DVD Issue along with SPDIF issue.

I had the same problem some time ago on my Windows machine, dont know if it is any help.. but my problem seemed to lie with my settings.

DTS and DD5.1 can be send trough digitalout in difrent kind of ways, but each reciever supports only some of them.

For example the data can be send 'Wrapped' of 'Padded', when your setup is to send it 'Wrapped' but your reciever doesnt support that, you wont hear a thing.
Seems there can be lots of reasons why Spdiff passtrough doesnt work, you do get stereo/analog sound over digitalout? and then when you play DD5.1/DTS you here nothing, or do you just get 2.0 on the reciever?

Try to play with the settings, but again, i dont own a Optical-Out system yet with linux on it so i never tried it.. will get a n630i board soon too.. so then I will face the same problem i guess Only thing i know is after i played with the settings for a long time in AC3Filter i finally got it to work..

Let us know if you get any further.. think more people own this board or are planning to.

No way to edit you post here i see..

well maybe a idea to install an other Mediaplayer to test whether it works in that one.. like MPlayer or some.. if it does you know it's XBMC or the config.. if it doesnt it's probably the config under Linux...

Don't know if you tried this before..

Btw, are you trying to get the Spdiff working over HDMI, or just the seperate Spdiff-Out (Optical/Coax)?

Hrm, I need to know more about this "Linux mint" - what's different? It looks to be a distro all it's own - gah! No way am I going to dump this install again lol. Okay MAYBE I'll backup what I've managed so far and try it. Honestly I'll be interested to see where the Devs wind up with regards to building a distro for XBMC. Now that I know others have DVD playback working, from VOB right?, I know it's my Linux setup and not XBMC. Ouch, here I thought it was the Alpha software's internal video player. Seems I might be up late again tonight!

Razor_109 Wrote:No way to edit you post here i see..

well maybe a idea to install an other Mediaplayer to test whether it works in that one.. like MPlayer or some.. if it does you know it's XBMC or the config.. if it doesnt it's probably the config under Linux...

Don't know if you tried this before..

Btw, are you trying to get the Spdiff working over HDMI, or just the seperate Spdiff-Out (Optical/Coax)?

I'm using the Optical out.

I tried with VLC this morning. Set VLC to out put over SPDIF with a 5.1 mkv file. As long as VLC was set to Stereo it sent a perfect stereo signal to the receiver. As soon as I set it to send 5.1 my receiver acts like it isn't even receiving a signal.

So it's definitely something with my Linux install and not a XBMC problem.

again, I'm a fresh linux user. Been using it stedily for about 3 months now for this and on my primary pc so I'm learning more and more everyday. I'll keep testing and see if I can get it to work. Pretty soon I'll be able to wipe my Windows partition on the HTPC currently running "Mediaportal"<--Which I hate.

I'm having the same DVD playback issues as the topicstarter with a whole bunch of DVD iso's (from local disc btw) where XBMC hangs at the "buffering" screen, like the screenshot in the startpost.

I can provide xbmc.log if needed.