[mythtv-users] Digital audio: Movies work, music doesn't
Greg Oliver
oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 17:48:03 UTC 2010
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Michelle Dupuis <mdupuis at ocg.ca> wrote:
> I got movies playing great over my toslink connection using the hw:1,3 device. However, using the same device DOESNT work with music!
>
> There are no errors in the console, and myth thinks that it's playing music just fine, but nothing comes out the speakers! I tried to play wav file from the command line to that device and got the same result!
>
> I played with my asound.conf settings (see below) and tried sending the audio to the 'convert' device in case it's a format mismatch...still no go. Anyone can help???
>
> --------------------------------------
> [root at theatre2 ~]aplay -L
> null
> Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
> front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog
> Front speakers
> surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog
> 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
> surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog
> 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog
> 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
> surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog
> 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog
> 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
> iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Digital
> IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
> hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI
> HDMI Audio Output
> --------------------------------------
> [root at theatre2 ~]aplay-l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> [root at theatre2 ~]
> --------------------------------------
> pcm.rate_convert {
> type plug
> slave {
> pcm "hw:1,3"
> # channels 2
> rate 48000
> }
> }
So you're going hdmi -> display -> toslink -> receiver ?
I used to have a Sony STR-DA line of receiver that had to be put on
PCM (rather than auto decode) for any non DD/DTS/THX, etc... audio
formats.. Don't ask me why...
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