Own build with Pulse Audio leading to no Audio

[And1G]

Hello,

I set up an HTPC with AMD A4-5300 and an Asus Xonar DX Sound Card. With the standard image downloaded here everything is OK. But since I want to use PulseAudio for easy streaming of Multicast/RTP I can not use this.
So I tried to set up my own build:

First, I copied the Fusion project to FusionPulse, and in the options file I changed PULSEAUDIO_SUPPORT to "yes".

Then:

Code:

git clone git://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv.git
git checkout openelec-3.0
PROJECT=FusionPulse ARCH=x86_64 make -j8

The build ran fine and the image was installed correctly.
But there was no Audio in XBMC. I tried all the settings for audio but nothing worked.
Playing a file with aplay over ssh was successful, so I think the audio configuration is correct.

I looked through the bugtracker and several closed bugs regarding Pulse Audio leaded me to the conclusion that it is possible to use Pulse Audio.
Is there anything I have missed there?

[fritsch]

Not our bug - obviously yours.

[And1G]

That's about the answer I expected, but do you have any clue what I have done wrong?

[fritsch]

Yes.

pulse integration is not easy. For xbmc to use plain pulse (without the alsa libasound2-plugins), you have to build xbmc with --enable-pulse e.g. remove the --disable-pulse flag, to get any sound device listed.

[fritsch]

But - cannot say from here, even don't know how you integrated it. make sure pa daemon is running and so on - sorry we cannot support custom version, that fail with the integration.

[And1G]

In the Sound Settings of XBMC I had all the Sound devices available.
The list was something like Pulse Audio (Standard), Pulse Audio (Xonar) etc. so XBMC seemed to be built with Pulse Audio Support.

The way I integrated Pulse Audio in my build was described in the first post. I created a new project and set the variable to yes.

[fritsch]

Logfile please. See if pamixer is included and not muted.

[fritsch]

In general it should work, i made some fixes to it myself, so last time I tested - all was "great". Implementation is rather basic for now, basically one sink and that was it - passthrough could get problematic.

[And1G]

Here is the XBMC log of openElec starting up, clicking through the audio devices and then playing an audio file: http://pastebin.com/pZw6t7aq

There are some lines regarding PulseAudio:

22:22:41 T:140086199695168 DEBUG: CNFSFile::Open - opened srv/nfs/Musik/Die Toten Hosen/1990 - Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück/Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück.flac
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 DEBUG: CNFSFile::Close closing file srv/nfs/Musik/Die Toten Hosen/1990 - Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück/Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück.flac
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 INFO: AudioDecoder: File is queued
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 DEBUG: PulseAudio: Stream ready
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 INFO: PulseAEStream::Initialized
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 INFO: Sample Rate : 44100
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 INFO: Sample Format : AE_FMT_S16NE
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 INFO: Channel Count : 2
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 INFO: Channel Layout: FL,FR
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 INFO: Frame Size : 4
22:22:41 T:140086199695168 INFO: Cache Size : 4194304

...

22:24:41 T:140085970990848 WARNING: PulseAudio: Stream underflow

I can't find pamixer but with the alsamixer addon I see a "sound card" named PulseAudio which has one colume control which is set to 100% and not muted. The real soundcard is also present as a device.
I don't need Pass Through, just analog 5.1 output.

If you need any additional information I will try my best to provide. I really like the idea of such a simple media center distribution like openELEC because it makes life so much easier than setting up such an environment with a custom created linux.

[fritsch]

Try something different than flac, e.g. mp3. Also set your speaker numbers to 2.0 - just for testing. And post xbmc.log in a separate pastebin. Don't cut things you don't find important.