2010-10-22, 13:43
Why doesn't xbmc LIVE support digital audio pass through? Can it be that it uses pulseaudio?
xbmcuser01 Wrote:Why doesn't xbmc LIVE support digital audio pass through? Can it be that it uses pulseaudio?
Failed to initialize audio device. Check your audio settings.
xbmcuser01 Wrote:Rebooted w/ Live CD again. Of course set soundcard to my pass tru capable sound device (I've a TV card too: that one has an alsa audio "device" on it too). Set DTS and AC3 receiver etc. etc. But every thing (DD or stereo) returns the same well known error:
When I set xbmc live to use analogue instead of digital: no error (I've only got the dig. mini coax wire connected to my Amp. No analog cable, but I think analog works).Code:Failed to initialize audio device. Check your audio settings.
If I close down xbmc, log in w/ username=xbmc/passwd=xbmc and apt-get install mplayer I can play movies w/ passtru! So it's definitely a setting in xbmc or xbmc Live has troubles w/ pass tru. Stated up xbmc again w/ startx and choosing xbmc from the menu. Same probs again.
Has anybody actually succeeded in passing through a digital audio stream from xbmc Live to an Amp?
Note: dig. pass tru does work on this very same machine w/ Ubuntu 10.04, no pulseA & XBMC.
spiff Wrote:lol. yes, me and thousands and thousands of users. very likely your passthrough device is the wrong one then. you can specify it using custom.That's very, very weird. On my Linux box the audio device = iec958 and the pass tru device = iec958 too. The only other audio device (w/ iec958) I can choose is: C-Media CMI8738 Default, which also works.
prae5 Wrote:You have set the wrong output device.One must set an audio device and a pass tru device in XBMC. See my post above. What device must I choose according to you? Because I've tried all possible combinations in xbmc live: none work, exept in analog instead of digital. Weird, aint it?
spiff Wrote:very weird. only thing i can think of is a regression in alsa. we use alsa-backports to get at newer drivers (basically what's in maverick).Yep. I even tried to copy my buntu 10.04 .asoundrc and .asoundrc.asoundconf. Caused xbmc live to crash into the desktop environment (dunno if it was xfce or enlightenement...). Although I fear that they've been created by PA (the term asoundconf is mentioned in said conf file. And Synaptic babbles something about advising PA for that...).