Questions tagged [alsa]
For questions pertaining to ALSA, the Linux sound subsystem. ALSA sits below advanced systems like PulseAudio.
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Sound on GPIO via pwm on CM4S not working
I am having trouble getting sound running on CM4S. We are using a customised boot2Qt OS with qt 6.9.0 that builds via yocto. Kernel is 6.6.63-v8. That's what the base maintained recipe supplies. We ...
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Trouble setting seperate usb audio hardware for alsa input and output
I'm on a pi 5 running a fresh install of bookworm. I'm trying to set one USB interface as my audio output and a second USB interface as my audio input. aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ...
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Raspberry Pi 5: alsamixer displaying different controls on boot
I have a Raspberry Pi 5 4Gb. I am trying to run a Python script on boot which will allow me to control the volume of my default amixer device (Master) through a slider switch. The script works ...
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FFMPEG hangs intermittently before audio recording starts
I'm trying to get FFMPEG to pull both audio from my webcam. It works fantastically, when it does, but is intermittent. I am using the following command: ffmpeg -report -y -f alsa -channels 1 -ar ...
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No audio over HDMI with latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite official image - raspi-config not working
I use a Raspberry 3B+. After a fresh installation of latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64 bit (Bookworm official image : https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_lite_armhf/images/raspios_lite_armhf-2023-...
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BlueALSA audio not playing when initiating connection through bluetoothctl, but does play when connection initiated through device
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a bluetooth receiver for audio. I set it up with this script and it works well if the connection is initiated through my phone: Click on the name of the raspberry bluetooth, ...
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Alsa mixer won't save setting
I have UGREEN usb audio interface. MY pi 4 is recognize it but no sound is comnig out. I try both via VLC player and via youtube (the video won't even play) I did the follow: I wrote at terminal: sudo ...
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Surely I can run sox with alsa without pulseaudio
Why would I want to do that? because pulseaudio isn't needed (presumably) and pulseaudio does not want to run as root. In theory I should be able to run pulseaudio --system to fix the problem, but I ...