[Bug 1030] Review request: xbmc - Media center
http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030
--- Comment #23 from Alex Lancaster <alexl(a)users.sourceforge.net> 2010-01-14
11:01:58 ---
(In reply to comment #22)
> What do mean "not working"?
Different kinds of audio related issues.
From xbmc issueing "failed to initialize audio device" messages, over
"being
unable to control audio volume" to always "full volume"/"very low
volume".
What exactly happens seems to be machine-, account- and
xbmc-built/version/patch dependent.
AFAIU, xbmc in a standalone-session tries to use alsa => I am
likely facing the
zoo of problems related to initializing alsa.
Yes, it does seem a little flaky, alsa not sure if pulseaudio is working.
> Does the script not run?
The script tries to launch pulseaudio and then to fallback to "native xbmc" if
pulseaudio is not available, using "pulse-session".
pulse-session doesn't exist under Fedora
=> xbmc-standalone always falls back to using "native xbmc".
=> If we indent to always use pulse-audio, this script needs to be modified.
May-be something along the lines of:
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog --use-pid-file
/usr/bin/xbmc -fs --standalone "$@"
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --kill --use-pid-file
I am not sure.
If you've got some specific patches, sure, let's put them in.
> Are you referring maybe to the /usr/share/xsessions/XBMC.desktop
functionality
> where it launches an entire session from GDM?
Yes, this is what I am referring to.
> xbmc-standalone, the binary
> seems to work at least.
Well, not for me:
Testcase: Reboot into GDM; login into an xbmc-session; try to play an audio
file.
On one machine this appears to work, on another one I am receiving "failed to
initialize audio device" warnings or am unable to control the audio volume.
What exactly happens seems to depend upon the account I using to launch such an
xbmx-session. On freshly created accounts, I am receiving "faild to initialize
audio device", on previously used accounts, I typically end up with sound but
without ability to control the audio volume.
I haven't tried using the XBMC.xsession feature from GDM to start
xbmc-standalone. I simply use a regular GDM login and have it use an
~/.xsession file which starts the fvwm window manager and then start
xbmc-standalone on top of that. This is because I switch between apps and
starting xbmc-standalone directly from GDM would mean that the whole session
would end when xbmc-standalone ends. "Working" for me, simply means that
xbmc-standalone works.
A lot of these issues are probably upstream issues that need trac bugs, I
guess. We can fix what we can as far as packaging goes, especially any
Fedora-specific mods, but for general bugs, we will probably have to rely on
working with upstream. I have noticed a general dislike of pulseaudio and XBMC
on some of the IRC channels and forums, not sure if this is shared by the devs
concerned or not.
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