[Fjerpje]

Hi people,

I've got my Asrock 330HT connected with and optical cable to a Logitech z5500 set.

When i run a movie the SPDIF connection is actualy working but when i want to listen to some music i cannot here any music.

Could someone please help me out? Thanks allot.

I'm actualy thinking about using Windows 7 with media center because i'm already buzy for 3 days to fix some isues

Greetz,
Fjerpje

[tosh]

I have the same problem but under XP
if you play music with dvdplayer ?(context menu,play with, choose dvdplayer and not paplayer) (this work for me).

if I run my audio out to hdmi (ati audio), music (with paplayer) operates on the speakers of my TV.
With my optical out (ASUS Xonar), no music with paplayer, but works with dvdplayer. Also sounds menu xbmc works

Before installing my ati card (HDMI), everything worked perfectly.

[gsgleason]

What is your audio output set to in your xbmc settings?

[Fjerpje]

My current settings are:

- Digital output
- AC3 compatible
- DTS compatible

- Soundouput device
- default

- transfer soundoutput
- iec958

I just cannot hear sound in XBMC when i play .mp3 files. And than i have another problem wich is that my dvd player of the Asrock wont open when i played it. I have to manualy restart the system before i can get the DVD out.

Anyone familiar with this also?

Greetz
Fjerpje

[kees667]

try

- Soundoutput device
- iec958

[Fjerpje]

try

- Soundoutput device
- iec958

Do i have to custom insert it? Because i can't select it from the list.

[Csimbi]

Hi all,
I have have the exact same problem.

Movies appear to play fine, but nothing can be heard while Music is being played.

Ubuntu 9.10 32bit, i686
Zotac 9300-G-E board, Intel E3200.

Notes:
- I do have the updated Alsa drivers, v1.0.22.1.
- I cannot hear the ticks that XBMC is producing normally on key presses/navigation.
- The music appears to be playing (can see the spectrum analyzer jumping)
- I have the same settings as Fjerpje above, and I can select iec958 as sound output, but then I cannot hear any sound on both Movies and Music.

aplay -L:

Code:

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=NVidia
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI
    HDMI Audio Output

aplay -l

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Thank you.

[snoxbox]

Is it just music that doesn't play, or ALL ANALOG sound? I get this occassionally on my xbmc live install. Videos with DTS/AC3 work fine, but those with mp3, nav sounds, and music, don't.

The fix is in the 2nd post of this thread:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=35901

[Csimbi]

Is it just music that doesn't play, or ALL ANALOG sound? I get this occassionally on my xbmc live install. Videos with DTS/AC3 work fine, but those with mp3, nav sounds, and music, don't.

The fix is in the 2nd post of this thread:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=35901

Music and navigation. Other than that, I do not have analog sounds - just DVDs.

The fix you mentioned did not work.

But. I saw some posts about alsamixer, and after messing around a little, I did find a solution.
As it turns out, there are three SPDIF devices on my ZOTAC 9300-G-E using the updated Alsa drivers, v1.0.22.1:
- S/PDIF
- S/PDIF Default PCM
- S/PDIF 1
Here are the S/PDIF settings before (audio not working):

Here are the S/PDIF settings after (audio working):


So, as it turns out,
S/PDIF controls Analog audio (and is NOT enabled by default)
S/PDIF Default PCM controls Digital audio (and is enabled by default)
I have no idea about S/PDIF 1, turning it on/off has no effects whatsoever.

So snoxbox, while your referred solution did not solve my problem, I did find hints about fixing mine. And for that, thank you.