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Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 09 Sep 2018 20:28
by guykuo
Just noticed that I must manually set audio out device after EVERY launch of VLC back to "Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)". That's the optical output of my Mac Mini.
Current VLC version 3.04 and the latest nightly builds of VLC all revert to "System Sound Output Device" upon launch.
VLC used to remember the selected audio output device.
This is on Mac Mini 2012 running Macos 10.13.6.
Interestingly, the current VLC builds DO remember the output device on a Macbook Pro which isn't using optical output. VLC does remember "Built-In Output" vs "System Sound Output Device"
It's as though the specific string "Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)" can't be remembered but "Built-in Output" can be stored.
Went back through many nightly builds to locate when this began happening. Located the last version that properly remembers "Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)" as the audio output device.
vlc-3.0.2-20180309-0541 remembers the optical output correctly
vlc-3.0.2-20180310-0635 onward fail to remember "Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)"
This bug was introduced between vlc-3.0.2-20180309-0541 and vlc-3.0.2-20180310-0635
I would file a bug report, but the system won't let me sign in
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 12 Sep 2018 13:18
by guykuo
Finally realized that bug tracker uses completely different user account system.
No wonder forum credentials didn't work.
Created new account for bug tracker and filed a proper bug report.
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 25 Oct 2018 01:02
by billgates
Can the vlc team fix this?
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 23 Nov 2018 10:15
by billgates
Please.....
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 23 Nov 2018 21:00
by unidan
Hi,
I'll try to take a look but I don't own a mac unfortunately, so I hope the first guess would work.
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 25 Nov 2018 10:27
by billgates
Hi,
I'll try to take a look but I don't own a mac unfortunately, so I hope the first guess would work.
Thank you I can look at a nightly build if you fix and give feedback
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 14 Dec 2018 11:25
by billgates
Hi VLC team if you find time this holiday season that would be a nice treat. I would like to use VLC version 3 but cannot until this is fixed
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 11 Jan 2019 09:34
by billgates
Hi VLC team, if you have time soon can you look at this bug and I am happy to test a nightly build if you can fix. Really I'd like to have the encoded hdmi output selected and kept as saved each time vlc starts. Thank you! Bill
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 15 Feb 2019 22:36
by Gep
Same problem for me, since some updates of VLC, I need to manually select the device to >>DisplayPort (sortie encodée)<< each time I use it.
This selected device is not recorded, and go back to >>Périphérique audio "System Sound" en sortie<< each time I launch VLC.
MacMini 2018 (Mojave) + VLC 3.0.6 > HDMI > Pionner VSX-921 (5+1 Speakers) > HDMI > Video-Projector
If I don't do that, the Pionner cannot decode DTS Audio.
I tried v3.0.2 with the same result, but v3.0.1 works great
I disabled auto-update in waiting a fix...
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 27 Mar 2019 21:32
by jbrisbin
Bug #21170 (filed by guykuo) has not been addressed as of version 3.0.6. See
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/21170
Note that it also fails to save "HDMI (Encoded Output)" when an HDMI device is used as the target for unmangled audio.
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 15 May 2019 10:18
by billgates
Nightly 3.0.7 this bug is still active
Please help me fix so VLC saves HDMI (Encoded Output) as the default output!
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 14 Jun 2019 11:07
by billgates
With this bug not remembering HDMI encoded output (or any different output according to others) and not using hardware or software acceleration to play large HEVC files I am unable to move from VLC 2.2.8 to VLC 3.X
I downloaded VLC 4.X nightly beta to see and it crashes on exit every time
Guess I will be having to find another player until these 2 big issues for me can be fixed
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 02 Feb 2020 20:52
by ayamov
just investigated the problem and found a bug in restore audio settings code.
the fix is
Code: Select all
diff --git a/modules/audio_output/auhal.c b/modules/audio_output/auhal.c
index b56e609bc3..1a704f18d4 100644
--- a/modules/audio_output/auhal.c
+++ b/modules/audio_output/auhal.c
@@ -540,6 +540,9 @@ RebuildDeviceList(audio_output_t * p_aout, UInt32 *p_id_exists)
CFArrayAppendValue(currentListOfDevices, deviceNumber);
CFRelease(deviceNumber);
free(psz_encoded_name);
+
+ if (p_id_exists && i_id == i_id_exists)
+ *p_id_exists = i_id;
}
// TODO: only register once for each device
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 03 Feb 2020 23:58
by dfuhrmann
Thanks for your investigation. Would it be ok for you to send a git formatted patch to our developer mailing list at
vlc-devel@videolan.org? Then we can review it there and hopefully merge it, with your authorship retained.
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 22 Feb 2020 05:39
by guykuo
Yes! The fix in nightly build works. No more having to manually set audio output device after every VLC launch.
This fix has made VLC much more pleasant to use with an AV receiver.
Re: Bug - Audio Device Won't Remember Built-in Ouput (Encoded Output)
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 23:10
by dfuhrmann
Thanks for your feedback. We will release the fix with version 3.0.9 soon.