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reluctantflux · 2010-07-24, 04:42

AuxBox, your script is fantastic! Your latest script is the only way I've been able to get non juttery sound for navigation, and more importantly, sound to work at all with my video files. Unfortunately, I was messing with some settings, and seemed to break the no-juttery sound for navigation function. So I went into your script to see where this was addressed and couldn't find it. Any idea how to fix it if it gets reverted?

Also, noticed 2 errors in the script.

Line #3: The first add-apt-repositories is missing the "a" in "add"

Line #6: There's an "s" in front of "aptitude" that shouldn't be there.

Those are the only typos I found.

Then there's the last line (sed -i). It says it cannot find /etc/vdr/setup.conf

Although I think that might have to do with it not being able to find my tv-tuner card.

So I've installed Ubuntu x64 Server 10.4, then run your script (with the corrections) and things are further than I've been able to get them on my own in the last week. Thanks again for the great script.

Now I just need to figure out this SPDIF passthrough issue, and figure out how to install my V-Box Cat's Eye 150 ATSC TV Tuner card so VDR can see it.

AuXBoX · 2010-07-24, 06:15

reluctantflux Wrote:AuxBox, your script is fantastic! Your latest script is the only way I've been able to get non juttery sound for navigation, and more importantly, sound to work at all with my video files. Unfortunately, I was messing with some settings, and seemed to break the no-juttery sound for navigation function. So I went into your script to see where this was addressed and couldn't find it. Any idea how to fix it if it gets reverted?

I think the sound issue is to do with the setting in xbmc

Quote:Also, noticed 2 errors in the script.
Line #3: The first add-apt-repositories is missing the "a" in "add"
Line #6: There's an "s" in front of "aptitude" that shouldn't be there.
Those are the only typos I found.

Fixed, thanks for testing, i haven't been able to test it properly

Quote:Then there's the last line (sed -i). It says it cannot find /etc/vdr/setup.conf
Although I think that might have to do with it not being able to find my tv-tuner card.

If it cannot see your card vdr won't work.

Quote:Thanks again for the great script.

Quote:Now I just need to figure out this SPDIF passthrough issue

do you won't to use spdif?

reluctantflux · 2010-07-24, 07:03

Yeah, I want to passthrough my audio signal and have my AVR do the decoding. Tried changing Audio Output Device and Passthrough Device to variations of plughw:0,4 ; iec985:CARD=XFi, DEV=0 ; surround51:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

Only changed the custom stuff within XBMC. Just digging into the asound files now.

aplay -l

Code:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 0: ctxfi [Front/WaveIn]

  Subdevices: 7/8

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2

  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3

  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4

  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5

  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6

  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7

card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 1: ctxfi [Surround]

  Subdevices: 8/8

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2

  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3

  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4

  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5

  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6

  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7

card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 2: ctxfi [Center/LFE]

  Subdevices: 8/8

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2

  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3

  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4

  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5

  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6

  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7

card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 3: ctxfi [Side]

  Subdevices: 8/8

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2

  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3

  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4

  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5

  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6

  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7

card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 4: ctxfi [IEC958 Non-audio]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

aplay -L

Code:
null

    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

default:CARD=XFi

    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn

    Default Audio Device

front:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn

    Front speakers

rear:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, Surround

    Rear speakers

center_lfe:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, Center/LFE

    Center and Subwoofer speakers

side:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, Side

    Side speakers

surround40:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn

    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround71:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn

    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

iec958:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

    Creative X-Fi, IEC958 Non-audio

    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

and here's my /usr/share/xbmc/

Code:
# downmixing to 2 channels

pcm.xbmc_71to2 {

  @args.0 SLAVE

  @args.SLAVE {

    type string

    default "default"

  }

  type plug

  slave.pcm $SLAVE

  slave.channels 2

  route_policy duplicate

  ttable.0.0 1          # front left speaker

  ttable.1.1 1          # front right speaker

  ttable.2.0 0.7        # rear left speaker

  ttable.3.1 0.7        # rear right speaker

  ttable.4.0 0.7        # center to left mapping

  ttable.4.1 0.7        # center to right mapping

  ttable.5.0 0.5        # LFE (base) to left mapping

  ttable.5.1 0.5        # LFE to right mapping

  ttable.6.0 0.6        # SL to left mapping

  ttable.7.0 0.6        # SR to right mapping

}

# downmixing to 2 channels

pcm.xbmc_51to2 {

  @args.0 SLAVE

  @args.SLAVE {

    type string

    default "default"

  }

  type plug

  slave.pcm $SLAVE

  slave.channels 2

  route_policy duplicate

  ttable.0.0 1          # front left speaker

  ttable.1.1 1          # front right speaker

  ttable.2.0 0.7        # rear left speaker

  ttable.3.1 0.7        # rear right speaker

  ttable.4.0 0.7        # center to left mapping

  ttable.4.1 0.7        # center to right mapping

}

# downmixing to 2 channels

pcm.xbmc_50to2 {

  @args.0 SLAVE

  @args.SLAVE {

    type string

    default "default"

  }

  type plug

  slave.pcm $SLAVE

  slave.channels 2

  route_policy duplicate

  ttable.0.0 1          # front left speaker

  ttable.1.1 1          # front right speaker

  ttable.2.0 0.7        # rear left speaker

  ttable.3.1 0.7        # rear right speaker

  ttable.4.0 0.7        # center to left mapping

  ttable.4.1 0.7        # center to right mapping

}

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Lookin like I gotta do something about all this "downmixing to 2 channels".

AuXBoX · 2010-07-25, 02:47

what happens when you do these

Code:
speaker-test -D iec958:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

Code:
aplay -D iec958:CARD=XFi,DEV=0 SURROUNDTEST_DD_640.wav

reluctantflux · 2010-07-26, 03:19

AuXBoX Wrote:what happens when you do these

Code:
speaker-test -D iec958:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

I get this:

Code:
/root$ speaker-test -D iec958:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

Channels count (1) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument

speaker-test 1.0.22

Playback device is iec958:CARD=XFi,DEV=0

Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels

Using 16 octaves of pink noise

Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument

AuXBoX Wrote:
Code:
aplay -D iec958:CARD=XFi,DEV=0 SURROUNDTEST_DD_640.wav

This results in a lot of hissing in my front left speaker.

gott_sei_dank · 2010-07-29, 02:02

I thought this is a good a place as any to ask this question;

What is happening with the pvr-testing branch, has Alwinus taken a well deserved extended holiday, presumably there shouldn't be many problems merging with the main trunk when normal service is resumed.

AuXBoX · 2010-08-12, 04:07

gott_sei_dank Wrote:I thought this is a good a place as any to ask this question;

What is happening with the pvr-testing branch, has Alwinus taken a well deserved extended holiday, presumably there shouldn't be many problems merging with the main trunk when normal service is resumed.

It's just been updated!!

gott_sei_dank · (This post was last modified: 2010-08-12, 19:43 by gott_sei_dank.)

Yeah I noticed Big Grin

It works a lot better now and I'm back using vdr-testing branch from yavdr. My only issue at the moment is Iplayer not working so I'm not sure if hepi included librtmp support in his build.

edit:
I just checked the build-log and no support for librtmp Confused

ad I'm also having framerate issues with HD channels and mono sound continues to be a problem in XBMC in this instance with stations broadcasting mono MP2 despite these minor quibbles, mostly excellent progress has been made and it has been well worth the wait.

hepi · 2010-08-13, 14:19

For my current experimental XBMC packages I have disabled rtmp support because I had problems getting the packages to compile on Launchpad with enabled rtmp. But this can change soon: I plan to include rtmp soon if possible.

Cheers,
hepi

ant_thomas · 2010-08-16, 01:17

Probably not the best place to post on here but my setup is pretty much identical (except I'm using Streamdev) to what is outlined in this thread.

Currently running Lucid which was upgraded via the command line from Karmic and I'm running r32595 of the pvr-testing branch.

All this works great except I'm unable to shutdown my system now. All that happens is XBMC closes, blank screen for a short while then starts again. I'm having to SSH in and shutdown from the command line.

pkaction gives me this...

Code:
xbmc@xbmc-ant:~$ pkaction

org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart

org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users

org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop

org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users

org.freedesktop.policykit.exec

org.freedesktop.policykit.lockdown

org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate

org.freedesktop.upower.qos.cancel-request

org.freedesktop.upower.qos.request-latency

org.freedesktop.upower.qos.request-latency-persistent

org.freedesktop.upower.qos.set-minimum-latency

org.freedesktop.upower.suspend

Not sure what else to do! Any ideas how to sort it?

AuXBoX · 2010-08-16, 02:13

did you try

Code:
sudo apt-get install ivman

ant_thomas · 2010-08-16, 17:41

AuXBoX Wrote:did you try

Code:
sudo apt-get install ivman

Yeah, no luck.

I might just try a fresh install of Lucid and XBMC PVR-Testing. Better backup my bits!

ant_thomas · 2010-08-16, 22:30

How utterly annoying.

I did a full fresh install of ubuntu 10.04 minimal and followed all your instructions (including installing ivman) and it still won't shut down.

AuXBoX · 2010-08-17, 01:56

It's works for me, not sure why it wouldn't for you. How are you trying to shut it down?

ant_thomas · 2010-08-17, 10:28

By pressing the power button on my remote (MCE) or selecting shutdown from the shutdown menu. The shutdown option is set to shutdown and not suspend in case you were wondering.

For the moment I've made a bash script to use in XBMC that just executes "shutdown -h now" so that's a workaround for the moment.