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gentoo linux, no desktop audio

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#1,822 opened on Dec 3, 2020

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A-audioA-desktophelp wanted

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Description

when trying to use the desktop player, i get an error saying "Unable to create audio device: A backend-specific error has occurred: ALSA function 'snd_pcm_start' failed with error 'EPIPE: broken pipe'"

i'm not very experienced with rust, but i was able to find where the error's thrown using a lot of println statements. in desktop/src/audio.rs, on line 108, there's a block of code that starts with "match sample_format" and none of my printlns after it show up, but all the ones before do.

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Research direction
Investigate the ALSA sample format matching in desktop/src/audio.rs around line 108. Check if the match arm for the specific sample format (e.g., S16LE) is missing or incorrectly handled on Gentoo's ALSA setup.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
desktop devaudio video rtc
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2
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Mostly clear
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Rust
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70