[mythtv-users] Sound issues still...

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 06:43:28 UTC 2009


Hi

2009/11/4 Scott <list-mythtv at bluecamel.eml.cc>:
> I have HDMI sound working for Live TV, Recorded TV, and DVD playback now. My
> box is the ASRock 330 ION which should be similar to the Zotac 8300 from
> what I can see.
> For live tv viewing I had to enable the option Settings -> TV Settings ->
> Playback -> General Playback -> Extra audio buffering. If I didn't I would
> see "WriteAudio: buffer underrun" logged with sound breakups when watching
> Live TV. The other Settings -> General -> Sound config I used was:
> Audio output device: ALSA:default
> Passthrough output device: Default
> Max Audio Channels: Stereo
> Upmix: Passive
> AC3 audio upmixer - unchecked
> Enable AC3 to SPDIF passthrough - unchecked
> Enable DTS to SPDIF passthrough - unchecked
> Agressive Sound card Buffering - unchecked
> Use internal volume controls - unchecked
> And my /etc/asound.conf looks like this:
> pcm.!default {
>   type plug
>   slave.pcm "hdmi"
> }
> I'm running JYA's stable 0.21-fixes with Ubuntu 9.04 at the moment.
>

If you're using my repo, you would only get stereo sound then, not 5.1

If you want surround sound you have to set the max audio channels to 5.1


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