty sure they were something else before. Playback for most other media through XBMC is no longer working, e.g. HD DVB-T recordings with AAC/LATM and AC3 soundtracks.
From the log file there are a few logs about Input/Output error to the passthrough device. I think some of these issues are cropping up because PulseAudio does not support AC3 passthrough via SPDIF yet.
If anyone does have it working (including AC3 or any sort of surround sound playback), what settings are you using for your Audio Hardware in XBMC?
I'm running XFCE which posed some additional problems for getting PulseAudio to start.
Going back to ALSA for the moment, at least that has been working in the past.
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topfs2
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That switch does the opposite of what you believe
--disable-pulse will disable SUPPORT for pulseaudio, it will disable our native pulseaudio integration.
if you don´t specify --disable-pulse it will enable pulseaudio support, so if you want to use XBMC and PulseAudio then you dont use that switch
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After recompiling svn yesterday the last couple issues I was having with pulse are gone.
AKA no more sound/video bursts after a long pause. ^_^
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where do you find the svn?
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are the analog surround sound issues resolved in the SVN version?
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kipfel
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pulseaudio still doesn't work for me, with svn 17072.