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teddy
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Hi,
After installing the XBMC 12.3 update I lost audio output. I am using HDMI audio on my NVIDIA GFX card for audio output, and the output device was HDA Nvidia, HDMI #4 (i also got #1 - #3) on XBMC 12.2. After installing 12.3 i only got HDA Nvidia, HDMI #1 - #3, #4 is gone. I saw something about audio updates in the new XBMC 12 version, seems like one of these updates has broken xbmc on my setup.
I have checked in console and I can still find all audio devices there, but when checking the xbmc log I can only see that it enumerates HDA Nvidia, HDMI #1 - #3, #4 is not listed.
Could this be a index - 1 typo in one of the audio patches?
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fritsch
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sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio libasound2-plugins
sudo reboot
now redo the sound configuration.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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fritsch
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pulseaudio heavily interfers with xbmc audio. If you really need to run it. Choose "Pulse Audio Server" as your output device and set channel numbers to 2.0 Don't activate passthrough.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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2013-12-26, 14:36
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-26, 14:37 by rodercot.)
pulse removal worked for me. 12-2 to 12.3 upgrade via team-xbmc ppa. I also had not updated my system in a while, I updated to latest kernel image and nvida-current from xswat prior to upgrading to 12.3 and that may have had something to cause my problem but any lightdm workarounds did not work for me. I also noticed that some of my stored blurays are now working which had problems in 12.2 from my nas. Not sure if this was fixed from 12.2 to 12.3 or removal of pulse but thanks to Fritsch for the fix. I just hope my resume is now fixed as well; a quick suspend - resume cycle shows promise but it usually takes longer than 30 minutes to happen.
rgds,
Dave
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2013-12-28, 23:34
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-29, 00:04 by Masher.)
Another Solution besides deinstalling pulseaudio would be to just stop the service with
sudo service pulseaudio stop
If you mainly use your machine for xbmc, but sometimes use the desktop too, you can
disable autostart of pulseaudio at system startup with
sudo update-rc.d -f pulseaudio remove
then if you need sound on your desktop just start it by hand with
sudo service pulseaudio start
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when i log on with ssh and type it i get this
media@xbmc:~$ sudo service pulseaudio stop
[sudo] password for media:
stop: Unknown instance:
media@xbmc:~$ sudo update-rc.d -f remove pulseaudio
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/remove: file does not exist