Lost the ability to fast forward or skip the video after changing audio output from HDMI to ALL

[paweu]

The video fereezes, and hitting play/pause has no effect on the video. Pause overlay shows up and hides as expected though. The only option that works is to stop the video which exists to xbmc normally. After switching the audio setting back everything works as expected.

I'm using XBian 1.0a5 / XBMC 12.2

[Koenkk]

Did you set the audio output to "all"?

[paweu]

Yes. Can you reproduce?

[Koenkk]

Yes, this is a known issue

[Koenkk]

Can you try if the latest frodo nightly solves this, to install

sudo su 
wget http://dikonist.asuscomm.com:82/XBian/APT/installTestMirror.sh
chmod +x installTestMirror.sh
./installTestMirror.sh
apt-get update
apt-get install xbian-package-xbmc-frodo-nightly -y

[paweu]

Thank you, Koenkk, for looking into this.

The latest nightly (installed today) solves the freezing bug, but brings another one.
I can skip thru the video freely and play it at diffrerent speeds, even backwards while having the dual output option selected in settings - that's a huge improvement.

In two cases out of three video files tested, after skipping 30s forward or back the sound on the hdmi output starts flikkering, i.e. the sound is audible for a fraction of a second, then goes mute for a second, and so on. The display on my amplifier tells me that the sound stream disappears during the mute phase. At the same time the analog output doesn't flikker. It goes like that until I pause and resume the video, after that everything goes normal. The problem appears very often though not always.
Same files play normally with single (hdmi) output selected.

[mk01]

I remember this one from past two weeks, but now I don't recall what I pinpointed as source of the problem. Whether firmware, or Gotham back ports. :-/

I was testing the latest nightly as well but removed very fast due to broken PVR. The streams didn't start to play throwing many errors into log about some audio init problems?!

I'm running and pushing to beta2 test repo currently nightly from 12.2 Git:20130829-18397e1, looks fine.

btw: what firmware (vcgencmd version) you have on your Alpha5 ? must be quite old, is it ?

[paweu]

xbian@xbian ~ $ vcgencmd version
May 17 2013 16:13:22
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version "4db618758f738458ba904cacc4572be4b094af85" (clean) (release)

[Iri-Dium]

Issue with Beta 1.1 - solved (I believe in Beta 1.2)

[paweu]

Yes, after 'apt-get upgrade' the problem doesn't appear anymore. Maybe it's the new firmware.

(although now statup scripts are messed; fixed a little and waiting for beta1.2 to reinstall).