Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:57:32 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 292403] multimedia/vlc: AFMT_FLOAT breaks OSS backend with virtual_oss Message-ID: <bug-292403-12827@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292403 Bug ID: 292403 Summary: multimedia/vlc: AFMT_FLOAT breaks OSS backend with virtual_oss Product: Ports & Packages Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: Individual Port(s) Assignee: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Reporter: walker.thompson@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Flags: maintainer-feedback?(multimedia@FreeBSD.org) Assignee: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Created attachment 267080 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=267080&action=edit Working patch for VLC with virtual_oss When trying to play back audio files in VLC with the OSS backend, there is no audio output to virtual_oss devices. I have tested the latest VLC port on 3 different systems with virtual_oss and noticed the same bug on all of them. If virtual_oss is disabled, playback on physical sound devices works as usual. The following errors occur in an infinite loop: [0000000800c259e0] oss audio output error: cannot set audio format 0x10000000: Invalid argument [0000000800c259e0] main audio output error: module not functional [000000081da6f3e0] main decoder error: failed to create audio output On little-endian architectures, 0x10000000 corresponds to AFMT_FLOAT. Support for AFMT_FLOAT was introduced in a recent commit (https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=1728d26682c65cb878971f55b4e87e24d0050524). EINVAL is being returned by an ioctl() on /dev/dsp with request SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT. In the following kdump extract, /dev/dsp is the device created by virtual_oss: 58222 vlc CALL openat(AT_FDCWD,0x8091f3bcf,0x100001<O_WRONLY|O_CLOEXEC>) 58222 vlc NAMI "/dev/dsp" 58222 vlc RET openat 58/0x3a 58222 vlc CALL ioctl(0x3a,SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT,0x7fffddbe5c98) 58222 vlc RET ioctl -1 errno 22 Invalid argument Frankly, I am not sure whether to view this as a VLC bug or a virtual_oss one; if it is the latter, I lack the competency to investigate it fully. Either way, I have not encountered any other applications that are affected (audio in Firefox is fine, for instance). If we limit the scope to VLC, two solutions have worked for me: 1) building with Pulse backend (not entirely satisfactory, as OSS is still broken and Pulse is not a default option...); 2) the attached patch. What is the best way to proceed? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.home | help
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