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Yes the receiver is showing Dolby, DTS and so on and is working perfectly now.
I didn't have to edit asound.conf at all, I just put custom output device and passthrough in settings.
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Do aplay -L
Find the hdmin audio
Copy that into audio setting
Should look something like this
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
The Generic part I believe is your graphics card. So yours might look like =NVdia
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Hey folks. First time poster here. I'm having issues with only multi-channel audio as well. I did a clean install of XBMCBuntu on a NVidia foxconn nettop from dharma where everything worked great.
I have tried all of the suggested variations of custom settings for audio and passthrough and even output from hdmi to optical and still have no luck with multichannel. The solutions that work for most still produce stereo sound but still no multichannel. Setting to HDMI all for output, audio and passthrough didn't even play stereo. Thanks all in advance.[/php]
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Try post above then set to 5.1 dd dts then reboot. Give that a try
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I've got it working now. It didn't take any custom configuration at all. Everything is now set to HDMI and I have the ac3 and dts setting turned off for my receiver. Thanks for the help.
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I had a similar problem on my nVidia ION-based machine connected via HDMI: videos played fine, but songs stopped with "Failed to initialize audio device" when skipping to the next song. In the logs I saw "ALSA: device is busy" error.
I thought it was ALSA not being able to share the device properly, and resolved it by installing PulseAudio (apt-get install pulseaudio), rebooting for the session daemon to start, and selecting these options:
Audio output: HDMI
Audio output source: High Definition Audio Controller Digital Stereo (HDMI) (PulseAudio)
Passthrough output device: iec958 (not sure if needed, i didn't touch this one).
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not a good advice, pulseaudio is not installed on purpose, don't install it unless you really need it.