2014-11-09, 18:52
Hello everybody,
in my setup i have a HTPC with XBMC 13.2 on a Ubuntu-Linux 14.04LTS Server. It is connected via HDMI to my TV. Sound is done by an old Yamaha AV-Receiver without HDMI, so it is connected directly to the TV via S/PDIF. The HTPC is always on, i just turn on/off the TV.
Iam using this setup for years now, but now i want to be able to play musik with XBMC without turning on the TV. On the hardware side this is very easy: The Yamaha receiver has a AUTO-Input detection with a fallback to analog, if no S/PDIF-Signal is detected. So, if my TV is turned off, it would be easily possible to play musik using the analog interface. So the idea was to make my HTPC to put out sound on HDMI as well as on analog output.
I found this guide to do this using ALSA. It basically works, at leas for playing music. But when i try to play a Movie with digital multichannel sound the playback is stuttering and makes XBMC crash very often. In the logs i found the message
Do you have any hints for me? My config is exactly as in the guide, except the HDMI output is on card 0 (and i do not need any module-parameters because of intel hardware).
in my setup i have a HTPC with XBMC 13.2 on a Ubuntu-Linux 14.04LTS Server. It is connected via HDMI to my TV. Sound is done by an old Yamaha AV-Receiver without HDMI, so it is connected directly to the TV via S/PDIF. The HTPC is always on, i just turn on/off the TV.
Iam using this setup for years now, but now i want to be able to play musik with XBMC without turning on the TV. On the hardware side this is very easy: The Yamaha receiver has a AUTO-Input detection with a fallback to analog, if no S/PDIF-Signal is detected. So, if my TV is turned off, it would be easily possible to play musik using the analog interface. So the idea was to make my HTPC to put out sound on HDMI as well as on analog output.
I found this guide to do this using ALSA. It basically works, at leas for playing music. But when i try to play a Movie with digital multichannel sound the playback is stuttering and makes XBMC crash very often. In the logs i found the message
Quote: ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to rendererSo there seams to be a issue with passthrough. Unlike the guide i didnt found a way to set a custom passthrough device in 13.2 (even in expert mode), so i tried to set in advancedsettings.xml without success.
Do you have any hints for me? My config is exactly as in the guide, except the HDMI output is on card 0 (and i do not need any module-parameters because of intel hardware).