Kodi 19.4 crashes on startup when the Sound Preference is set to SpeakerAmp on MacOS

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Bug report

Describe the bug

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MacOS can be configured to route sound output to an internal speaker, external bluetooth device, ChromeCast or an internal application like an equalizer. When the default sound output selection is set to the "SpeakerAmp" application then Kodi 19.4 crashes during startup.

This problem is easily confirmed by running Kodi manually from a terminal window and entering /Applications/Kodi.app/Contents/MacOS/Kodi.

Expected Behavior

Here is a clear and concise description of what was expected to happen: Ideally, Kodi should support whatever sound device has been configured as the system default. Apps like SpeakerAmp allow users to increase frequencies that are harder to hear, or increase volume in noisy environments, across all apps.

Actual Behavior

Kodi begins initialization and eventually gets to enumerating the sound devices then quits and dies.

Possible Fix

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. On a Mac desktop or laptop install MacOs Catalina and Kodi. (Problem occurs on multiple versions of MacOS)
2. Install the free SpeakerAmp GUI from the Mac App store.
3. Page through the SpeakerAmp Wizard til it shows the SpeakerAmp (OS Specific) driver is not installed
4. Install the SpeakerAmp Driver
5. Set the MacOS sound preferences to "Internal Speaker"
6. Confirm Kodi starts correctly set to "internal Speaker" sound output
7. Set the MacOS sound preferences to "Speaker Amp"
8. Start Kodi from the Application icon (app should fail to appear or only appear briefly then quit)
9. Open a terminal window and enter: /Applications/Kodi.app/Contents/MacOS/Kodi
10. Observe the startup messages from Kodi.
11. Kodi should quit after it tries to initialize the SpeakerAmp output device

Debuglog

The debuglog can be found here:

Enumerated DARWINOSX devices: ... m_deviceName : SpeakerAmp-42:stream0 CActiveAEResampleFFMPEG::Init - init resampler failed CActiveAEResampleFFMPEG::Resample - resample failed ActiveAE::Configure - sink returned large buffer of -2147483648 ms, reducing to 100 ms Floating point exception: 8

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• [ ] Android

• [ ] iOS

• [ ] tvOS

• [ ] Linux

• [ ] OSX

• [ ] Windows

• [ ] Windows UWP

• [ X] MacOS

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