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

[Ashu Desai]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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
>>
>
> My receiver is set for HDMI - and the input shows all the channels. the
> output diagram only shows the front ones - F-L, Center, F-R lit up
>
> And like I said - the center sound comes off the F-L, R-L comes off
> center, LFE comes off F-R, etc
>
> Is there any setting in alsa where it's supposed to be changed? Anywhere
> in drivers?
>
>

Is the signal supposed to be PCM? That's what it shows on my receiver as
the signal type...




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