2012-05-17, 21:29
Hello,
I have a Acer Aspire Revo R3700 which I'm very happy with. I was slightly (pleasantly) surprised when I upgraded XBMC (to the latest from git) recently and found that I could select a new HDMI device in the audio output setting. This new device had parts of my receivers name in it, so something is now supporting some HDMI magic which it didn't before.
Anywho, I have a friend who bought an Acer Aspire Revo RL70. We got the sound "working" (there were some slight oddities in it, surely due to our weak ALSA-fu) using some manual hacks, but as things seem to be more automagic in newer XBMC's, I suggested he check out the source from the repository and build it himself, and see if a device akin to the new one I got would appear.
The end result was slightly disappointing. Though he loves the new features of the new XBMC, for him there's no new audio output device. In addition, the "custom" option which we used to get sound using the old version is gone.
He could simply switch back to the old version, but I can't help shake the feeling that it "should work".
What am I missing here? My receiver is HDMI 1.4, the one he's using is HDMI 1.3c (could this be an issue?). We're both running debian testing. My system uses a Nvidia chip, his uses ATI (AMD).
Anyone with some HDMI-fu who understands what's going on?
I have a Acer Aspire Revo R3700 which I'm very happy with. I was slightly (pleasantly) surprised when I upgraded XBMC (to the latest from git) recently and found that I could select a new HDMI device in the audio output setting. This new device had parts of my receivers name in it, so something is now supporting some HDMI magic which it didn't before.
Anywho, I have a friend who bought an Acer Aspire Revo RL70. We got the sound "working" (there were some slight oddities in it, surely due to our weak ALSA-fu) using some manual hacks, but as things seem to be more automagic in newer XBMC's, I suggested he check out the source from the repository and build it himself, and see if a device akin to the new one I got would appear.
The end result was slightly disappointing. Though he loves the new features of the new XBMC, for him there's no new audio output device. In addition, the "custom" option which we used to get sound using the old version is gone.
He could simply switch back to the old version, but I can't help shake the feeling that it "should work".
What am I missing here? My receiver is HDMI 1.4, the one he's using is HDMI 1.3c (could this be an issue?). We're both running debian testing. My system uses a Nvidia chip, his uses ATI (AMD).
Anyone with some HDMI-fu who understands what's going on?