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Thanx in advance for taking a look. Any help would be great.

I've been up & down these forums all week trying all kinds of combinations & I've reinstalled "Live" sometimes up to 4 times a day to try new combos of tips.

2 weeks ago I purchased as ASUS AT3IONT-I Deluxe board. It's plugs into my 42" Vizio through HDMI.

My problem is that playing .avi movies produce a "machine gun" sound. The default clicks of the menus, music .mp3 & movie .mp4 & .iso all play fine.

This is my current setup:
Linux XBMCLive 2.6.32-33-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 21:08:37 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC887 Analog [ALC887 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC887 Digital [ALC887 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

ALSA version:
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Compiled on Jun 1 2011 for kernel 2.6.32-33-generic (SMP).

nVidia Driver:
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 280.13 Wed Jul 27 16:55:43 PDT 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5)

In Audio output I have:
Audio Output: HDMI
Speaker Config: 2
Boost volume: *
Dolby Digital: *
DTS capable:
Audio output device: Custom
Custom device: plughw:0,3
Passthrough device: Custom
Custom device: plughw:0,3

This is how I got here:
# on fresh install : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=89258
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot

# Unmute S/PDIF in alsamixer
alsamixer
aplay -l

# this made no sound for me
aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

# this did push static
speaker-test -D plughw:0,3

# created this file
nano /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm {
type hw
card 0
device 3
}
}

# & tried with the same results

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm "hdmi"
}
}

Also to note, the xbmc.log gives the following error when I play an .avi movie that plays noise instead the audio stream:

22:57:56 T:2832309104 M:1257476096 WARNING: PulseAudio: Does not support passthrough
22:57:56 T:2832309104 M:1253031936 ERROR: Initialize - failed to open custom device plughw:0,3,AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 (error:No such file or directory), retry with default plughw:0,3

read this , go forth and solve thy problem.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_set_u...C_or_GT240

one silly mistake you already may have borked your system was doing apt-get dist-upgrade thats a classic how to fuck up your system in 1 minute or less.

Thank You X3lectric for your reply. I've seen many of your posts through out these forums and thank you for your contributions.

Ironically I've been to that wiki page several times but never implemented it because I wasn't sure it applied to my device.

I'll start with another clean install, remove the dist-upgrade from my steps and follow the wiki. I'll be back.

yes it clearly mentions your product exactly

X3lectric Wrote:read this , go forth and solve thy problem.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_set_u...C_or_GT240

As X3lectric stated, problem solved, thanx for the push.
The only problem was when I ran the line
It tanked the install and gave me the login rather then the XBMC app so I reinstalled and left that line out.

I'm refining the install steps I took to get this system up and running with the AT3IONT-I Deluxe board for any other Newbie like myself that comes along.

Thanx again for your help.