[mythtv-users] Audio on HDMI - Need more suggestions

[Bill Williamson]

Excuse topquote, on phone

That log you posted shows 1.0.21 mixed with 1.0.22.

1. Versions need to be the same.
2. You need at least 1.0.23.


On Saturday, July 24, 2010, Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> Jurgen Kramer wrote:
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> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 23:03 -0400, Don Brett wrote:
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> I have a new installation of MythDora-12, works pretty well, but I haven't gotten audio onto the HDMI wire yet.  The PC has an Asus motherboard with nvidia built-in sound, the video board is an nvidia-220.  I followed this tutorial (which is pretty good):
>
> http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_set_up_HDMI_audio_on_nVidia_GeForce_G210%2C_GT220%2C_or_GT240
>
> It looks like everything is right, but still no sound on the HDMI connection.  So far:
>
> - built and installed alsa-driver from source
> - added "enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0xffff,0xfff2" to /etc/modprobe.d/dist-alsa.conf
> - created this "/etc/pulse/default.pa", and put "load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,3" into it
> - unmuted the s/pdif device with alsamixer
> - added user mythtv to the audio group
> - changed mythtv "audio output device" to ALSA:plughw:0,3
> - sound works through the regular speakers
> - this test runs "speaker-test -c6 -twav -Dplughw:0,3", but nothing comes out of the speakers
>
>
> Anyone have a suggestion on what to try next?  By the way, is pulse-audio needed for this...everyone seems to talk about it, but the tutorial barely mentions it.
>
>
> PS - ...and I got this from aplay -l
>
> [mythtv at vanson ~]$ aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> [mythtv at vanson ~]$
>
>
>
> Can you try without "probe_mask=0xffff,0xfff2" and see if maybe another
> device like 0,5, 0,7, 0,8 (or whichever devices will appear) will be the
> actual device you need? On my GT220 I need to use 0,7 (In my case it's
> 1,7 because the onboard audio is device 0).
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> I removed the probe_mask, but I'm not really sure how to check it.  So, I ran "alsa-info.sh" and it's output is here:
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> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=1154be82a2f59d3d1276ccdf854e9b21a3e17f85
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> ....can you decode any of it?
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