random buzz noise

[morle4ever]

Hi guys,

I've been struggling with this for a while now. Long enough to make me create a new topic in the forum, since I couldn't find an answer searching for it.

I am gonna follow the example of another member and post a video here to show my problem.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjakL0qGX...e=youtu.be[/video]

This noise happens randomly during menu navigation or also randomly when starting a video file. Meaning before, the sound was working fine until at one point I am getting this noise. To get the sound working again, it usually helps to reboot.
As you can see in the video, when staying on a menu entry for a while and then skipping to the next, no sound is played (thus also no buzz). I am not sure about this, but I think this behaviour also happened on my system before I experienced the buzzing noise for the first time (maybe someone can confirm this on their system)
Also to say is that I got this noise effect on the last RC and now on the new release of 3.0. It just appeared from nowhere....

I am running my sound over a digital spdif output.

Can anybody provide me with some advice or similar experiences?

Regards,

Chris

[fritsch]

Does streaming silence improve it?

Code:

<advancedsettings>
<audio>
<streamsilence>1</streamsilence>
</audio>
</advancedsettings>

Must go to /storage/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

[morle4ever]

Hi there,

well, I must confess, I am not a linux user. What I am getting for that folder is this:



What to do when there is no advancedsettings.xml?

//edit: Alright, I guess the answer is: Just create the file! So that's what I did and now I will try as hard as I can to reproduce the noise. I will let you know if I think that it's fixed. Thanks so far!

[fritsch]

Reboot afterwards and check with:
cat /storage/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log that it was really loaded.

[morle4ever]

Yeah I did that:

22:33:18 T:139739316188992 NOTICE: Contents of special://profile/advancedsettings.xml are...
<advancedsettings>
<audio>
<streamsilence>1</streamsilence>
</audio>
</advancedsettings>

I guess I will wait and see now...