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

[Ashu Desai]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:42 AM, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> 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
>
>
>

John
That's just a one stop shop I believe. You can go directly to Audio part if
that's all you want to set up. I don't need changing my Video portion. But
I tried that as well. It's the same thing.




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