[alsa-devel] aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory

[Christopher Head]

On Mon, 26 May 2014 10:30:33 +0200
Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> wrote:

> Christopher Head wrote:
> > asound # cat cards
> >  0 [MID            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
> >                       HDA Intel MID at 0xf4900000 irq 53
> >  1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
> >                       HDA NVidia at 0xf3080000 irq 17
> >
> > I can't play audio on non-default devices.
> >
> > Running aplay with -D hdmi does not work, failing with this message:
> > aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory
> 
> The default card has no "hdmi" device.
> 
> Try -D hdmi:CARD=NVidia (or better plug:hdmi:CARD=NVidia to get
> automatic sample format conversions).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clemens

Well, here’s what happens when I try either of those:

$ aplay -D hdmi:CARD=NVidia phone.wav
Playing WAVE 'phone.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono
aplay: set_params:1233: Sample format non available
Available formats:
- S16_LE
- S32_LE

(so, looks like it worked fine)

$ aplay -D plug:hdmi:CARD=NVidia phone.wav
ALSA
lib /tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/work/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/src/conf.c:4578:(parse_args)
Unknown parameter hdmi:CARD ALSA
lib /tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/work/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/src/conf.c:4711:(snd_config_expand)
Parse arguments error: No such file or directory ALSA
lib /tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/work/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/src/pcm/pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate)
Unknown PCM plug:hdmi:CARD=NVidia
aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory

(no idea what happened here)

Actually, I was led to this problem initially due to trying to get
Linphone to use my HDMI output for ringing but my normal audio output
to headphones for talking. I discovered Linphone was using the wrong
device node name, so I tried to narrow down the problem by getting
Linphone out of the picture and just playing to different destinations
with aplay.

What strikes me as weird is that sure, my default card doesn’t have an
hdmi device—so why then is it trying to open a /dev/snd/pcm node whose
name is a mixture of card and device that doesn’t exist? If it’s only
willing to consider card 0 in this case, why is it looking up the name
“hdmi” under card 1 and finding device number 3 at all, only to
concatenate it with card number 0?

If this is considered not a bug, then I’ll be happy to leave you alone
and poke the Linphone/Mediastreamer folks more instead.
-- 
Christopher Head
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