Orange Pi PC: no sound over HDMI in terminal

[ilyaigpetrov]

Armbianmonitor:

http://ix.io/2zGW

Device: Orange Pi PC.

Image: Armbian_20.08.1_Orangepipc_focal_current_5.8.5.img.

Issue:

No sound in the terminal when I run `sudo speaker-test` or `speaker-test` or if I launch kodi-gbm.

 

I have an old Armbian image with Linux 3.4.112-sun8i Ubuntu 16.04.7 Xenial, it has xfce desktop installed -- there if I set sndhdmi device as a fallback device then `speaker-test` plays fine.

I tried installing xfce and pulseaudio on this current Armbian Focal (not via arm-config, but via `apt install xorg xfce4 pulseaudio`) but in the audio settings there are only 2 devices both named "Built-in Audio Stereo" and setting any of them as a fallback doesn't produce sound over hdmi in the speaker-test.And I'm interested in sound in terminal and kodi-bgm, not xfce desktop.

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Codec [H3 Audio Codec], device 0: CDC PCM Codec-0 [CDC PCM Codec-0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sun8ih3hdmi [sun8i-h3-hdmi], device 0: 1c22800.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0 [1c22800.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

$ mpv --audio-device=help
List of detected audio devices:
  'auto' (Autoselect device)
  'pulse/alsa_output.platform-hdmi-sound.stereo-fallback' (Built-in Audio Stereo)
  'pulse/alsa_output.platform-1c22c00.codec.stereo-fallback' (Built-in Audio Stereo)
  'alsa' (Default (alsa))
  'alsa/samplerate' (Rate Converter Plugin Using Samplerate Library)
  'alsa/speexrate' (Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler)
  'alsa/jack' (JACK Audio Connection Kit)
  'alsa/oss' (Open Sound System)
  'alsa/upmix' (Plugin for channel upmix (4,6,8))
  'alsa/vdownmix' (Plugin for channel downmix (stereo) with a simple spacialization)
  'alsa/sysdefault:CARD=Codec' (H3 Audio Codec, CDC PCM Codec-0/Default Audio Device)
  'alsa/dmix:CARD=Codec,DEV=0' (H3 Audio Codec, CDC PCM Codec-0/Direct sample mixing device)
  'alsa/plughw:CARD=Codec,DEV=0' (H3 Audio Codec, CDC PCM Codec-0/Hardware device with all software conversions)
  'alsa/usbstream:CARD=Codec' (H3 Audio Codec/USB Stream Output)
  'alsa/sysdefault:CARD=sun8ih3hdmi' (sun8i-h3-hdmi, 1c22800.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0/Default Audio Device)
  'alsa/dmix:CARD=sun8ih3hdmi,DEV=0' (sun8i-h3-hdmi, 1c22800.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0/Direct sample mixing device)
  'alsa/plughw:CARD=sun8ih3hdmi,DEV=0' (sun8i-h3-hdmi, 1c22800.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0/Hardware device with all software conversions)
  'alsa/usbstream:CARD=sun8ih3hdmi' (sun8i-h3-hdmi/USB Stream Output)
  'jack' (Default (jack))
  'sdl' (Default (sdl))
  'sndio' (Default (sndio))

 

I tried different advice from different topics on this and other forums to no avail.

1) I tried adding my user to audio group (`sudo usermod -a -G audio <username>`).

2) I tried opening alsamixer and muting ("m" key) and unmuting line-in, line-out.

3) I tried adding and tweaking /etc/asound.conf.

[xwiggen]

did you try adding:

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

to /etc/asound.conf?

[ilyaigpetrov]

This produces no effect:

# cat << EOF > /etc/asound.conf
> defaults.pcm.card 1     
> defaults.ctl.card 1
> EOF                                   
# cat /etc/asound.conf 
defaults.pcm.card 1                                                             
defaults.ctl.card 1                                                             
# speaker-test

 

 

@xwiggen

# cat /etc/asound.conf 
pcm.!default {
        type hw
        card 1
}
ctl.!default {
        type hw
        card 1
}
# speaker-test 

speaker-test 1.2.2

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Channels count (1) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument
Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument

# Changing `card 1` to `card 0` produces no sound.
# Adding `device 0` or `device 1` doesn't help also.
# cat /etc/asound.conf 
pcm.!default {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 0
}
ctl.!default {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 0
}
# speaker-test
# No sound.

 

[ilyaigpetrov]

Here is armbianmonitor for Armbian Xenial (xfce, pulseaduio) where hdmi works:  http://ix.io/2AcT.

Here is armbianmonitor for Armbian Focal (terminal, no pulseaduio) where hdmi doesn't work:  http://ix.io/2AcU.

[ning]

the simple way:

install pulseaudio

 

mpv -ao pulse xxx.mp3

[ilyaigpetrov]

On 11/2/2020 at 4:04 AM, ning said:

the simple way:

install pulseaudio

 

mpv -ao pulse xxx.mp3

Thanks for you reply, @ning, but unfortunately it doesn't work:

ilyaigpetrov@orangepipc:~$ mpv --ao=pulse ./foobar.mp3 
 (+) Audio --aid=1 (mp3 2ch 48000Hz)
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float
A: 00:00:00 / 01:20:04 (0%)

No sound is heard. And it freezes at 00:00:00 and 0% not moving any further.

I used `sudo apt install pulseaudio` for installing pulseaudio.