Amazing to see how much unRaid has flourished! Great job, guys!
I've been experiencing two frustrating mind numbing issues with sound. Either I get:
1. No Sound at All
I have to bend over backwards and do backflips to get sound going again. Often there's no rhyme or reason to it. Sound can be working one moment, and not the next.
Or as soon as I fire up the TV, I can spend a couple hours working to get the sound back.
The virtual machine is always running, and I'm not shutting down my unraid server at all.
I don't have sleep enabled.
I thought this article was my saving grace:
Fix video and audio playback problems on Firefox for Windows https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Videos-sound-pictures-and/Fix-video-and-audio-playback-problems-on-Firefox-for-Windows/ta-p/37394
It did seem to solve my initial issues, and I considered the problem gone.
Another reason I found for the issue, that I had thought finally solved it, was the install order of the virtio drivers in the windows environment on the virtual machine.
I had overlooked this initially, and again thought I finally once and for all solved it.
But this issue with no audio still comes back to haunt me.
No rhyme or reason. And when I do get sound back, I've not isolated anything specific that is the silver bullet.
I've read on another unRaid sound issue thread, the solution was to disable/enable the sound device driver in windows. This does not appear to help.
And it occurs with both windows installed VNC and Firefox/Chrome.
I have ZERO sound issue with OpenElec.
So Windows seems to be forcing the issue somehow.
I've searched high and low on this one and tried everything I can think of.
Will continue to monitor and observe and report back any useful findings.
2. Offensive sound modulation.
Playing a video results in sound that is distorted and unbearable to listen to.
Again this occurs in Firefox (netflix), and VNC.
With the Firefox/netflix, it seems 90% of the time I'll adjust the time slider of the video and it will begin playing properly.
Worst case, I need to restart Firefox entirely.
For VNC, for quite awhile I resorted to the same solution 99% of the time: restarting.
Lately though that hasn't seemed to work.
This issue has become especially persistent lately... and in the most troubling cases, I've isolated the issue to opening a RAR file in VNC over the network.
I created a virtual machine as my http media server which runs Windows10.
I'm downloading vids on my primary machine to my main system folders.
On the virtual machine (fresh install), I'll start VLC, and open up the network shared folder from my primary machine, grab the plain .rar file and drop it on VNC in the virtual environment.
In the most extreme cases, I unpack the rar to the desktop of the virtual machine, and then drop the mkv/mp4 video file in VNC.
While this seems to solve this issue, this workflow leaves a lot to be desired.
In looking at two threads here on the forum after signing in to post these comments, I do notice there have been recent challenges with SMB, and now these issues seem to have a context.
Hopefully, these observations provide some value and insight.
Even despite these issues, I can't express how happy I am to have two unRaid servers.
Best decision I ever made was to jump on unRaid v4 and hold on for the development and ride of a lifetime!
Great job, guys, thank you for all your tireless efforts and steady updates/releases!
unRaid is Pure Distilled Greatness!!!