[mythtv-users] Digital audio: Movies work, music doesn't

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 22:13:13 UTC 2010


On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Michelle Dupuis <mdupuis at ocg.ca> wrote:
> Nope....
>
> Just HDMI from Myth box to display.
>
> For movies, the display decodes audio fine and I hear it.  For music, the display is silent.

So, there is obviously no toslink...  you email show you using hdmi
for audio out...  I guess Im confused now...

> ________________________________________
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Greg Oliver [oliver.greg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 1:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Digital audio: Movies work, music doesn't
>
> 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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