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I am running Ubuntu 9.04 and XBMC 9.04.1 build 20654. I can listen to mp3 and internet radio fine. When I play any videos (ones that have worked in the past) they play fine except for the fact that the audio tone is too low. Any ideas?
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EMK0
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umm how can you tell if xbmc is using pulseaduio? is this something u set when building xbmc or you have to do something to your linux?
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Pulseaudio support gets compiled in if it's desired (configure switch) or detected at ./configure time. So either you ditch pulseaudio from the system or recompile (if you have compiled yourself actually) with --disable-pulse (IIRC). Pulseaudio seems to be to blame for most of xbmc's audio issues.
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I've been experiencing a similar thing with ALSA and digital-out over SPDIF.
The output sound level from the amp seems similar between normal broadcast FM radio received directly by the amp and Music played through XBMC via SPDIF.
Movies and Videos in general seem a bit quieter than Music though needing the Sony amp wound up another 5-10 clicks to get a similar sound level. It's comfortable listening to the Amp at 30 for Music. Routinely the amp volume gets into the 40s though when watching movies to get a good sound level.
Most of the content we watch has AC3 for audio. Similar lower noise level has been observed with other varied audio codecs as well. Not sure if the codec would affect anything though.
