SPDIF headphones, no output

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#1

12.3 64bit

I have a set of wireless headphones and I am trying to connect them to my computer using optical (spdif). When I first plugged them in, I was using ALSA with pulsaudio disabled and I was able to get proper output from them. I then turned pulseaudio on, to see if they still worked. They did not, so I turned pulseaudio off, but now I cannot get any output from my headphones.

I tried playing with my .asoundrc file, but I did not help at all (probably because I have no clue what I was doing).

Here is my aplay -l output

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Thanks

#2

What DE are you using?
Can you provide more info of your machine?

#3

I am using kde 4.10.5, using my motherboard’s sound card. The headphones I am using are these. The transceiver looks a little bit different, but it should be similar. Sound works perfectly fine with my 3.5mm jack headphones. Let me know what else I need to let you guys know about my system

#4

As noted in thread https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/489372-Sound-goes-to-speakers-not-bluetooth-headphones

oldcpu
I would recommend you install and use the application ‘pavucontrol’ (pulse audio volume control) and with that application running, and when you are playing a multimedia file with a multimedia application, redirect the sound to the USB sound device (using pavucontrol).

I did that and found that in the pavu window when playing a file with VLC, on the Playback tab, beside the ALSA plug-in listing, there is a button that was on the built-in sound. Clicking the button gives a drop-down list that includes the bluetooth headphones as their name “AF32”. I clicked that, and there was sound.

The pavu window also had a configuration tab to switch the bluetooth profile to the A2DP setting that goes with these headphones.

I see you have spdif, not bluetooth, but pavucontrol should offer a similar fix for you.
Howard

#5

Thanks for the suggestion, installing pavucontrol and playing with the suggestions works. My system seems to try to add new input devices to my monitors soundcard.

However I now have another issue, whenever I start skype and try to play any sound, my audio just turns into intense buzzing and wont stop until I quit the program. Without pulseaudio skype works fine. Does skype not like to play with pulse audio?

#6

See https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Skype_Noise

Howard