[mythtv-users] .24 Audio results: mixed

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 18 June 2010 17:17, Douglas Peale <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
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> These are the options I have under "Audio output device:"
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> ALSA:front:card=intel,DEV=0
> ALSA:front:card=HDMI
> ALSA:iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
> ALSA:null
> ALSA:pulse
> ALSA:surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
> ALSA:surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
> ALSA:surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
> ALSA:surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
> ALSA:surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
> PulseAudio:default
> /dev/dsp
> /dev/dsp2
> /dev/adsp
> JACK:output
> NULL
> ALSA:default
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> Of these, PulseAudio:default would be my first choice, but this causes the front end to hang.

what version of pulseaudio are you running ?

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> ALSA:pulse is my second choice, this also causes the front end to hang.
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> I tried ALSA:iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0, but I got noise instead of sound.

This will occur if you have checked AC3 and DTS, but your amp doesn't
support it.

You say you have two audio cards in your system, the onboard one and
the video card one, which I'm guessing would be ALSA:front:card=HDMI
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> ALSA:default gets me sound with "Speaker configuration" set to 5.1 or 7.1 and DTS and Dolby Digital enabled. If I try setting
> "Speaker configuration" to stereo, the pass through options disappear.

you don't want stereo based on your system, but if using PulseAudio,
then you want pulse because that's the default of pulse...

if ALSA:default is at the end, it sees it because that's what you
manually entered before and it's there as the original setting

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> The rest of the options don't seem like they are appropriate, or I have no idea what they mean, so I did not try them.
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> I leave the "Upconvert stereo to 5.1 surround" unchecked because my receiver can do that, and the receiver will tell me when it
> is getting surround or just stereo then.

in any case, unless you provide the audio logs I've asked earlier, I
wont' be able to help any further