2009-06-30, 09:58
Hey all,
I've been using the minimal hardy install instructions from the day they came out and have gotten a semi decent xbmc setup with no suspend but played hd with surround sound. Bottom line, I got sound. Now I ditched that setup due to inconsistency and no suspend as mentioned, and got myself full blown Jaunty Ubuntu and set up XBMC from there on the nicely rendered GUI of Ubuntu. I then removed pulse audio support of the system (didn't actually remove pulse audio to make sure the environment was still stable. Then, unmuted all the IEC968 options in alsamixer. My Master, PCM, and Front are all unmuted (Front so I can play analog audio outside). When I went to System>Preferences>Sound, ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) was selected in all the panels, including mixer. I cannot play SPDIF audio even when it clearly is selected in XBMC options. I cannot play any HDMI audio either. Would I be able to add a configuration with HDMI playing sound as well as SPDIF in some kind of asoundrc or asoundconf that's been mentioned in other threads? Everything is working great videowise on my XBMC setup with full Jaunty, so with digital audio I'll finally have a perfectly working XBMC Linux setup to play beautiful HD instead of my rather dated Xboxes
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys.
I've been using the minimal hardy install instructions from the day they came out and have gotten a semi decent xbmc setup with no suspend but played hd with surround sound. Bottom line, I got sound. Now I ditched that setup due to inconsistency and no suspend as mentioned, and got myself full blown Jaunty Ubuntu and set up XBMC from there on the nicely rendered GUI of Ubuntu. I then removed pulse audio support of the system (didn't actually remove pulse audio to make sure the environment was still stable. Then, unmuted all the IEC968 options in alsamixer. My Master, PCM, and Front are all unmuted (Front so I can play analog audio outside). When I went to System>Preferences>Sound, ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) was selected in all the panels, including mixer. I cannot play SPDIF audio even when it clearly is selected in XBMC options. I cannot play any HDMI audio either. Would I be able to add a configuration with HDMI playing sound as well as SPDIF in some kind of asoundrc or asoundconf that's been mentioned in other threads? Everything is working great videowise on my XBMC setup with full Jaunty, so with digital audio I'll finally have a perfectly working XBMC Linux setup to play beautiful HD instead of my rather dated Xboxes
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys.