2008-09-24, 02:33
Sup People! I wanted to contribute back to the community. I have a soundrc file I wish to share with you all incase it may be of help.
In Short: After I stopped with the svn xbmc and went to the PPA xbmc distribution for linux, I suddenly found none of my vids with ac3 encoded audio would playback any audio. But all other audio would. So I installed the digital out daughter board on my sound card (SPDIF). Great! Now I have ac3 playback but now have 2 channels on my reciever for xbmc. 1) Analog, 2) Digital. So I changed the default on Ubuntu in the MediaSelector to have iec958 (Digital/SPDIF) as the default output. I then changed my .asoundrc to "pcm.!default spdif". This worked except I noticed I had no mp3 playback!!! So I edited my .asoundrc to be like my original with upmixing/downmixing but to have spdif as default device (I shall attach this config as well as "OLD asoundrc"). Also this old config I think is like analog even though my amp detects digital.
Ok now I had all playback except the xbmc skin UI sounds! For F$%#!!! So today I started a new asoundrc config from other configs I downloaded ages ago! And finally SUCCESS!!!! I have playback of every sound event! I have the skin UI sounds (mono wav files I noticed). So we got mono playback on digital out. I got MP3 playback. So got Stereo playkback on digital out. I still have AC3 (Dolby PL II) plackback and the amp detects DD PL II. And I have DTS playback. Amp detects "Digital".
So I am so happy I want to share with you all. Also my config outputs 48K sample audio, but I think it could be easily changed to 44.1K if you needed to. Not sure there. And with this config the most one would need to do is change the device number on card 0 to what ever your system is for digital out. Use the aplay -l command to find your playback dev # on your soundcard dev #. For me its card 0, Dev 2. For some maybe Card 0, dev 1, or whatever.
Cheers!
Paul.
P.S The good current config is "TUXBMC Digital asoundrc"
Tho old config will have old in the file name.
Opps! Thought I could attached files to posts. Ok here are the links
http://www.4shared.com/file/64200355/214...undrc.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/64200359/28f...LDbak.html
In Short: After I stopped with the svn xbmc and went to the PPA xbmc distribution for linux, I suddenly found none of my vids with ac3 encoded audio would playback any audio. But all other audio would. So I installed the digital out daughter board on my sound card (SPDIF). Great! Now I have ac3 playback but now have 2 channels on my reciever for xbmc. 1) Analog, 2) Digital. So I changed the default on Ubuntu in the MediaSelector to have iec958 (Digital/SPDIF) as the default output. I then changed my .asoundrc to "pcm.!default spdif". This worked except I noticed I had no mp3 playback!!! So I edited my .asoundrc to be like my original with upmixing/downmixing but to have spdif as default device (I shall attach this config as well as "OLD asoundrc"). Also this old config I think is like analog even though my amp detects digital.
Ok now I had all playback except the xbmc skin UI sounds! For F$%#!!! So today I started a new asoundrc config from other configs I downloaded ages ago! And finally SUCCESS!!!! I have playback of every sound event! I have the skin UI sounds (mono wav files I noticed). So we got mono playback on digital out. I got MP3 playback. So got Stereo playkback on digital out. I still have AC3 (Dolby PL II) plackback and the amp detects DD PL II. And I have DTS playback. Amp detects "Digital".
So I am so happy I want to share with you all. Also my config outputs 48K sample audio, but I think it could be easily changed to 44.1K if you needed to. Not sure there. And with this config the most one would need to do is change the device number on card 0 to what ever your system is for digital out. Use the aplay -l command to find your playback dev # on your soundcard dev #. For me its card 0, Dev 2. For some maybe Card 0, dev 1, or whatever.
Cheers!
Paul.
P.S The good current config is "TUXBMC Digital asoundrc"
Tho old config will have old in the file name.
Opps! Thought I could attached files to posts. Ok here are the links
http://www.4shared.com/file/64200355/214...undrc.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/64200359/28f...LDbak.html