OK ... you will not believe this ... I'VE FIXED IT !!!! WHOOOOHOOOOOO !!!! EVEN IN DHARMA !!!
The idea came to me because of what Hoozel said about the HDMI handshake a few posts back. I didn't what to play with cables etc. But one thing that made me think was the edid.bin file I created in step one of this thread. This file was extracted with the nVidia driver when I had my unit directly connected to the Hitachi plasma and used ever since.
First things first. I've made an effort to study the format of the file using a HEX editor and the reference from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_di...ation_data ... decoding the file I saw that the screen only supported stereo sound (obviously). Then I started thinking, what if I edit the file and add all the features I wanted.
This is exactly what I've done. Downloaded the source and program from : http://sourceforge.net/projects/edideditor/ ...
Used it to open the edid.bin file I had already and added AC3 and DTS to it. I tried this edid file with XBMC 9.11, but it didn't work as I had hoped. Out of pure despiration I changed my xorg.conf file and commented the following two lines :
First made sure I've got HDMI selected on all options in the Audio section, then restarted XBMC and ... IT WORKED !!! ...
... it f-ing worked .... Not to stop there, I re-installed Dharma and made the same changes to it ... IT WORKS !!!!
If anybody out there could explain to me how changing video stuff can influence audio stuff and why this worked, I'll be very happy.
The idea came to me because of what Hoozel said about the HDMI handshake a few posts back. I didn't what to play with cables etc. But one thing that made me think was the edid.bin file I created in step one of this thread. This file was extracted with the nVidia driver when I had my unit directly connected to the Hitachi plasma and used ever since.
First things first. I've made an effort to study the format of the file using a HEX editor and the reference from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_di...ation_data ... decoding the file I saw that the screen only supported stereo sound (obviously). Then I started thinking, what if I edit the file and add all the features I wanted.
This is exactly what I've done. Downloaded the source and program from : http://sourceforge.net/projects/edideditor/ ...
Used it to open the edid.bin file I had already and added AC3 and DTS to it. I tried this edid file with XBMC 9.11, but it didn't work as I had hoped. Out of pure despiration I changed my xorg.conf file and commented the following two lines :
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "NoDDC"
Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/home/xbmc/edid2.bin"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
[color=green][b]# Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"
# Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1920x1080_60_0 +0+0"[/b][/color]
Option "HWCursor" "Off"
Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "False"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSectionFirst made sure I've got HDMI selected on all options in the Audio section, then restarted XBMC and ... IT WORKED !!! ...
... it f-ing worked .... Not to stop there, I re-installed Dharma and made the same changes to it ... IT WORKS !!!!If anybody out there could explain to me how changing video stuff can influence audio stuff and why this worked, I'll be very happy.
