Audio output sometimes cuts out
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- audio-video-rtc, desktop
Research direction
No source file or failing test is named. Start by running test_audio_config on the affected macOS Qt 6 setup and comparing its output with the reported CoreAudio warnings; done means audio playback no longer cuts out or crashes under the reported conditions.
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Description
Hydrus version
v669
Qt major version
Qt 6
Operating system
macOS other (specify in comments)
Install method
Running from source
Install and OS comments
Tahoe 26.3
Bug description and reproduction
Sometimes audio will just cut out while playing media. Sometimes accompanied by an immediate crash (that might be a separate issue), sometimes not.
The log output shows:
v669, 2026-04-25 00:59:12: QObject::connect(QIODevice, QPlatformAudioEndpointBase): invalid nullptr parameter
v669, 2026-04-25 00:59:12: Unable to read property "kAudioDevicePropertyPreferredChannelLayout" for object 133 , scope "kAudioObjectPropertyScopeOutput" ; Data size is too small: 12 VS 32 bytes
If the warning is unexpected use test_audio_config to get comprehensive audio info and report a bug
v669, 2026-04-25 00:59:13: QAudioSource: Unable to use find most recent CoreAudio AudioDeviceID for given device-id. The device might not be connected.
Unfortunately difficult to reproduce.
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- Python
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