Acer Aspire Revo R3700 choppy playback / no sound
#1
Guys xbmc is not working for me and I am looking for ideas on how I should approach the issue I have of choppy playback with no sound. I have purchased the hardware below following some reading to ensure it is supported however I seem to be missing something.

I am booting to a LIVEcd (usb key) however I am now thinking of installing this on the 500GB HDD which is in the R3700. Is my setup below ok? is there anything else I need to do to get this to work?

Thanks

My setup

HTPC: Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Nettop, Intel Atom Dual Core D525B 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM, 500GB HDD, NOOPT, ION 2, HDMI
TV: LG 50PV350T connected via HDMI
XBMC: xbmcUbuntu v11 LiveCD (usb key)
SOURCE: H264 mkv @ 1080p located on a usb disk
SETTINGS: hardware acceleration enabled

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#2
Guys I have resolved the choppy playback by installing the xbmcubuntu on the HDD so making progress. I still have the issue where I have no sound going through the hdmi port to the TV (amp is in the post)

I have seen mentions of the acer aspire revo r3700 needing a tweak to get the sound working, can anyone help me out here?

Thanks
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#3
There are a few threads on here detailing how to get it to work so I won't repeat as it will be easier doing a search.

However, I also have a 3700 and if you install XBMCFreak, you should find that the sound works right away as all the tweaks are made for you specifically for the 3700 aswell as others.
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#4
Norms I have installed xbmcfreak and again no sound

I have been searching and just cannot see what is causing me to have no sound.

I wish to play sound from my hdmi interface to the TV (direct) so stereo 2.0

I have just disabled my onboard audio as a test and tried using every card, device combination in xbmc system :

audio output plughw:x,x

here is the output of my aplay -l



**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
xbmc@xbmc:~$

Here is alsmixer

┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │
│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │
│ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ │
│ < S/PDIF >S/PDIF 1 S/PDIF 2 S/PDIF 3


somebody please help.

Thank you
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