Yavdr ansible with Ubuntu 20.04 no sound [FIXED]

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I have been using VDR and YaVDR (0.6) since 2005 and am trying to build a fresh install on top of Ubuntu Server 20.04. I have used the ansible installer (git clone https://github.com/yavdr/yavdr-ansible) on a system which has a TT-budget-S1500 and an Nvidia GeForce GT 530. To test the hardware, I previously did a fresh YaVDR-0.6 installation - and everything works fine.

Since I installed Server 20.04 and Yavdr via Ansible, I can't get any audio working through the HDMI or the motherboard ports.

'speaker-test' works, on the front speaker ports, but I can't get any VDR audio working.

vdruser@ubuntu2020:~$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

But in VDR I get this error on pulseaudio:

svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol list-devices

220 ubuntu2020 SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 2.4.6; Mon Jan 18 19:09:42 2021; UTF-8

550 error -4

221 ubuntu2020 closing connection

Also (second question) is it possible to get the web configuration front end, like came with yavdr-0.6, working? There's a control in there which allows selection of the audio output - and I can't work out how to do that manually.

Can anyone help me please?

Hi - thanks for the reply

I added the asound.conf - but still no sound.

Also, I'm not running vdr as root:

systemctl start vdr

ps -ef | grep '/usr/bin/vdr'

root 820 1 0 19:50 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/vdr-update-monitor

root 1058 1 0 19:50 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/vdr-net-monitor

vdr 1302 1 10 19:53 ? 00:00:04 /usr/bin/vdr

root 1342 1235 0 19:54 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto /usr/bin/vdr

I am also getting pulse and alsa errors in the logs:

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1413] starting plugin: pulsecontrol

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1413] loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/pulsecontrol/startup.script

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1413] pulsecontrol: executing startup.script

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1413] pulsecontrol: mainloop started

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1425] live: INFO: attempt to listen on ip = '0.0.0.0'

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr[1413]: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/666//pulse): No such file or directory

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1413] pulsecontrol: pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1413] pulsecontrol: mainloop stopped

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1413] pulsecontrol: startup script error -4

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1413] starting plugin: softhddevice

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: audio: 'alsa' output module used

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr[1413]: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/666//pulse): No such file or directory

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1425] live: ERROR: Unable to load cert/key (/var/lib/vdr/plugins/live/live.pem//var/lib/vdr/plugins/live/live-key.pem): No such file or directory

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr[1413]: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/666//pulse): No such file or directory

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: audio/alsa: playback open 'default' error: Connection refused

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1421] dbus2vdr: System: connected with unique name :1.81

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1421] dbus2vdr: thread-pool for handling signal-emits started

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 avahi-linker[809]: 2021-01-18 19:56:26,595 INFO VDR started

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr[1413]: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/666//pulse): No such file or directory

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: audio/alsa: can't open mixer 'default'

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: audio: 44100Hz supports 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 channels

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: audio: 48000Hz supports 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 channels

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: audio: 192000Hz supports 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 channels

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 automount[778]: create_client: hostname lookup for ubuntu failed: Temporary failure in name resolution

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 automount[778]: get_exports: lookup(hosts): exports lookup failed for ubuntu

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 automount[778]: key "ubuntu" not found in map source(s).

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1414] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=1413, tid=1414)

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: VDPAU API version: 1

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: VDPAU information: NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 390.141 Mon Dec 28 16:13:07 UTC 2020

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: highest supported high quality scaling 1

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: feature deinterlace temporal supported

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: feature deinterlace temporal spatial supported

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: attribute skip chroma deinterlace supported

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: 4:2:0 chroma format with 4096x4096 supported

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: 4:2:2 chroma format with 4096x4096 supported

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: 8bit BGRA format with 16384x16384 supported

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: 10bit RGBA format with 16384x16384 supported

Jan 18 19:56:26 ubuntu2020 vdr: video/vdpau: created osd output surface 1920x1080 with id 0x00000009

Jan 18 19:56:27 ubuntu2020 vdr: [softhddev] ready

Zitat von 9000H

Hi,

create a /etc/asound.conf

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Code

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
    # If defaults.namehint.showall is set to off in alsa.conf, then this is
    # necessary to make this pcm show up in the list returned by
    # snd_device_name_hint or aplay -L
    hint.description "Default Audio Device"
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}

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and do not run VDR as root.

CU

9000h

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Zitat von davie2000

You can activate pulseaudio via OSD-settings, if I remember correctly.

And unfortunately the Webif, we know from yaVDR 0.6, is not finished now.

OK - thanks regarding Webif.

When I try to activate pulseaudio via OSD (such as "set default sink") I get "error -4 on querying sinks".

I also get this error on svdrpsend:

root@ubuntu2020:/home/vdruser# svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol list-sinks

220 ubuntu2020 SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 2.4.6; Mon Jan 18 20:02:29 2021; UTF-8

550 error -4

221 ubuntu2020 closing connection

Zitat von 9000H

Hi,

pulsecontrol: pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

you may need to add the user vdr to group pulse-access

CU

9000h

Something weird is going on

I added user vdr to the pulse-access group:

audio:x:29:pulse,vdruser

pulse:x:121:vdruser,vdr

pulse-access:x:122:vdruser,vdr

But am still getting:

Jan 19 08:52:15 ubuntu2020 vdr: [1852] pulsecontrol: pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

and

Jan 19 08:52:15 ubuntu2020 vdr: audio/alsa: playback open 'default' error: Connection refused

Zitat von lnj

Try use alsa directly

-a hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 -p hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

Sorry for the question, but it's been a long time since I manually updated VDR start options. How do I select these options for startup, under yavdr?

Not in /etc/default/vdr? Which just has:

#

# *** ANSIBLE MANAGED FILE ***

# template: /home/vdruser/yavdr-ansible/roles/vdr/templates/default_vdr.j2

#

# /etc/default/vdr

#

# See also /usr/share/doc/vdr/README.Debian.gz

#

SHUTDOWNCMD="poweroff"

Zitat von seahawk1986

Are there any specialities in your Ubuntu installation or configuration? Is /run a tmpfs?

Code

mount | grep /mnt

Please try to connect to the vdr user session and check why pulseaudio fails to run properly:

Code

sudo tmux -S /tmp/tmux-666/default
systemctl --user mask --now --runtime pulseaudio.service
pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -vvv

There's no other /mnt:

root@ubuntu2020:~# mount | grep /mnt

root@ubuntu2020:~#

also, there's no /tmp/tmux-666:

root@ubuntu2020:~# ls /tmp/

pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n

snap.lxd

systemd-private-0e1f37858eeb4305b9254ae6e2d3b315-systemd-logind.service-YI5OGg

systemd-private-0e1f37858eeb4305b9254ae6e2d3b315-systemd-resolved.service-MJ75Bg

systemd-private-0e1f37858eeb4305b9254ae6e2d3b315-systemd-timesyncd.service-HZi8Kf

tmux-0

root@ubuntu2020:~#

But I did try testing starting 'pulseaudio -vvv' (as root) and the HDMI card is there:

D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra3 becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.

D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.

D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.iec958-stereo becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.

Attached is the log of that test as root.

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There's no other /mnt:

root@ubuntu2020:~# mount | grep /mnt

root@ubuntu2020:~#

also, there's no /tmp/tmux-666:

root@ubuntu2020:~# ls /tmp/

pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n

snap.lxd

systemd-private-0e1f37858eeb4305b9254ae6e2d3b315-systemd-logind.service-YI5OGg

systemd-private-0e1f37858eeb4305b9254ae6e2d3b315-systemd-resolved.service-MJ75Bg

systemd-private-0e1f37858eeb4305b9254ae6e2d3b315-systemd-timesyncd.service-HZi8Kf

tmux-0

root@ubuntu2020:~#

I tried testing starting 'pulseaudio -vvv' (as root) and the HDMI card is there:

D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra3 becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.

D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.

D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.iec958-stereo becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.

Attached is the log of that test as root ('pulseaudio as root.txt').

re-ran 'sudo -H ./install-yavdr.sh' with no errors.

added "-a hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 -p hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3" to 50-softhddevice.conf

All working perfectly now.

Thanks for all your help!!

Zitat von seahawk1986

yavdr-ansible uses the ARGSDIR method to pass start arguments to the vdr process. If the vdr is started without arguments (this happens in the vdr.service systemd unit), it will read .conf files in /etc/vdr/conf.d/ in lexical order (therefore a numeric prefix can be used to change the loading priority) and apply their settings. For plugins the actual configuration files are stored in /etc/vdr/conf.avail/ and a symlink to /etc/vdr/conf.d/ is created during installation. Deleting resp. adding symlinks can be used to disable resp. enable Plugins.

The syntax is as follows: the name of the plugin or vdr in square brackets (in case of a plugin this causes the plugin to be loaded) and after that one start argument per line (if needed) - e.g.:

Code: /etc/vdr7conf.d/50-softhddevice.conf

[softhddevice]
-D
-a hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 -p hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

There is a tool called vdrctl to list and manage those configuration files.

vdrctl list will show the enabled and disabled plugins. vdrctl enable $PLUGIN resp. vdrctl disable $PLUGIN

adds resp. removes the symlinks from /etc/vdr/conf.avail/ to /etc/vdr/conf.d/ .

To edit the file with the set $EDITOR environment variable (defaults to nano) you can use sudo vdrctl edit softhddevice.

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One more question.

I've edited 50-softhddevice.conf with 'sudo vdrctl edit softhddevice' and modified the '-a' and '-p' settings.

When I reboot - the audio hasn't changed to HDMI (still coming from analog audio). I need to either 'sudo systemctl restart vdr' from the command line or from the Commands menu in VDR.

How do I make the change persistent after a reboot?

Zitat von seahawk1986

The intended way (which allows to configure the audio output using the vdr OSD) is to use pulseaudio (which claims exclusive access to the sound devices on startup, so alsa can't use them) via pulseaudio's alsa plugin - you can either use the pulsecontrol plugin or pavucontrol (which can be started via Applications->Multimedia->PulseAudio VolumeControl) to set the output to HDMI stereo (with this setting pulseaudio should also be able to pass through Bitstream formats: https://kodi.wiki/view/PulseAudio#Passthrough_Mode).

There is also an (somewhat experimental) setting for the frontend script that allows to suspend pulseaudio if the vdr frontend is used - change the variableuse_pasuspend for the softhddevice output plugin in /etc/yavdr-frontend/config.yml to True and restart the yavdr-frontend service within vdr's systemd user session (or reboot the system).

OK - I'm understanding more now.

I have configured it using the pulseaudio plugin (which also reflects the same configuration in pavucontrol from the Multimedia menu).

But the same issue persists. After a reboot, I need to use vdr's systemd 'VDR neu starten' (or systemctl restart vdr from shell) to get audio working.

I've found a few other permutations:

Reboot system - no HDMI audio

'VDR neu starten' from VDR menu - audio via HDMI starts working
Run Kodi from the menu - has audio via HDMI. Kodi audio output device "Default, Default Output Device (PULSEAUDIO)

Exit Kodi back to VDR - NO audio via HDMI

'VDR neu starten' from VDR menu - audio via HDMI working again

Applications>PulseVolumeControl, "GF108 High Definition Audio Port:HDMI / DisplayPort 4 (plugged in).

Exit pavucontrol back to VDR - NO audio via HDMI

'VDR neu starten' from VDR menu - audio via HDMI working again

Any ideas?? Seems like a back-end / front-end (reattach) problem?

below are the pulsecontrol plugin's outputs - these outputs are identical after reboot, or after a 'VDR neu starten':

Cards:

vdruser@ubuntu2020:~$ svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol LCRD

220 ubuntu2020 SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 2.4.6; Thu Jan 21 08:34:24 2021; UTF-8

900-card 1: alsa_card.pci-0000_00_14.2

900- name: HDA ATI SB

900- desc: Built-in Audio

900- port 8500: analog-input-front-mic (unavailable)

900- port 8200: analog-input-rear-mic (unavailable)

900- port 8100: analog-input-linein (unavailable)

900- port 0: iec958-stereo-input (unplugged)

900- port 9000: analog-output-lineout (plugged in)

900- port 9900: analog-output-headphones (unplugged)

900- port 0: iec958-stereo-output (unplugged)

900- profile: input:analog-stereo (unplugged)

900- profile: input:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo (unavailable)

900- profile: output:analog-stereo+input:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-21 (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-21+input:analog-stereo (unavailable)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-21+input:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-40 (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-40+input:analog-stereo (unavailable)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-40+input:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-41 (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-41+input:analog-stereo (unavailable)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-41+input:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-50 (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-50+input:analog-stereo (unavailable)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-50+input:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-51 (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-51+input:analog-stereo (unavailable)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-51+input:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-71 (plugged in)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-71+input:analog-stereo (unavailable)

900- profile: output:analog-surround-71+input:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- profile: output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo (unavailable)

900- profile: output:iec958-stereo+input:iec958-stereo (plugged in)

900- *profile: off (plugged in)

900-card 0: alsa_card.pci-0000_01_00.1

900- name: HDA NVidia

900- desc: GF108 High Definition Audio Controller

900- port 5900: hdmi-output-0 (unavailable)

900- port 5800: hdmi-output-1 (unavailable)

900- port 5700: hdmi-output-2 (unavailable)

900- port 5600: hdmi-output-3 (plugged in)

900- profile: output:hdmi-stereo (unplugged)

900- profile: output:hdmi-surround (unplugged)

900- profile: output:hdmi-surround71 (unplugged)

900- profile: output:hdmi-stereo-extra1 (unplugged)

900- profile: output:hdmi-surround-extra1 (unplugged)

900- profile: output:hdmi-surround71-extra1 (unplugged)

900- profile: output:hdmi-stereo-extra2 (unplugged)

900- profile: output:hdmi-surround-extra2 (unplugged)

900- profile: output:hdmi-surround71-extra2 (unplugged)

900- *profile: output:hdmi-stereo-extra3 (plugged in)

900 profile: off (plugged in)

221 ubuntu2020 closing connection

Sinks:

vdruser@ubuntu2020:~$ svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol LSNK

220 ubuntu2020 SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 2.4.6; Thu Jan 21 08:36:26 2021; UTF-8

900-*sink 0: alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra3 (plugged in)

900 *port 5600: hdmi-output-3 (plugged in)

221 ubuntu2020 closing connection

Devices:

vdruser@ubuntu2020:~$ svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol LDEV sink

220 ubuntu2020 SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 2.4.6; Thu Jan 21 08:37:57 2021; UTF-8

900-device 0:

900- type: sink

900- format: pcm

900- format: ac3-iec61937

900- format: eac3-iec61937

900- format: mpeg-iec61937

900- format: dts-iec61937

900 format: mpeg2-aac-iec61937

221 ubuntu2020 closing connection

vdruser@ubuntu2020:~$ svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol LDEV source

220 ubuntu2020 SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 2.4.6; Thu Jan 21 08:38:02 2021; UTF-8

900 no devices found

221 ubuntu2020 closing connection

Formats:

vdruser@ubuntu2020:~$ svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol LFOR

220 ubuntu2020 SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 2.4.6; Thu Jan 21 08:36:05 2021; UTF-8

900-pcm

900-ac3-iec61937

900-eac3-iec61937

900-mpeg-iec61937

900-dts-iec61937

900-mpeg2-aac-iec61937

900-truehd-iec61937

900 dtshd-iec61937

221 ubuntu2020 closing connection

Inputs (hangs):

vdruser@ubuntu2020:~$ svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol LSKI

220 ubuntu2020 SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 2.4.6; Thu Jan 21 08:38:39 2021; UTF-8

timeout

Zitat von seahawk1986

There is also an (somewhat experimental) setting for the frontend script that allows to suspend pulseaudio if the vdr frontend is used - change the variableuse_pasuspend for the softhddevice output plugin in /etc/yavdr-frontend/config.yml to True and restart the yavdr-frontend service within vdr's systemd user session (or reboot the system).

I also tried this - but exactly the same issue persist. Made no difference at all.