Kodi Audio Problems after recent update

rudy-in · June 30, 2024, 10:21am

do you have anything like alsamixer or pavucontrol?

joekamprad · June 30, 2024, 10:23am

First thing to check is always pavuconrol
go to configuration tab and disable (set to ff) all unused devices only set the one you want to use to a profile.

you can also try to output to all devices simultaneously:
pactl load-module module-combine-sink
this only is enabled for the running session to test indeed…

rudy-in · June 30, 2024, 10:24am

do you have like pulseaudio and pipewire running at the same time?

joekamprad · June 30, 2024, 10:28am

is installed thats the support wrapper for running pulseaudio things piped to pipewire…

joekamprad · June 30, 2024, 10:29am

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/audio/pipewire/2021/09/

pactl info

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.0.7)

astspikey · June 30, 2024, 10:35am

In that drop down menu, I only see that I can select (change) the profile - not disable or enable

joekamprad · June 30, 2024, 10:36am

can you show shot?
and post the output for your pactl info

astspikey · June 30, 2024, 10:39am

$ pactl info
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 247
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: htpc
Host Name: HTPC
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.2.0)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor
Cookie: 2609:6afb

joekamprad · June 30, 2024, 10:43am

So you want to put out audio to the HDMI audio on a Display ?
If that set the profile to the first profile there: “Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output”
And set the Profile for the Built-In device to “Off”

astspikey · June 30, 2024, 10:46am

With you - this was always, and has always been the case.
Apologies, I didn’t understand what you meant.

joekamprad · June 30, 2024, 10:53am

i would check audio settings ion kodi too it does not use the same as you set in kde per example … but not sure about kodi anway… i can check

joekamprad · June 30, 2024, 10:57am

and in case check if there are updates we just get nvidia 555 in thats including a lot of changes…

astspikey · June 30, 2024, 11:37am

Kodi has Pipewire and whatever I set as my default. I.e. GPU HDMI to display.

Both exhibit the same behaviour I’ve described.

All of these problems began after installation of the 555 drivers.

I don’t know if It was caused by them, or something else that yay updated at the same time.

chalex20 · June 30, 2024, 5:00pm

Same here with Kodi. The problem is clearly a regression (or a misfeature) in getting exclusive access to device in Pipewire 1.2.0.

astspikey · June 30, 2024, 9:27pm

Possibly related to this:

This sounds very similar to my experience

astspikey · July 1, 2024, 11:48pm

I’m trying to get back to a stable version of pipewire, but sudo downgrade pipewire won’t let me go back due a libcamera dependency.

Is there a way to successfully downgrade?

Jonodros · July 2, 2024, 12:49pm

I see you are also using Kodi. The recent update to pipewire 1.2.0 introduced massive audio distortion and crackling in general along with complete audio loss after running Kodi on my system as well. After struggling and pulling my hair out for 3 days it seems there is still no fix:

github.com/xbmc/xbmc

Pipewire update breaks working applications

opened 02:04PM - 30 Jun 24 UTC

closed 05:07PM - 01 Jul 24 UTC

Snxrre

Triage: Needed

## Bug report ### Describe the bug Here is a clear and concise description of …what the problem is: When playing video files, Kodi kills the entire systems sound output on all output devices until logging out or rebooting. On local files this happens as soon as the video ends, on internet streams it happens as soon as playback starts. kodi is otherwise fully fuctional. the sound isn't just gone from Kodi, my entire PC is unable to output sound until restarted. Closing Kodi doesn't bring the audio back. ## Expected Behavior Here is a clear and concise description of what was expected to happen: Kodi plays sound along side the video. My system plays sound through the connected speakers. After a video end, my system and Kodi are still able to play sound. ## Actual Behavior Kodi play sound for the duration of the video, then stops playing sound. Spotify and other applications also stop playing sound at the same time. The pc needs to be restarted in order to play sound again. Edit: sometimes it just happens for no reason, without playing a file at all. ## Possible Fix No idea. it did however work until yesterday evening, so it is probably related to the newest update. ### To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Install Kodi 2. Run Kodi 3. Select a Video Source 4. Play a Video 5. Watch your entire systems sound disappear ### Debuglog The debuglog can be found here: https://paste.kodi.tv/biwoyuzolo.kodi ### Screenshots Here are some links or screenshots to help explain the problem: ## Additional context or screenshots (if appropriate) Here is some additional context or explanation that might help: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/25398 Seems to be the same issue, just not well reported. Issue hasn't affected me majorly, except for spending another afternoon trying to fix Kodi. I was trying to accomplish watching an episode of a TV show that i have been watching for the past few months without issue. ### Your Environment Used Operating system: - [ ] Android - [ ] iOS - [ ] tvOS - [x] Linux - [ ] macOS - [ ] Windows - [ ] Windows UWP Linux EndeavourOS (Arch Based) AwesomeWM as Window Manager Linux 6.9.7-arch1-1 Kernel X11 Display Server My hardware should be Good enough, i have an older i7 cpu and a 4070 Nvidia gpu. - Operating system version/name: EndeavourOS - Kodi version: 21.0-6 Let me know if any info is missing, ill try my best to provide it. Thanks for your time. *note: Once the issue is made we require you to update it with new information or Kodi versions should that be required. Team Kodi will consider your problem report however, we will not make any promises the problem will be solved.*

I tried all existing fixes on Arch wiki and tried LTS kernel but no luck. Downgrade also didn’t work for me (which is a first):

sudo downgrade pipwire pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse alsa-card-profiles

Admittedly I left out alsa-card-profiles when I downgraded but maybe it works for someone else. I called it a day and restored to a previous snapshot from 29 June that still had pipewire 1.0.7-2.
Whats going on with all the regressions and other issues surrounding pipewire lately? This is worse than the GRUB issue from a few years ago IMO.

Jonodros · July 2, 2024, 5:56pm

Configuring Kodi to use an external player results in the same audio issues.
https://kodi.wiki/view/External_players#VLC

Playing files directly with VLC works however.

If anyone uses the flatpak version, please say if you also experience same audio issues.

EDIT: Still experiencing distortion and crackling on VLC when playing files directly, however it doesn’t cut out entire system audio like with Kodi.

spontex · July 4, 2024, 12:09pm

Hi,
Same here, everything was working, and since the last update (for me yesterday morning) the sound is messed up. I ended up stopping running Kodi automatically at startup, and playing videos with VLC.
The problem that I had: sometimes the PC was competely losing sound and I had to restart. This sometimes was only under Kodi, and notably happened with other apps, for exemple when switching between Kodi and Firefox.
I understand this should be solved by this commit:

How to get it?
Thanks

ncdc · July 6, 2024, 9:16pm

I had the same issue after update weekend of 6/29/2024. Two separate (older)laptops, 1 with nvidia GPU and the other has integrated graphics. Had to rollback to 6/28 to get audio working normally.
sudo eos-shifttime
If the roll back causes a non-working system, you may have to reinstall