[jabrake88]

Hello,
I am brand new to XBMC and installed the Live version on a second hard drive on my desktop. The problem I am having is that I can not get my audio to go through my HDMI cable to my TV, no matter what I do it comes through my regular PC speakers. I did install XBMC on in Windows also to test and it worked there just fine. I've gone into the audio manager and unmuted any iec objects that were listed there but nothing changed. I've gone through the settings and changed the audio output to every option in there and get the same results. I've searched but all that I come up with is to unmute those iec outputs. Can anyone please help? Also if someone can tell me how to post log's I can do that.

Thanks,

JB

[rikardo1979]

1st - whats your hardware config ?
2nd - provide your aplay -L

without this info is really hard to help you

also u can have a look here
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=88194

[jabrake88]

Sorry, thought I had put that in there...
AMD Phenom 9100e QUad-Core @ 1.8GHz
4GB Ram
ATI Radeon HD 3200 On Board Video with HDMI out.

As far as the aplay could you tell me how to get that, I really know very little about this yet.

Also I did go into the audio settings and do this from that post you linked but didn't get anything either.

try to change for this

Audio Output Device - custom
and write
hdmi:CARD=Generic

Passthrough Output Device - custom
and write
hdmi:CARD=Generic

Thanks!

[rikardo1979]

Sorry, thought I had put that in there...
AMD Phenom 9100e QUad-Core @ 1.8GHz
4GB Ram
ATI Radeon HD 3200 On Board Video with HDMI out.

As far as the aplay could you tell me how to get that, I really know very little about this yet.

Also I did go into the audio settings and do this from that post you linked but didn't get anything either.




Thanks!

i didn't mean you to do exact what is in that post. that is only info how and where to do it.
so before u do that u need to see that info from aplay
to do that u need to
1. open Terminal (its a application in your system )
3. type aplay -L
4. type aplay -l

than post all that info here

[graysky]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79687

[jabrake88]

i didn't mean you to do exact what is in that post. that is only info how and where to do it.

than post all that info here

Ok, I see what your saying. Below is all that data. I took what you said on the other thread and I did:
Audio Output Device - custom
and write
hdmi:CARD=HDMI

Passthrough Output Device - custom
and write
hdmi:CARD=HDMI

When I did this the sound came from the TV, but the playback was extremely choppy, I couldn't even tell what was playing... Did I do something wrong?
Also when that was working that way all the system sounds would still go through the PC speakers connected to the PC instead of the HDMI.

Code:

**********************
aplay -L
**********************
null
  Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=SB
  HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog
  default Audio Device
front:CARD=SB, DEV=0
  HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog
  Front speakers
surround40:CARD=SB, DEV=0
  HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog
  4.0 Surround Output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB, DEV=0
  HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog
  4.1 Surround Output to Front and Rear speakers
surround50:CARD=SB, DEV=0
  HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog
  5.0 Surround Output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB, DEV=0
  HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog
  5.1 Surround Output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB, DEV=0
  HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog
  7.1 Surround Output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=SB, DEV=0
  HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Digital
  IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=HDMI
  HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI
  HDMI Audio Output



*********************
aplay -l
*********************
List of playback hardware devices
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0