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I get audio from 720p and 1080p content fine via coax spdif but music and standard def audio doesnt come through. I have XBMC running on ubuntu 10.10. I also do not get any sound out of the OS. Any suggestions on where to look first, I am new to linux.
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Please post a debug log (don't forget to turn on debug logging).
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Also, something that I noticed is that I also do not get any sound out of the other apps in the OS. if I go to hulu or pandora, no audio is sent out of SPDIF. Speaker tests in the sound preferences dont work either.
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I was never able to figure this out completely. I have XBMC working fine but no system sounds. I re-enabled the onboard sound card and set the system to use that. Then in XBMC setup I told it to use the PCI card. Now in XBMC all audio formats play perfectly. But my other audio that would be coming from things like youtube or any thing else I play from anything other than XBMC will go though the on board sound card which is not hooked up.
So the issue is that when the OS boots up it takes control of whatever sound card you tell it to in the sound preferences. XBMC needs to switch between passthrough and other formats, but it cant do the switch because the OS has it in use.
Any ideas on how to get this to work? I hate to ask for it but, my Linux skills are next to none so step by step instructions are what I really need.
Ubuntu 10.10
XBMC 10.0
Diamond Xtreme Sound 7.1 /24bit sound card
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So you're using coax SPDIF out?
What is the output of:
aplay -l
aplay -L
SPDIF should be listed as 'iec958' - Make sure this is unmuted in alsamixer
What do you have set in your audio section?
Try setting the speaker output config to: 2.0
Audio Device: Defaults
Passthrough: iec958
Then, try the following:
sudo nano /etc/asound.conf
Add in the following:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm "iec958"
}
}
I've used this many times to get the MP3 (and system sounds) working, using SPDIF
(Maybe also just do this whilst the onboard audio is disabled, so as to not confuse the issue)