Audio troubles

[Addison]

Hey guys.

I have a passive set of normal headphones that don't require any power.

I went to Rasp-Config and changed the audio output from HDMI to the audio jack.

When running an emulator with my headphones on, the sound is extremely faint.

Also, in Kodi, for some reason this feature doesn't work and the audio goes to the television instead.

Am I missing something simple here?

One other questions as well.

I have all of my DVDs backed up using DVDShrink.

Here's an example of one of the movies:

Is there a way to just play a folder like this in Kodi instead of having to choose the correct video file?

On my original Xbox, I remember being able to highlight over a movie folder, bring up the options menu, and select play from there.

It was nice and simple this way and it would then go to the DVD's title page screen.

Many thanks ahead.

-Raspberry Pi 2, Retropie 4.0.2, Kodi 3.7

[backstander]

@Addison I believe you can adjust the overall volume running alsamixer from the commandline

Also different emulators/games have different volumes like the N64 is super loud compared to the other emulators. One trick I do is to use the Hotkey (I set to the Select button) and Volume Up & Down (which I use the right analog stick up & down). Put this in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

# for Xbox 360 controllers
# Hotkey button
input_enable_hotkey_btn = 8 #Select
# Volume controls: mute, volume up and down
input_volume_up_axis = -3 #Up on Right Stick
input_volume_down_axis = +3 #Down on Right Stick

So for example if you hold down the Select button and press up on the right analog stick, the volume will increase.

Now Kodi uses it's own audio settings so if you want to use headphone in Kodi, you have to go into the Audio menu and change it to your 3.5mm audio jack.

Last, I've never tried to play DVD files from inside Kodi on a Raspberry Pi so I have no idea but I assume there's probably a way.

[Addison]

Thanks!

I'll give it a go!

I'm using an iBuffalo controller though, but I guess it's time to try out my PS4 one for this.

[backstander]

You could use like the up & down buttons on the dpad of your iBuffalo controller for volume up & down but you'd need to find out what buttons they are.

Just run ls /dev/input/to find out which js# your iBuffalo is using and then run jstest /dev/input/js0 or whatever number instead of 0 that the iBuffalo was on. Then just start pressing buttons on your iBuffalo and the number onscreen that corresponds to the button pressed will say On or something like that.

Update
My controller's dpad uses -1 for the dpad up and +1 for the dpad down so it would be like this:

input_volume_up_axis = -1 #Up on dpad
input_volume_down_axis = +1 #Down on dpad

[Addison]

Hi again.

Does Kodi have volume control?

I'm asking because my first gen Xbox had a Db sliding volume bar on the top right of the screen but I'm not finding anything like that on my Pi.

I did run alsamixer and maxed out the volume.

My Nintendo emulator is so much better now with headphones. Thank you!

Anyway, I turned on the audio settings for Kodi and I have sound through my headphones as well.

The sound is somewhat medium though so I'm hoping there's a way to max that out too.

Cheers and thanks again for your previous replies.

[backstander]

Hi @Addison

You can bind volume up and down to buttons on your gamepad for use in Kodi. As I said before, I'm using an Xbox 360 controller and here's a thread that I was first figuring out how to get the Xbox 360 controller working with Kodi again after the RetroPie 4.0 update:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3580/wireless-xbox-360-controller-issues-in-kodi-16-1-on-retropie-4-0-1

[BuZz]

I have marked this as solved - you can do that from the topic tool btw - no need to change topic anymore

[backstander]

@Addison said in Audio troubles:

I have all of my DVDs backed up using DVDShrink.

Is there a way to just play a folder like this in Kodi instead of having to choose the correct video file?

I was digging around in Kodi's settings menu last night and I came across something that I thought might work for you but I didn't test it because I just encode my movies into mp4 which works beautifully in Kodi.

Go into Kodi's Settings menu -> Videos -> File Lists -> Combine split video items = Enabled

The description says "Combines multi-part video files, DVD folders or movie folders, down to a single item in non-library views."

I don't believe that Kodi has the built in function of playing encrypted DVDs but ripping them with DVDShrink should remove this encryption.

Please let us know if this worked!

[Addison]

I tried your suggestion and tested this with a bunch of movies.

Once I click on a movie folder, it automatically begins to play them all from the very beginning.

It was such a pain until now.

Thank you very much for your idea.