[PATCH] Dual Audio Output support for XBMC (Eden Updated)

Margro, you rock as always. Thank you.

Teedubb,

My pulse problems happened a long time ago -- probably a year or two ago, so my memory is a bit faded. What I recall was that the problem started because I couldn't reach some audio devices via pulse.

For example, I could specify the stereo 3.5mm jack on my sound card, but not the coaxial digital output jack. After fighting to fix this, I gave up and had XBMC access that device directly via ALSA. However, every time pulse was updated (via the Ubuntu update center) -- pulse would change around my sound device assignments. This would require me to go and reset XBMC back to ALSA.

So, I just removed pulse. Since I have a dedicated XBMC computer -- it didn't hurt me to remove pulse.

Linux should allow for dual audio without this patch, at least through ALSA, but I've never set it up. I considered trying Loto_Bak's asound.rc file:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...#pid744019

There's probably a pulse way as well too.

Thanks for the link, but unfortunately no passthrough audio with that asound.rc file.

Very soon Im going to setup xbmc and see how well it works with pulseaudio and dual audio output.

Hi All

I have the same problem as someone else on here I try to add the Dual Audio file XBMC-11.0-dx-DualAudio and I get a message The Computer Can't Start Because SDL.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

I have looked in the XBMC folder and it is there i have also added a copy to WIN32 but to no avail any ideas?

Lee

Teedubb,

Yes, that's correct, I had forgotten that example won't support passthrough DTS / DD-AC3.

But, if I remember correctly, an asound configuration can support pass-through on a digital output and a simultaneous analog output -- but the example I saw broke with 44.1k PCM (mp3) playback over toslink because it always directly passed-through the digital stream.

Ivonovak posted this asound file he uses, but I'm not sure what it is doing:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?pid...post775093

Let us know if you getting it working in pulse or ALSA.

HI,

I've been using the patch for a few day now, seems to work really good, but I do notice on some trailers for DVD's there is no sound and then when the movie start all of a sudden I have sound? Anyone else had experience of this?

(2012-07-13 16:59)Seaco Wrote:  Hi All

I have the same problem as someone else on here I try to add the Dual Audio file XBMC-11.0-dx-DualAudio and I get a message The Computer Can't Start Because SDL.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

I have looked in the XBMC folder and it is there i have also added a copy to WIN32 but to no avail any ideas?

Lee

Did you add the xbmc file from the zip to /program files/xbmc/ folder and replaced the original xbmc file?

Could someone explain how I would get this working on my system? I have no idea how to patch stuff?

Try this: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1125937

Don't know if that link was for me, but that was even more confusing.

I am running Windows 7 if that helps?