[mythtv-users] How to get sound out via HDMI

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
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>> On Mar 7, 2017 11:23 PM, "Ashu Desai" <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> So I checked and there is partial success. The audio now does come out
>>>> via HDMI. However, the 5.1 doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> It somehow thinks only 3 speakers are attached. And so F-L plays on F-L
>>>> speaker. Center plays on F-L speaker. F-R plays on F-R speaker. Rear-L
>>>> plays on F-L speaker and Rear-R plays on F-R speaker.
>>>>
>>>> Pls help...!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> In the screen shot you showed it also had a selector for the number of
>>> channels, which was set to 2 channels. Try toggling that and see if it
>>> improves. Also, there is a command-line tool for alsa called speaker-test
>>> which can help test your setup independent of MythTV. Try it with
>>> "speaker-test -c 6" (the 6 is to indicate 6 channels). You may also have to
>>> specify the device with -D.
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry - but that didn't do anything.
>>
>> the speake-test did the exact same thing. The sound comes out of center
>> channel only when it thinks it's trying to go to rear and LFE.
>>
>> No sound comes at all via the rear speakers
>>
>>
>> I think the speaker test was not supposed to be a solution in itself but
>> a way to quickly test wether a change that you've just made in sound
>> settings is better or worse.
>>
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> Yep - I meant that showed the same thing. No change there.
>
> So as it stands - the sound isn't coming out of any back speakers and not
> coming out right from the front speakers.
>

Are your receiver/amplifier settings correct *for that input*? Is there any
way to see how many channels your receiver thinks it is getting from the
HDMI? (Mine shows a diagram with the active speaker channels lit up).

Karl
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