Re: [FreeRDP-devel] FreeRDP 2.0 - sound channel not detected (fake)

[Armin N. <arm...@th...>]

Hi,


No, sound is (just like mstsc in that regard) off by default.

As for remmina, check the connection advanced tab ;)


regards

Armin

On 12.04.20 11:23, marcel--- via FreeRDP-devel wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> First of all: Thanks for your great work!
>
> I just compiled the final 2.0.0 release of FreeRDP and did some testing.
>
> While doing so I noticed, that sound channel seems to be disabled by default:
>
> xfreerdp /u:marcel /v:192.168.1.105
> <...>
> [INFO][com.freerdp.channels.rdpsnd.client] - [static] Loaded fake backend for rdpsnd
>
> However, when specifying pulse as backend things start to work:
>
> xfreerdp /u:marcel /v:192.168.1.105 /sound:sys:pulse
> <...>
> [INFO][com.freerdp.channels.rdpsnd.client] - [static] Loaded pulse backend for rdpsnd
> [INFO][com.freerdp.channels.drdynvc.client] - Loading Dynamic Virtual Channel rdpsnd
>
> Shouldn't activated sound be the default?
>
> What makes things worse:
> When using some graphical frontends like remmina (that seems to use libxfreerdp instead of calling xfreerdp and does not give any audio options at all (at least I couldn't find anything)) you're stuck with no sound.
>
> There also is a RedHat bug about this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795310 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795310)
>
> Any ideas about that?
> I'm willing to work on a patch, once I get an idea about how things are supposed to work in FreeRDP-2.0.0/channels/rdpsnd/client/ (at least I guess that's where the magic (should) happen(s)).
>
> Bye,
>  Marcel
>
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