TTS & Audio cut after 2 second

[pdor90]

good evening everyone. I have been using vlc for a few days on my raspi 4 (1GB) with 64bit hassio booted from ssd, and I switched from mopidy to vlc since on the 64bit version it does not work, I set everything without problems, I use the 3.5 audio jack as regards the exit.
here is the problem, at the time of playing the files, both TTS and WAV or MP3 after two seconds the audio mutes and playback is not completed, it is a known problem or a problem with my configuration, after 3/4 seconds the problem disappears, tested with a song

thank you so much

[lufton]

I have similar issue.
HassOs x64 over RPi 4. If I send TTS audio through VLC telnet integration it plays couple seconds, then lags, then sometimes in a few seconds finishes the announcing the message.
However if I play mp3 song from local share folder it plays fine with no problem.

[Maco65]

I have the same problem. It seems like VLC players get some lagging or delaying/stopping playing file.
I am using RPi 4B with HassOS 4.15 with Home Assistant 0.117.4
I am playing simple (350kB) local files from \share folder. After restart of the add-on it plays fine for 1-2 times and then (playing the same mp3 file) it starts to be problematic.
I did several RESTARTs and REBULIDs - no change :(
Here is the log just after starting the Add-on:

[00a70c10] dbus interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
[00a70c10] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[b6f05f80] main libvlc error: interface "dbus,none" initialization failed
[00a7ab00] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[b6f05f80] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed
[00a54d70] main playlist: playlist is empty
[00a70d40] [telnet] lua interface: Listening on host "telnet://:4212".
00a6c250] [http] lua interface: Lua HTTP interface

and the log after playing the mp3 files: [00a56930] alsa audio output error: cannot estimate delay: I/O error

EDIT: Actually the problem exists even during "first time" playback after restart of HA. It seems to be random with 8-9 bad plays and 1-2 correct (no distortion and full play of entire sound).
Any help will be appreciated.

[Maco65]

Also noticed the following in the Logs:

Logger: homeassistant.helpers.entity
Source: components/vlc_telnet/media_player.py:113
First occurred: 11:30:15 (2 occurrences)
Last logged: 11:30:25
Update for media_player.lvlc fails

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 278, in async_update_ha_state
    await self.async_device_update()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 474, in async_device_update
    raise exc
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/vlc_telnet/media_player.py", line 113, in update
    status = self._vlc.status()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_telnet_vlc/vlctelnet.py", line 150, in status
    status_output = self.run_command('status')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_telnet_vlc/vlctelnet.py", line 59, in run_command
    command_output = self.tn.read_until(b'> ').decode('ascii').split('\r\n')[:-1]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 44: ordinal not in range(128)

[tebeso]

same problem.

[gitmichieletto]

similar situation here
using Rpi3, Hassio OS 5.10 with TTS
mp3 file in cache are perfect if played from the config/tts directory
playback TRUNCATES first 2 seconds, and adds a short blank at about 3rd second, then goes smooth - all playbacks have same behaviour (music or tts)
I think the root cause is the same of ok first 2 seconds, then stop

[md-ray]

Same problem here

I got alsa audio error as well

[00000055994e9e80] [http] lua interface: Lua HTTP interface [00000055994c5d80] alsa audio output error: cannot estimate delay: I/O error [00000055994c5d80] alsa audio output error: cannot estimate delay: I/O error [00000055994c5d80] alsa audio output error: cannot estimate delay: I/O error

When I to search, I found some info in here https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/vlc-staticy-sound-new-install-of-current-4175553082/
I don't know whether it's related or not

[nimroddolev]

I have the same issue as well on my RPi4 setup. I have tried multiple speakers connected to the headphone jack and the issue persists.

[Maco65]

I have moved from "local VLC" to VLC (it look like more "official" one) and when I tested it now it runs fine on mp3 files (no lagging) but I think I have noticed this issue even after move to current VLC. There is nothing suspicious in the logs now.

[fincz]

Hello, I have exactly the same issue with vlc-telnet integration, sometimes it plays the tts or np3 in www folder just Fine but mosty the sound is interupted. Any solution yet? Maybe another integration working good with the host's 3.5mm jack? Or did any1 solved tis issue? Thank you!

[gitmichieletto]

I have solved the problem using the Modipy addon from Poeschl user - never failed once in 1 year of use

[fincz]

Hi, thankyou for your hint. I installed mopidy, but how did you create a music player entity from that? VlC had nice integration for this. Thank you a lot! Dne po 27. 12. 2021 12:26 uživatel gitmichieletto ***@***.***> napsal:

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[gitmichieletto]

i configured this (192.168.1.xxx IP of raspi running hassio):

media_player:

• platform: mpd
  name: audio_raspi4
  host: 192.168.1.xxx

I mainly use it to play google TTS or local mp3 files

[Poci]

Same problem here. Raspberry pi 4, latest versions of everything and tts sound is choppy. Speakers connected by 3.5 mm jack.