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

[John P Poet]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:30 AM Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
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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:
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> 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...!
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> 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.
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> Karl
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> Sorry - but that didn't do anything.
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> 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.
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> No sound comes at all via the rear speakers
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Karl
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> 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
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> And like I said - the center sound comes off the F-L, R-L comes off
> center, LFE comes off F-R, etc
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> Is there any setting in alsa where it's supposed to be changed? Anywhere
> in drivers?
>

I have not been following this discussion so I apologize if this has
already been covered, but in mythfrontend you have gone into "Setup ->
Setup Wizard -> Next ...", right?

John
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