Bug#775756: -ao pulse stopped producing audio; alsa and oss still work

[Felipe Sateler]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:14:16AM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Am Dienstag, den 20.01.2015, 10:11 -0300 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
>> >> Pulseaudio remembers where a stream was playing to last time, and
>> >> plugs the stream there.
>> >
>> > But then PA should be smart enough to realize when the device isn't even
>> > connected anymore.
>>
>> Define enough ;). As far as I can tell, pulseaudio does detect if the
>> hdmi device is plugged or not. However, behavior is a bit strange
>> because different logic applies at different times.
>>
>> I'm guessing the problem here is that module-stream-restore is
>> detecting it already knows about mplayer2, so it will move that stream
>> to the hdmi device. However, being unplugged does not mean the HDMI
>> device disappears (in cards where the hdmi device is a separate
>> device). Therefore, silence.
>
> If it helps: snd_hda_codec_hdmi.
>
> At least in the PulseAudio control panel, the HDMI audio device did not
> show up while I was observing the problem with mplayer2 not producing
> audio output.

Please attach a verbose log of pulseaudio[1] while reproducing the
problem, plus the output of `pactl list`

If the device is not showing up in pavucontrol, then this would be
indeed a bug in pulseaudio.


[1] wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler