[packman] Kodi 21 - crash

[Eric Schirra]

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