[robo989]

Hi mate, I actually got somewhere with this and got it working by modifing my asound.conf (which was empty previously)...Wasn't even looking for this...

Chuck this lot in at /etc/asound.conf

pcm.force48 {
type rate
slave {
pcm "hw:0,9"
rate 48000
}
}



That should sort it, obviously change "hw:0,9" to the correct output you are using for HDMI.

Then set audio device and passthrough device to both "custom" and for the value, "force48" in the xbmc settings.

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Oh,,,,I'm late to the party, lol. Thanks for the advice.

Crikey, spent weeks being annoyed with this and gave up now a couple people give the answer and by chance I found it myself not even looking into this at the time.

I'll check your solutions, mine was from...well I can't remember, was browsing the xbmc audioengine thread and someone posted something referring to sample rate conversion so gave it a shot for this.

Thanks again!

[jgrevich]

I have a Zotac AD-10 (AMD350) and had a similar issue with analog sound. I was able to fix it following this guide: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996

Basically I needed to create an asound file (either /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc) with the following settings:

Code:

pcm.!default {
  type plug
  slave {
#    pcm "hw:1,0" #delete the first hash for sound over analog
#    pcm "hw:1,1" #delete the first hash for sound over optical
    pcm "hw:0,3" #delete the first hash for sound over hdmi
    rate 48000
  }
}

Then in XBMC make sure to use a custom output device of "hw:0,3" and select HDMI as the passthrough device (I have an AV receiver as a passthrough device). You may need to check with `aplay -l` to figure out the correct card/device number for your system.

Hope that helps, it's an annoying problem.

[blm14]

I should just note that this is a limitation of HDMI, not XBMC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Audio.2Fvideo

I'm kind of the mind that there should be some way to have XBMC resample to 48KHz automatically when you select HDMI out

[irish66]

I was having the same problem. Thank you to to the original poster, and the solver.