[mythtv-users] Samsung PS50A550 and Asus M3N78-VM HDMI Sound (Debian MythtTV)

Jongi jongitech at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 22:17:31 UTC 2009


I am running this alsa

ii  alsa-base                         1.0.19.dfsg-2 

Regards,
Jongi


On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 15:06 -0700, John Andrunas wrote:

> You likely need to update ALSA I believe 1.0.19 is the first version
> that supported audio over HDMI for Nvidia, I have Asus M3-N78-Pro and
> that is what I had to do.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jongi <jongitech at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Samsung is my Plasma TV. The Asus is my Motherboard. It has a
> > GeForce 8200 Video card and I am using the HDMI out on the motherboard
> > to connect to the plasma. The video is pretty goood I have to say. My
> > main issue is that the sound is not coming through the TV.
> >
> > I have the following for aplay -L
> >
> > front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> >    HDA NVidia, VT1708B Analog
> >    Front speakers
> > surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> >    HDA NVidia, VT1708B Analog
> >    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
> > surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> >    HDA NVidia, VT1708B Analog
> >    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> > surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> >    HDA NVidia, VT1708B Analog
> >    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
> > surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> >    HDA NVidia, VT1708B Analog
> >    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> > surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> >    HDA NVidia, VT1708B Analog
> >    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
> > iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
> >    HDA NVidia
> >    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
> > null
> >    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
> >
> >
> > aplay -l shows
> > mythtv-debian:~# cat aplay.txt
> > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> > card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: VT1708B Analog [VT1708B Analog]
> >  Subdevices: 2/2
> >  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> >  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> > card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
> >  Subdevices: 1/1
> >  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> >
> > I have even gone with a ~/.asoundrc for all users that looks like (and
> > this was the last step I treid to get it working)
> >
> > mythtv-debian:~#
> > cat .asoundrc
> > pcm.!default
> > {
> >  type
> > plug
> > }
> >
> > pcm.analog {
> > type plug
> > slave.pcm "analog-hw"
> > }
> >
> > ctl.analog {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > pcm.mixed-analog {
> > type plug
> > slave.pcm "dmix-analog"
> > }
> >
> > ctl.mixed-analog {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > pcm.digital {
> > type plug
> > slave.pcm "digital-hw"
> > }
> >
> > ctl.digital {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > pcm.mixed-digital {
> > type plug
> > slave.pcm "dmix-digital"
> > }
> >
> > ctl.mixed-digital {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > pcm.analog-hw {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > ctl.analog-hw {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > pcm.digital-hw {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > ctl.digital-hw {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > pcm.dmix-analog {
> > type dmix
> > ipc_key 1234
> > slave {
> >   pcm "analog-hw"
> >   period_time 0
> >   period_size 1024
> >   buffer_size 4096
> >   rate 48000
> > }
> > }
> >
> > ctl.dmix-analog {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > pcm.dmix-digital {
> > type dmix
> > ipc_key 1235
> > slave {
> >   pcm "digital-hw"
> >   period_time 0
> >   period_size 1024
> >   buffer_size 4096
> >   rate 48000
> > }
> > }
> >
> > ctl.dmix-digital {
> > type hw
> > card 0
> > device 3
> > }
> >
> > This is on a Debian Lenny system that is still pretty much stable bar
> > for the kernel, alsa, nvidia (kernel-sources and related files), lirc
> > and gcc packages. These are the latest unstable versions while
> > everything else is still stable.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
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> 
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