Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2024, 14:30:57 CEST schrieb Manfred Hollstein: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2024, 14:08:29 +0200, Eric Schirra wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2024, 13:32:14 CEST schrieb Manfred Hollstein: > > > I just installed a new machine with Leap 15.5 and did not block pipewire > > > > > > this time. Still Pulseaudio appears to be the default sound server: > > > $ pacmd info > > > ... > > > Name des Servers: pulseaudio > > > > > > Still Kodi wants to use pipewire by default if it finds it installed. > > > > > > kodi --help tells us the following: > > > --audio-backend=<backend> Select which audio backend to use. > > > > > > Available audio backends are: alsa, pipewire, > > > > > > pulseaudio, alsa+pulseaudio > > > > > > Starting kodi with the argument "--audio-backend=pulseaudio" results in > > > PulseAudio being used as the sound interface and sound works again. > > > > > > I deliberately refused to get pipewire installed on my normal systems > > > due to my special use-cases, but here either activating pipewire at the > > > OS level, or specifying the audio backend to be used should be the way > > > to go. > > > > > > I'll open an issue at Kodi's github that Kodi should not just blindly > > > select the preferred audio backend, but rather take a look at e.g. > > > "pacmd info"'s output... > > > > Very nice. > > That's how I see it too. > > Then my, let's say, not letting up, has something good after all. :-) > > Because even if that would work as a parameter, I don't think it's a good > > idea. There are also many people who don't know their way around the > > console. Or don't want to use it in this case. > > I just installed a completely new Tumbleweed system with pipewire > included, followed by the usual updates from Packman and then Kodi. > Pipewire apparently has been setup properly on Tumbleweed and sound in > Kodi works out of the box. > > To me it looks like a bug in Leap's offering to install pipewire via > updates, but to omit the required pipewire-pulseaudio. When you install > that package on Leap 15.5 manually, your pulseaudio gets replaced by the > pipewire infrastructure and Kodi also works. To me2, I still don't like > pipewire which is why I still block pipewire and wireplumber from > getting installed.
Unfortunately, this is not a solution for. I don't want pipewire because it doesn't run without errors and causes problems elsewhere. > > Let's see what comes of it. > > I doubt they'll accept that issue due to Leap not setting up pipewire > properly... Upstream does not use Pipewire itself! They also use pulseaudio in their official flatpack! Gruß Eric _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] https://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
