Re: rygel with FLAC (either Playbin or VLC)

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 13:37 +0000, Nicolas Rigaud wrote:
> ‎Hello again,
> I stopped Pulse from working (autospawn=no, in
> /etc/pulse/client.conf) and killed it. 
> "Aplay -L" shows the Hifiberry card as the "sysdefault", as before. I
> suppose it means Alsa recognizes it as such.
> If a play mp3 or Flac files directly from the Raspberry‎, I can hear
> them (using VLC, for example) : Alsa seems to work when I'm not using
> Upnp !

There's three things you can check:
1) check that the "default" device, not sysdefault is your hifiberyy

2) run gst-inspect-1.0 alsasink and check what it outputs as default
value for device and card-name

3) make sure your mixer is actually unmuted

> However, if I now control Rygel with Playbin from the Bubbleupnp app,
> there is still no s‎ound, whether FLAC or Mp3 ...
> And I noticed that speaker-test won't produce any sound either..which
> would mean that the problem lies in my sound configuration, not in
> Rygel... 
> By the way, Rygel's Playbin player ("Voici de la Musique Rpi") seems
> to be indicated as Flac-compliant : here is a part of the Bubbleupnp
> log‎‎. Thanks ! 

Yeah, we hard-code that ;)