2010-01-27, 05:46
Quick Background: After hearing forever about how great XBMC is, I figured I'd try it out. I DL'ed The XBMC Live .iso, burned it and used it to install XBMC 9.11 on a 8GB USB drive. The PC boots from the USB drive and I'm in... so far, so good. I then hooked up a 500GB external drive full of my DVD rips. I went to the "Video" screen and there was the drive. Great! But when I went to play a movie (.VOB files), no sound. While the picture looks good, the message reads "Failed to Initialize Audio Device."
I am using an older HP DC5000 SFF PC. It did not have digital audio when I got it so I added a "Siig SoundWave 5.1 PCI-LP Sound Card - Tremor + 16xx - PCI - 20 bit - Internal" Card. I have the SPDIF (optical) output hooked into my JVC receiver. I know the card works, as I get Dolby Digital when playing the same file using Media Player Classic, VLC and Media Center 2005 from within Win XP.
I have been through the forums and do not see the solution, but I certainly cannot be the first fellow to have a digital/SPDIF dilemma. Unfortunately, I know JACK about XBMC.
Does anyone know the solution? Thank you in advance for any help you can lend.
I am using an older HP DC5000 SFF PC. It did not have digital audio when I got it so I added a "Siig SoundWave 5.1 PCI-LP Sound Card - Tremor + 16xx - PCI - 20 bit - Internal" Card. I have the SPDIF (optical) output hooked into my JVC receiver. I know the card works, as I get Dolby Digital when playing the same file using Media Player Classic, VLC and Media Center 2005 from within Win XP.
I have been through the forums and do not see the solution, but I certainly cannot be the first fellow to have a digital/SPDIF dilemma. Unfortunately, I know JACK about XBMC.
Does anyone know the solution? Thank you in advance for any help you can lend.