no sound in videos

[OliverHering]

Hi,

Info-Beamer is not playing any sound, if i start a video. But if I play the same video with the omxplayer everything works fine.

The environment variable is set to: INFOBEAMER_AUDIO_TARGET=hdmi Audio Output is set to HDMI: amixer cset numid=3 2

And this is my very short script:

gl.setup(NATIVE_WIDTH, NATIVE_HEIGHT)

local video = resource.load_video{
    file = "VID_20160815.mp4";
    audio = true;
    looped = false;
    paused = false;
}

function node.render()
    video:draw(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT)
end

I'm using Info-Beamer Pi on RASPBIAN JESSIE (Raspberry Pi B).

Any idea what is going wrong? I'm quite new to Linux and I'm thankful for any help.

Cheers Mickey

[dividuum]

On first sight that looks fine. Could you send me the output of running

$ INFOBEAMER_AUDIO_TARGET=hdmi INFOBEAMER_LOG_LEVEL=3 info-beamer /some/path

Either here or to the mail address on https://info-beamer.com/doc/about

[OliverHering]

It works with the INFOBEAMER_AUDIO_TARGET=hdmi parameter! So i looked in printenv and the environment variable was gone. If I write export INFOBEAMER_AUDIO_TARGET=hdmi the variable is only working till the next reboot.

[dividuum]

When you have a shell running, setting environment variables is temporary. By default they are not inherited by programs you call from your shell. You have to either

• export then like this $ export VARIABLE=value. After that, programs called from your shell will see that value.
• call the program with the variable assignment like this VARIABLE=value program

In both cases once you close the shell the assignment is gone. My suggestion would be to write a small wrapper script that sets the correct values. Something like this:

#!/bin/sh
export INFOBEAMER_AUDIO_TARGET=hdmi
exec info-beamer /some/path

[OliverHering]

Ok, Thanks. Didn't know that. I will add the command to the other script, which is calling info-beamer.