2011-04-18, 07:17
I've finally moved my XBMC install onto my main TV setup (Samsung DLP, Onkyo SR-806). Due to the vagaries of the Onkyo, I could never get the computer to display (DVI/HDMI via an NVidia card) and play sound (via the soundcard - analog or SPDIF) at the same time - pretty sure it is a bug in the Onkyo firmware, as I could hear the sound when I was in the setup menu for the receiver, but not otherwise.
After days of frustration, I gave up and bought an ATI 5450 card. An hour later, I had sound and video. Best $40 I've ever spent.
My current problem is that sound is abnormally low in XBMC. In every other app (Firefox playing YouTube, WinAmp, VLC) the sound is loud and clear. In XBMC (Windows Vista, ATI 5450), it is muffled and low.
I've checked everything I can think of - I've looked at message boards for hours and all I see are a bunch of messages forlornly asking similar questions or suggestions to use "Audio Mixer" - which appears to be an XBMC Live-only plugin. It doesn't appear in the list of available program plugins - I even went to the extreme of finding a ZIP file of the 1.0.6 version of the plugin and manually installing it, but XBMC does not display it, so presumably it's not valid for Windows/Dharma 10.1.
Suggestions to modify the advancedsettings.xml to change the "headroom" left a lot to be desired - is higher better than lower? Vice versa?
I've tried both Dharma 10.0 and 10.1 to no avail.
Any ideas?
- Derf!
After days of frustration, I gave up and bought an ATI 5450 card. An hour later, I had sound and video. Best $40 I've ever spent.
My current problem is that sound is abnormally low in XBMC. In every other app (Firefox playing YouTube, WinAmp, VLC) the sound is loud and clear. In XBMC (Windows Vista, ATI 5450), it is muffled and low.
I've checked everything I can think of - I've looked at message boards for hours and all I see are a bunch of messages forlornly asking similar questions or suggestions to use "Audio Mixer" - which appears to be an XBMC Live-only plugin. It doesn't appear in the list of available program plugins - I even went to the extreme of finding a ZIP file of the 1.0.6 version of the plugin and manually installing it, but XBMC does not display it, so presumably it's not valid for Windows/Dharma 10.1.
Suggestions to modify the advancedsettings.xml to change the "headroom" left a lot to be desired - is higher better than lower? Vice versa?
I've tried both Dharma 10.0 and 10.1 to no avail.
Any ideas?
- Derf!