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Hi,
I am having a terrible time trying to get my sound to work in XBMC. I am on Jaunty with the latest XBMC. I have a S/PDIF cable connected to my 9400GT, then a DVI to HDMI to my HD TV. I am using nvidia 185 drivers. I can play MP3 files in Linux and using the Ubuntu MP3 player and the sound from the TV is beautiful but I get no sound from XBMC. Also, I noticed that my HDMI is not listed in below:
xbmc@xbmc:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICE1724 [ICEnsemble ICE1724], device 0: ICE1724 [ICE1724]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICE1724 [ICEnsemble ICE1724], device 1: ICE1724 IEC958 [ICE1724 IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
xbmc@xbmc:~$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Compiled on Nov 9 2009 for kernel 2.6.28-16-generic (SMP).
Any help would be great. Thanx.
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dogk1cker Wrote:card 0: ICE1724 [ICEnsemble ICE1724], device 1: ICE1724 IEC958 [ICE1724 IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
try setting hw:0,1 as your output device in XBMC, or plughw:0,1 or something like that
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Guys,
I tried the various things but nothing is working:
Audio Output Device: default, ICE1724, custom hw:0,1, custom plughw:0,1
Passthrough Outpu Device: iec958, hdmi, custom
I don't get access to iec958 for the Audio Output Device. Any other help would be appreciated. Thanx.
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2009-11-12, 23:49
(This post was last modified: 2009-11-13, 00:15 by JUICESIX90.)
First off, Kudos to you for writing this guide, excellent stuff & something I didn't even realise was possible!
Quick break down of my equipment:
Acer Revo
Ubuntu Jaunty
XBMC
HDMI out into Onkyo 606
5.1 Aego T Surround Sound
I seem to be getting close to this working as when my Revo boots up, the Onkyo displays: PCM Multi CH HDMI Stereo
And I can hear (for the first time ever!) the nav sound in XBMC
However as soon as try and play a movie the Onkyo reverts back to dts (it's default setting) and I loose sound.
When I then stop the movie the nav sounds have gone. If I quit xbmc and go to System > Preferences > Sound Preferences I can no longer select Playback: HDA NVIDIA pulse audio from the default mixer track drop menu, although pulse audio is selectable from the all drop menus above. I can only get it (and the nav sounds) back if i go into terminal and type pulseaudio --start
Any idea why this may be happening?
I do run into a few problems when running through the guide, I'll list them below:
PART 1 SETTING UP ALSA
sudo adduser `who | awk '{print $1}'` audio
I get the message
adduser: Only one or two names allowed.
PART 3: SETTING UP THE SYSTEM THE PULSEAUDIO WAY
/usr/bin/amixer -q -c 0 sset 'IEC958 Default PCM',0 unmute
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
/usr/bin/amixer -q -c 0 sset 'IEC958',0 unmute && /usr/bin/amixer -q -c 0 sset 'IEC958',1 unmute
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'IEC958',1
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Hi !
You should not use dts bitstreaming along with pulseaudio. But you don't need it, as now you have lpcm multichannel audio. Just untick the dts,ac3 capability in xbmc's sound setup and you should be fine.
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Hi alanwww1, not sure if that reply was meant for me or not but if it was then I already have both dts & AC3 switched off.
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I too have an Acer Revo.
I saw the note that this ONLY works with v 185 of the nvidia drivers... What will I be missing from v 190 of the nvidia drivers?
I mainly stream my movies and tvshows over my local network.
I have a Pioneer 1018 ahk receiver with HDMI inputs (supports the 2 new HD audio + all the regular stuff) .
Is this something I will need to do to get proper 5.1 sound?