Ubuntu-Kodi sound issue

[Otispunkmeyer]

Well, first foray into Linux and I am having an issue.

Went for Ubuntu as a first go and I just want to run Kodi on it for now. Managed to get Kodi installed by the terminal (you can actually find it the Ubuntu "app-store" thing, but it fails to install). First problem; no sound via HDMI.

Sorted that with adding my user to some groups and updating some drivers (followed a guide for Nvidia cards with HDMI) and sound now works. However, in Kodi, every 5 minutes the sound drops for 2 seconds then comes back. Video continues perfectly. In Kodi I have tried between the Pulse Audio driver and the HDMI one, makes no difference. I turned upmixing off also. No difference.

It doesn't appear to have this issue with anything else. I can watch YT videos in Firefox without any audio issues so I think it is a Kodi or Kodi/Ubuntu interface problem?

Any ideas?

Should I just try a different distro?

[scovette]

As you're just running Kodi perhaps use LibreElec and save yourself any hassle?

[cpjitservices]

Ive had this before and it was the 'BUILD' of Kodi I was using.

Switched to a newer / older version of Kodi that seemed to support the device I was using.

[V8covin]

Sound issues can be awkward to fix in Linux.It's often a driver/hardware incompatibility but can be as simple as a setting in pulseaudio etc.
You're better off searching the problem on the Linux or Ubuntu forums
https://ubuntuforums.org.
Someone else will amost certainly have had a similar problem

[Otispunkmeyer]

Cheers all. It's an old computer circa 2009, so perhaps trying older builds might do it. Thanks for LibreElec suggestion also. I had wanted to use kodibuntu or whatever it is called but on their site the guide for installing it seems to just go round in a circle of links. So I gave up and just went for ubunutu.

Will give that a try!

[Otispunkmeyer]

LibreElec, fixes all. Was exactly what I needed; turn computer on, bam straight into Kodi. Sound works perfect, though it did default to pulse audio Bluetooth audio...computer doesn't even have BT! But switched to sound over to hdmi and it's flawless.

Thanks for the tip off on that!