Kodi no sound (not muted)

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I am dual booting Antergos and newly installed Tumbleweed. I have Kodi on Antergos which runs with no problems but on Tumbleweed with the same settings I have no sound. Videos play fine via Totem & sound is fine on the net too.

Anyone got any ideas?

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Are you running the KDE or Gnome desktop (with pulse audio enabled) ?

If so, trying installing pavucontrol (pulse audio volume control) and check it to ensure that your application kodi is sending sound to the correct audio device.

pavucontrol allows one to control the output of an applications audio on an application/sound-device basis.

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Hi

Thanks for the reply. I am running Gnome (same as Antergos) & playing sound through my amplifier, so analogue not digital or via HDMI. Sound works on everything else, Totem, Firefox, even my game via Wine. Just nothing on Kodi.

Installed Pavcontrol & rechecked settings - still no sound :frowning:

Just installed VLC to pick up on any missed codecs. Still the same. Looks like I will have to try reinstalling Kodi & see if that works.

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I had that same problem a few weeks ago. I fixed it like this:

  1. I played a video
  2. IIRC there was a speaker icon with a line thru it in the upper right I clicked that until
  3. there was a box that showed up called Audio and Subtitle Settings
    4)move the top 2 sliders to the right until you hear something

Another time before (in 13.1)the incident above this was fixed by clicking the speaker icon at the bottom of Kodi’s screen when a vid is played and the mouse is hovered over the bottom. The same box showed up for me then.

Hope that works for ya

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hi

As I put in the subject line, it is not muted. I know that trick & it doesn’t change things :frowning:

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Tried reinstalling using Zypper instead of Yast but still same problem. I am now officially baffled. :frowning:

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Have you tried this:
KODI>System Settings>Audio Output>Audio Output Device
On my setup this reads Default Default Device(PULSEAUDIO)
When I click on that I see other audio devices available to me an HDMI system & an analog system.
Is it possible that your amplifier isn’t seen by Kodi (in Tumbleweed anyway) & this might work?

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I appreciate you trying. Thanks.

Yeah already tried this too & I have 3 options one being the Digital option which in the past has caused problems when it was selected by an app but not this time. Tried both the top - Default (Pulseaudio) & bottom option - Built in audio analog surround 5.0 line out (pulseaudio) & neither makes any difference :frowning:

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To be thorough in this approach - ensure you also remove and hidden configuration files.
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Seen this before. In most cases this arises when libs are installed from the openSUSE repos instead of Packman’s.
This fixes it


sudo zypper dup --from YOUR_PACKMAN_REPO_NAME_HERE

Or use Yast - Software - Software Management - View - Repos - Packman repo - “Switch system packages …”.

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OK a little help here please. Remember i’m new to OpenSuse. Using Yast I go through your steps & search Kodi then select VIEW - Repositories - find Kodi on the list - highlite it & click Switch but it brings up a window with Chromium options.

YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2016-01-20 21:19:31 ####

nothing provides chromium = 47.0.2526.111 needed by chromium-ffmpeg-47.0.2526.111-809.1.i586

 ] deinstallation of chromium-ffmpeg-47.0.2526.106-4.1.x86_64

 ] keep obsolete chromium-ffmpeg-47.0.2526.106-4.1.x86_64

 ] break chromium-ffmpeg-47.0.2526.111-809.1.i586 by ignoring some of its dependencies

What do I do?

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You cancel it all. I didn’t tell you to search for Kodi, the Yast route I wrote up is correct. But, we can do this through zypper:
Post output of

zypper lr
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It didn’t make a difference whether I followed your route or searched Kodi, it ended up at the same result - the Chromium screen.

Did your Zypper lr & still no change - no sound.:frowning:

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Well I just did a huge update & then rebooted and … still the same :frowning:

So I went back to that Chromium message when I followed the "Yast - Software - Software Management - View - Repos - Packman repo - “Switch system packages …”. instruction from Knurpht and thought as it was saying there was a conflict that I would choose the ] deinstallation of chromium-ffmpeg-47.0.2526.106-4.1.x86_64 option. It then downloaded a load of new options AND … KODI NOW WORKS :good::cool:

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Same problem and “fix” worked here… Just an effect of me not remembering the last step of the restricted formats guide… :slight_smile: