[LINUX] Ubuntu PulseAudio Sound Issues

[sparkie]

Here is some reading material if you've upgraded to Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=866965

[althekiller]

Nice find, there's also a link in the first post to similar for 8.04. To all those with alsa errors in your logs, check this out.

[s7mx1]

Pulse audio is no longer an issue after the developer decided to downmix the 5.1 audio to 2 channels by default in video playing.

To set up put the following into the system wide configuration file /etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default {
type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
type pulse
}

pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}


The xbmc client and pulseaudio server in my setup are both running the 8.10 with unmodified pulseaudio package.

I am more than happy to see the changes as now I can streaming the audio to the my centralised pulseaudio server.

[LAW-Mastermind]

WOOT? 5.1 is downmixed to 2 channels? Alway or just if you use Pulseaudio? How can i enable 5.1?

[s7mx1]

Originally Posted by LAW-Mastermind

WOOT? 5.1 is downmixed to 2 channels? Alway or just if you use Pulseaudio? How can i enable 5.1?

SPDIF passthrough will always give you 5.1 I would guess.

[vajonam]

I've tried all that, the playback still eventually freezes. when i hit x to stop the plyaback XBMC freezes until i kill -9 on pulseaudio

does any one else have this working? on intrepid?

[LAW-Mastermind]

I´m using xbmc together with 8.10 , i made a script to startup

pulseaudio -k
xbmc

[kipfel]

Is XBMC going to support pulseaudio in the near future? Because i can't get my surround sound to work in XBMC.

[vajonam]

I find if do the kill pulseaudio trick, then my menu sounds dont work, but movie audio works okay. do you menu navigation sounds still work?

[eversmann]

For the, everything works (even the sound "ticks" in the menu) when i kill pulseaudio. So the script:
pulseaudio -k
sleep 2
xbmc
pulseaudio -D

works great ;-)