[charlie0440]

My HTPC has been playing videos with audio fine for the last few weeks. Then suddenly the audio has just stopped. I hadn't changed the audio settings. I had been installing other packages and created a new user (could it be lightdm at fault?).

My previous audio settings were:

output: alsa:hdmi:CARD=GENERIC,DEV=0
passthrought: alsa:hdmi:CARD=GENERIC,DEV=0

So I've been playing around trying to get the sound working again. I have menu sound working. My aplay-l and asound.conf (I have been playing with the asound.conf trying to get my sound back) looks like this:

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
#card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
#  Subdevices: 1/1
#  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
#card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
#  Subdevices: 1/1
#  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
#card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
#  Subdevices: 1/1
#  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pcm.!default {
        type  plug
        slave.pcm "hdmi0"
}

pcm.analog {
        type hw
        card 1
        device 0
}

pcm.digital {
        type hw
        card 1
        device 1
}

pcm.hdmi0 {
        type hw
        card 0

Code:

aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=Generic_1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
  HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    Hardware device with all software conversions

If I set xbmc audio setting as follows:
output: default (alsa)

The sound works for MP2 stereo etc but any DTS streams states "failed to initiate"