[Loekie]

Hey all,

When I move through the menus of xbmc, I've got navigation sounds.
But when I start play a mp3 or a movie I dont hear any sound.
I've tried all possible options in audio settings, but none seems to work.
Anyone got an idea what setting I need to look into to fix it?

Linux 2.6.35-25-server #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 19:09:14 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

XBMC 10.0 R35648

[Smagyarown]

Can you run movie or song outside of XBMC with sound?

[Loekie]

When I start a mp3 or movie with mplayer I've got sound.
Only when I start it in xbmc it says 'failed to initialize audio device'

[Smagyarown]

Not being very knowledgeable in Linux myself, I would approach this one step at a time. Having said that, you might want to check the default sound source in PulseAudio and make sure the sound card is the default. Also is your sound card the only one in your system? That is, is it one built into the motherboard, or is it a sound card that was added later?

[Loekie]

I've got multiple devices:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_intel8x0
1 snd_hda_intel

The one I want to use is onboard Intel ICH6.

[Smagyarown]

OK, see if you can make the default output be that particular card. It should stand as the default for all the apps in your system.

[Loekie]

Ok, I think that I've set the default.
In alsa-base.conf I've added
options snd_intel8x0 index=0
options snd_hda_intel index=1

Still the same problem with the sound.

[Loekie]

Ok I've solved it somehow.
I have removed xbmc completely. After that I just reinstalled it again and this time there where different sound options available and I selected 'internal audio analog stereo' and it worked right away...

Does anyone know which config files I need to save so in case of a next reinstall I dont need a week to fix it ?

[imho]

@Loekie

I had a similar problem when configuring analog sound in XBMCLive. Menu sounds worked fine, but there was no sound on file playback.

Found that it was down to audio configuration:

System > System > Audio output > Audio output device
I had it set to HDA Intel Defaults.
Setting to just Defaults has fixed the problem.

Here's a list of my devices. Hope that will shed some light on your problem.

sudo aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDAH Intel], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0