[pbrille]

I connected my ion330 (point of view) with optical cable to my external audio decoder (onkyo). I'm running ubuntu 9.04.
Playback of videos works 100% when audio is digital (dts or dolby) but menu-sounds, mp3 and videos with analog only cannot be heard.
Any ideas?

THX a lot!

[kees667]

did it ever work or first install?
How is audio set up in xbmc?
have you set up alsamixer?

usually audio setup in xbmc is not correct.

[kopetnik]

Try this from the console:
'iecset audio 1'
(see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=58626)

I had the same, iecset command helped.

[pbrille]

I ran
'iecset audio 1'
restarted xbmc. That solved my problem. Thx a lot!

[kopetnik]

Are you able to reproduce this problem again? I think that we should escalate it via TRAC as it's been experienced by several people.

Doing iecset is not the solution as it requires console action.

[Ticiano]

I have this problem here too... It was working when I installed, but then stoped without a reason. 'iecset audio 1' solved for now.

I had a stopage of every sound, PCM or bitstream too.

I think that we have some instabilities with Ion audio.

How can I set the system to run this 'iecset audio 1' at start up? I think that it would help people that wont do terminal comands... normal users.

[Gryph]

The alternative you can do, but alas from a command:

sudo nano /etc/asound.conf

and add:

Code:

pcm.!default {

   type plug
   slave {
       pcm "iec958"
   }

}

Of course, replace 'iec958' with your audio device from the audio hardware settings.

[brownstein]

I ran
'iecset audio 1'
restarted xbmc. That solved my problem. Thx a lot!

I can confirm that this worked for me as well on my Asrock 330.

[Ticiano]

I think that a newer SVN could be more stable with this Ion systems, but I tryed to update XBMC Live to the last SVN using some tutorials I found with no sucess.

[pbrille]

I've experienced the same problem again.
Re-Installed ubuntu and xbmc. At first Audio was working fully, all over sudden analog output not working any more.
I've honestly no idea what causes this problem.
Edit:
Again after correcting with "iecset audio 1" analog sound was gone after installing slurm and munin-node via apt-get ...

[Fitho]

Same problem on Asus p5n7a-vm and alsa 1.0.19.

I've had no problems for ages, but at some time I lost stereo playback, only passthrough. The 'iecset audio 1' solved the issue. Thanks.

[pbrille]

Is there a permanent fix or workaround? It's amazingly annoying. It happens about once a day.
Point Of View ion330 mainboard.
Error occurs with both ubuntu 9.04 and ubuntu mobile (live version installed).
electrical digital audio out is connected to external audio decoder (coax cable).

[thekow]

'iecset audio 1' worked for me too , only started happening since the upgrade to 9.11 now i get crashes when i try to run HD content (mp4 / mkv) ..

[pbrille]

In reinstalled AGAIN with the audio setup described in this tutorial.
I've not experienced the analog audio problem so far.

[pbrille]

Since the xbmc crash I repost:
I'm still getting the analog-audio problem from time to time.
Someone has an idea to fix that long-term?