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XBMC version: 2:10.00~svn33324-lucid1
Ubuntu 10.04 i386
Hardware setup:
The connection made through Coax cable from the blue jack into a coax digital input on
Yamaha RX-V367 Receiver
The receiver is set to Dolby Pro 2 and I have 5 big speakers (1 center, fl, fr, rl, rr)
Here's the result of aplay -l:
Code:
bogdan@bogdan-desktop:/usr/share/alsa/cards$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Command:
Code:
aplay -v -D plughw:CA0106 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
has the below output:
Code:
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
Plug PCM: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S16_LE)
Transformation table:
0 <- 0
1 <- 0
Its setup is:
stream : PLAYBACK
access : RW_INTERLEAVED
format : S16_LE
subformat : STD
channels : 1
rate : 48000
exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
msbits : 16
buffer_size : 16384
period_size : 4096
period_time : 85333
tstamp_mode : NONE
period_step : 1
avail_min : 4096
period_event : 0
start_threshold : 16384
stop_threshold : 16384
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size : 0
boundary : 1073741824
Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'CA0106' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
stream : PLAYBACK
access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format : S16_LE
subformat : STD
channels : 2
rate : 48000
exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
msbits : 16
buffer_size : 16384
period_size : 4096
period_time : 85333
tstamp_mode : NONE
period_step : 1
avail_min : 4096
period_event : 0
start_threshold : 16384
stop_threshold : 16384
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size : 0
boundary : 1073741824
appl_ptr : 0
hw_ptr : 0
iecset has the below output:
Code:
bogdan@bogdan-desktop:~$ iecset
Mode: consumer
Data: audio
Rate: 48000 Hz
Copyright: permitted
Emphasis: none
Category: digital signal mixer
Original: original
Clock: 1000 ppm
I've tried with both Data:audio and Data non-audio (iecset audio on and
iecset audio off) and it makes no difference.
iecset -x
for Data:audio
Code:
bogdan@bogdan-desktop:~$ iecset -x
AES0=0x04,AES1=0x92,AES2=0x10,AES3=0x02
for Data:non-audio
Code:
bogdan@bogdan-desktop:~$ iecset -x
AES0=0x06,AES1=0x92,AES2=0x10,AES3=0x02
The problem is the following. When I first installed XBMC I've configured the following for the audio:
Audio Output: Optical/Coax
Speaker Configuration: 5.0
Dolby Digital and DTS capable receiver: on
Output Audio Device: CA0106 Soundblaster Digital Stereo (IEC958)
Passthrough output Device: CA0106 IEC958
I've got perfect digital sound out, the receiver locked on DTS and everything was ok. What I still had to resolve was to make XBMC run in full screen on my TV (which is setup as secondary display using NVIDIA's twinview setting).
So I've started working on that. Before doing anything I've made a backup for xorg.conf and then I've started editing it following different posts and tutorials. I've even ended up having the 2 displays configured to have their own X server but XBMC didn't run in full screen on my TV no matter what. So I've decided to call it a night, I've reverted to the backup xorg.conf file and shutdown the computer and then went to sleep. In the morning when I woke up I've powerd on the computer and guess what? Digital output wasn't working anymore in XBMC. When starting the DTS movie I've got a popup message saying that "failed to initialize sound device..." and the movie stated but without any sounds. Changing from digital to analog worked but this is not what I wanted.
After lots and lots of days of searching through posts and trying all sorts of things I've decided to post here and get some help.
Let me give you some tests examples and their outcome:
Test1
XBMC configured as below:
Audio Output: Optical/Coax
Speaker Configuration: 5.0
Dolby Digital and DTS capable receiver: on
Output Audio Device: CA0106 Soundblaster Digital Stereo (IEC958)
Passthrough output Device: IEC958
Sound Preferences:
CA0106 Soundblaster
Profile
igital Stereo (IEC958) output/Analog stereo input
start XBMC
start DTS movie....result: failed to initialize audio device.
The XBMC_crashlog contains:
Code:
15:31:02 T:2776677232 M:2632155136 DEBUG: PulseAudio: Found CA0106 Soundblaster Digital Stereo (IEC958) with devicestring pulse:alsa_output.pci-0000_05_02.0.iec958-stereo@default
15:31:02 T:3057039232 M:2632155136 WARNING: Failed to find previously selected audio sink
....
15:42:52 T:3057039232 M:2605543424 DEBUG: Building didl for object '/media/G_Drive/Download SABnzbd/complete/Movies/-= HD =-/Chloe.2009.BluRay.720p.DTS.x264-CHD/chloe.2009.bluray.720p.dts.x264-chd.mkv'
15:42:52 T:2813561712 M:2610814976 ERROR: Initialize - failed to open custom device iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 (error:Device or resource busy), retry with default iec958
15:42:52 T:2813561712 M:2610814976 ERROR: Initialize - pcm_open_lconf, alsa error: -16 - Device or resource busy
15:42:52 T:2813561712 M:2610814976 DEBUG: SetActiveDevice - SetActiveDevice from 2 to 1
15:42:52 T:2813561712 M:2610814976 DEBUG: RemoveActiveDevice - Removing device 2
15:42:52 T:2813561712 M:2610814976 DEBUG: CGUIAudioManager::Initialize
15:42:52 T:2813561712 M:2610679808 ERROR: Creating a Null Audio Renderer, Check your audio settings as this should not happen
15:42:52 T:2813561712 M:2610679808 DEBUG: RemoveActiveDevice - Removing device 1
15:42:52 T:2813561712 M:2610679808 DEBUG: CGUIAudioManager::DeInitialize
As you can see the AESx parameters are wrong.
Full crashlog here:
http://pastebin.com/g0Hvdq9N
Test 2
XBMC configured as below:
Audio Output: Optical/Coax
Speaker Configuration: 5.0
Dolby Digital and DTS capable receiver: on
Output Audio Device: CA0106 Soundblaster Digital Stereo (IEC958)
Passthrough output Device: IEC958
Sound Preferences:
CA0106 Soundblaster
Profile:Analog Stereo Duplex
Start XBMC. Checking System Settings the Audio Output Device changed to:
pulse:alsa_output.pci-0000_05_02.0.iec958-stereo@
default.
Start DTS movie....result..failed to initialize audio device
logs contain:
Code:
5:49:28 T:2778618736 M:2628263936 DEBUG: PulseAudio: Found CA0106 Soundblaster Analog Stereo with devicestring pulse:alsa_output.pci-0000_05_02.0.analog-stereo@default
15:49:28 T:3056809856 M:2628136960 WARNING: Failed to find previously selected audio sink
.....
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609434624 ERROR: Initialize - failed to open custom device iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 (error:Device or resource busy), retry with default iec958
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609434624 ERROR: Initialize - pcm_open_lconf, alsa error: -16 - Device or resource busy
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609434624 DEBUG: SetActiveDevice - SetActiveDevice from 2 to 1
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609434624 DEBUG: RemoveActiveDevice - Removing device 2
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609434624 DEBUG: CGUIAudioManager::Initialize
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609172480 ERROR: Creating a Null Audio Renderer, Check your audio settings as this should not happen
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609172480 DEBUG: RemoveActiveDevice - Removing device 1
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609172480 DEBUG: CGUIAudioManager::DeInitialize
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609172480 DEBUG: SetActiveDevice - SetActiveDevice from 0 to 2
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609172480 DEBUG: RemoveActiveDevice - Removing device 0
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609172480 DEBUG: CNullDirectSound::Initialize - Channels: 2 - SampleRate: 48000 - SampleBit: 16 - Resample false - IsMusic false - IsPassthrough true - audioDevice: iec958
15:52:47 T:2806905712 M:2609172480 DEBUG: CDVDPlayerAudio:: synctype set to 0: clock feedback
Full crashlog here:
http://pastebin.com/wfqTyE2c
Please let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks in advance
