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XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - Krischan_HH - 2013-12-17
Hi everybody!
I have a question regarding XBMC 12.2 using Ubuntu 13.04 with the T&A DAC8 connected via USB to my HTPC. The DAC8 is a high-end digital-to-analogue converter
and Ubuntu detected it as two soundcards. With aplay -l the DAC is recognized as "card 0 device 0" and "card 1 device 1"
XBMC is using card 0 but there are some distortions when playing HD-FLAC files and therefore T&A recommends using card 1 device 1.
How can I tell XBMC to use card 1 device 1?
Regards,
Krischan
RE: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - nickr - 2013-12-18
Does it not show up in audio settings?
How about a debug log?
RE: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - Krischan_HH - 2013-12-18
Hi Nickr,
The DAC is recognized by XBMC and I can select the T&A device under audio settings, but the shown device is the wrong device (card 0 device 0) and T&A recommends
the card 1 device 1. In the XBMC logfile you can see the T&A device with the wrong number. May be it has something to do with ALSA but I'm not quite sure.
Krischan
RE: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - nickr - 2013-12-18
Can you post the debug log to pastebin and post the link here?
RE: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - Krischan_HH - 2013-12-18
Sorry, not possible due to the fact that I had the DAC8 only for one day. I am thinking over to buy me this DAC and in case of need I will connect via SPD/IF.
RE: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - Krischan_HH - 2013-12-27
Is it possible to assign the audio output from XBMC to a native hardware device which is in the aplay -L list, similar to other audioplayers like daphile, gmusicbrowser, DeaDBeef etc...
for instance like "hw:1,1"
Regards,
Krischan
Re: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - nickr - 2013-12-27
Why don't you post the damn debug log.
RE: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - Krischan_HH - 2013-12-28
Ok, ok here is the damned xbmc.log
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=102628Device 5 and 6 is my T+A DAC but you can see that xbmc uses only "DEV=0" but DEV0 produces distortions. Thats why T+A recommends using DEV1.
Thats my aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC898 Analog [ALC898 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC898 Digital [ALC898 Digital]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Device [T+A USB Audio Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Device [T+A USB Audio Device], device 1: USB Audio [USB Audio #1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
And all I want is to use "USB Audio #1"
You can see it in advancedsettings.xml (displayed in xbmc.log). I tried to define the audiooutput. But nothing happened
<audiodevice>ALSA:hw:CARD=Device,DEV=1</audiodevice>
Re: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - nickr - 2013-12-28
One thing to try: set hw:1,1 as default alsa device using asound.conf.
RE: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - fritsch - 2013-12-29
Quote:card 1: Device [T+A USB Audio Device], device 1: USB Audio [USB Audio #1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
That's the one with the spdif in name.
m_deviceName : iec958:CARD=Device,DEV=0
RE: XBMC 12.2.with T&A DAC8 - Krischan_HH - 2013-12-30
This iec958 device produces the distortions due to the fact that this is device 0 and not 1.