Reversed stereo using 3.5mm jack

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Hi,

i am enjoing my Vero 4K for a month now. Yesterday there was a scene in a tv show, where the left and right channels were very distinct a i noticed they were reversed.

Then i checked using a youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WKspXZfmEE to discover its true.

Tested with two pairs of headphones (3 pin and 4 pin) and with stereo speakers (3 pin). They all work great on my PC and phone.

Also the channels are ok using the HDMI cable - watching the same video produces right output on TV and reversed output on 3.5 mm jack.

As i am only using headphones, now i notice this everywhere.

I didnt notice this until yesterdays update, but maybe it was there all along.

Is there a software setting i can change?

Can you help?

Thank you.

Logs: http://paste.osmc.tv/gukexiyica

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No. Unless you want to write a bespoke alsa conf file. There were some changes in the latest release but I don’t think they had to do with channel allocation. I noticed the same with the previous release.

3

The pin-out of the 3.5mm jack socket is a little unusual and, for example, differs from the RPi layout.

You can find the details here.

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Thanks for the info. I was looking on more information about how the pins work. In every pin-out i found the left channel is connected to first pin (tip), so i dont understand how it is possible the audio is reversed.

According to this post: Multichannel audio incorrectly mapped - #26 by sam_nazarko the June update changed some audio settings. Maybe it reversed the stereo channels too?

Plus in this quote, it’s specified that the jack is good for headphones/speakers. It’s not true right now, as everyone who puts their headphones in will get reversed audio. So i call this a bug. Maybe it can be fixed in some future release?

Right now, i am just wearing the headphones reversed, so there is no hurry. Would be nice if this will be fixed some time.

Thanks

5

I was going to suggest that! Actually, after the last update, my channels were briefly the right way round but then I managed to switch them back while poking in alsamixer. Now it’s stuck that way. Trying to get to the bottom of this as I don’t own a digital receiver.

6

For now, you can run this:

echo l|r > /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask
echo c  > /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask

I’m working on a more practical resolution in the interim.

Sam

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Thank you for getting into this.

When i ran the first command, i got this response:
-bash: /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask: Permission denied

I am logged in as “osmc” user. I also tried prepending "sudo " in front of the command.

8

Run sudo -s before running the above commands.

9

Thank you, now it works perfectly :slight_smile:

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Add it to /etc/rc.local before exit 0 and it will work on every reboot.

Sam

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Hi, added this into my rc.local file few days ago. First reboot after that was just now (installed september update).

Audio is still reversed. Content of file is bellow.

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

echo "l|r" > /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask
echo c > /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask

exit 0

Do I need to change/add something?

Thank you.

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Does it work if you run the commands manually after bootup?

It’s possible there needs to be a small delay when running this

Cheers

Sam

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Try just echo l > /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask in the first line.

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Yes, it works flawlessly. Do i need to put the “sudo -s” in there as well?

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sudo should not be needed in rc.local, but is needed if you are running the echo commands as user osmc and not as root.

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Tried a few things, here is the report (everything with “sudo -s”):
– added “sleep 30” before the commands => didn’t work
– checked execute permissions on rc.local => all ok
– executed /etc/rc.local directly from console => didn’t work
– tried to run both commands directly from console => didn’t work (weird)
– ran only the “echo c > …” again => working
– tried to put only the “echo l|r > …” command to rc.local end exexuted it => sound was coming from both speakers at the same time

Final solution, which works after restart:

echo “l|r” > /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask
echo c > /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask
echo c > /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask

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Try in rc.local:

/bin/echo “l|r” | /usr/bin/tee /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask
/bin/echo c | /usr/bin/tee /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask
/bin/echo c | /usr/bin/tee /sys/class/amaudio/audio_channels_mask

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This works as well. Thanks.

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Hi, just wanted to let you know that after the last update the stereo was reversed again.

I thought maybe the update reseted the rc.local file to default state - after checking, the content was still there.

I removed it and now the stereo is working as it should.

Looks like you fixed it for everyone :slight_smile:

Just hoping it’s not a bug and wont be reverted in future update.

Thanks.

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It’s mentioned in the release notes