2013-02-05, 06:38
(2013-02-03, 16:37)Angelscry Wrote:(2013-02-03, 09:26)gerner Wrote:This is how I have configured my linux system to have audio for applications started from XBMC Frodo. I'm using the Archlinux distribution, so I'm not sure this manipulation will be exactly the same for other distributions (Ubuntu, XBMCBuntu, Openelec, etc...). The main cause of the problem is that applications using pulseaudio (XBMC) and applications using ALSA (firefox, mednafen, etc...) cannot always play audio at the same time.(2013-01-27, 18:41)Angelscry Wrote: To be able to have sound with external application I think that you will have to waitthe release the final version of Frodo or use the stable version of XBMC (Eden).Hiya, just wondering if there are any fixes / workarounds for the issue with sound in external apps with Frodo? I'm using xbmcbuntu, attempting to launch skype but get no sound.
First you need to have ASLA and Pulseaudio packages installed on your system. This is the package I have installed on my systems :
alsa-firmware
alsa-lib
alsa-oss
alsa-utils
pulseaudio
pavucontrol
You have to check that the pulseaudio-alsa package is not installed on your system. If it is installed, just remove it.
Then you will have to edit the /etc/pulse/default.pa file.
First, found the lines refering to module-alsa-sink and module-alsa-source loading and edit them to indicated to use dmix and dsnoop parameters, like this :
Code:load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix
load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop
Then, found the lines refering to module-udev-detect and module-detect and comment them, like this :
Code:# load-module module-udev-detect
# load-module module-detect
Save the /etc/pulse/default.pa file and reboot your system.
Thanks!
I can confirm this works. I'm not a huge fan of pulseaudio, but this is a workaround.
You need to set your audio playback preferences in XBMC to pulseaudio.