2012-04-15, 15:04
Hi there, I asked a question a few weeks ago that never got answered, basically. I'm using XBMC 11.0 final installed on a minimal ubuntu 10.10 setup.
The problem is that any audio files that are in a non standard sample rate, e.g 22khz\32khz are giving silence when played in XBMC. The vizualisations indicate that sound is being output and my receiver is acting as if there is a loose connection, on the LED of the receiver the word "HDMI" flickers on and off. Wheras it should stay solid - and does for all other media.
From research I have gathered that XBMC isn't converting the 22khz\32khz audio for output at a a standard sample rate like 44.1khz\48khz, etc.
Further reading showed that this could be down to missing dependencies in my Ubuntu minimal install. I have tried different versions of ubuntu with exactly the same results.
The strange thing is that these audio files are say 30 mins long but XBMC is saying they are about 2 hours long in some cases.
I have verified it is not a problem in the audio streams by playing them on a computer and even my sqeezebox setup plays them fine, both a radio and a squeezebox receiver. The audio files in question are from different sources too and analysis shows they all have non standard sample rates but that is their only similarity.
So, is this a bug in XBMC? a dependency issue? I would really like to solve this.
I have already installed the libmad0 dependency that is always needed to get any mp3 to play correctly at all.
Thanks,
The problem is that any audio files that are in a non standard sample rate, e.g 22khz\32khz are giving silence when played in XBMC. The vizualisations indicate that sound is being output and my receiver is acting as if there is a loose connection, on the LED of the receiver the word "HDMI" flickers on and off. Wheras it should stay solid - and does for all other media.
From research I have gathered that XBMC isn't converting the 22khz\32khz audio for output at a a standard sample rate like 44.1khz\48khz, etc.
Further reading showed that this could be down to missing dependencies in my Ubuntu minimal install. I have tried different versions of ubuntu with exactly the same results.
The strange thing is that these audio files are say 30 mins long but XBMC is saying they are about 2 hours long in some cases.
I have verified it is not a problem in the audio streams by playing them on a computer and even my sqeezebox setup plays them fine, both a radio and a squeezebox receiver. The audio files in question are from different sources too and analysis shows they all have non standard sample rates but that is their only similarity.
So, is this a bug in XBMC? a dependency issue? I would really like to solve this.
I have already installed the libmad0 dependency that is always needed to get any mp3 to play correctly at all.
Thanks,