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Firstly I would like to thank all the XBMC team for their effort in providing the best home theater media system.
Now to my problem,
I have my HTPC (Core 2 DUO E2200, 4 GB RAM, ATI 6450, Win 7 x64, latest XBMC frodo nightly) connected to my Yamaha RX-V663 and then to my Samsung 46C650 TV in a line using HDMI.
When I activate my Yamaha to manipulate the sound, everything is working great I can hear DTS, DTS-HD and every codec I through at it.
Also the video playback is smooth without any drop frame.
When I let my Yamaha to pass through the sound to my TV I can hear only to 2channell codecs, no AC3 or DTS. Also the video playback of movies with multichannel track is extremely jaggy and unwatchable. Shouldn't XBMC down mix AC3 and DTS to 2channell for my tv?
I have a raspberry and it can downmix DTS stream without a hitch!!!!
I use WASAPI for both audio output settings in XBMC
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Hey DDDamian,
I tried the recent Alpha, I still have the same issues; if I start up XBMC Frodo A6 and play a DD5.1 Video the sound is garbled; again switching to a DTS-HD video and back again
solves the issue.
I've updated to the latest driver for the HDMI audio driver and still no joy... Any ideas.. any additional logs I can capture to try and help you out ?
Cheers
Gary
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I have an issue with Audio Device not saving on reboot.
I'm running a ATI HD5550 (which does bitstreaming) using the 2012.10.04 nightly (although its being doing this for the last month of nightlies, mainly since the introduction of the new AudioEngine) and I select HDMI + 5.1 in the settings, and then select AMD HDMI (DirectSound) as the audio device and passthrough.
On reboot the audio device is now a long string of numbers and letters, and I have to manually set it back to DirectSound.
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very very noob question.. i'm just completely newbish when it comes to this stuff..
i have an hdtv connected to my htpc. no receiver or anything. what should i set my sound settings too? no sound card.. just an sandy bridge cpu with a Intel G630 mobo... using windows 7
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2012-10-07, 20:00
(This post was last modified: 2012-10-07, 20:05 by Death-Axe.)
Hi, since you fixed the trans coding thing (thanks again) some audio formats are causing the speakers to make little popping sounds, mostly on music and on some shows. I'm thinking it could be something to do with mp3s?
What does anyone make of this?
Edit: speaking of transcoding; when AAC is transcoded to AC3, 5.1 audio becomes 2.0 audio is there a way to fix that?
HTPC: Motherboard: Asus F2A85-V, CPU: AMD A10 6800K, RAM: Kingston XMP BEAST 16GB, Samsung 840 EVO 250GB, LG CH12NS30 Blu-Ray drive, Samsung, and WD various 2 and 3TB for storage, Windows 8.1, one for all remote/FLIRC, Logitech z906 surround system.
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Bkam
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Every time i start XBMC i get not sound so when i look at my settings it has picked a HDMI source but after it its alot of numbers. So i have to manualy change HDMI source to get any sound
Using a Intel I3
Any ide what can be wrong?
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I run XBMC on vista, and I have to press a button on the remote to start XBMC (just in case we want the HTPC for other reasons), doing this means the HTPC has been on for a few minutes, so I cant see that effecting it.
But stranger things have happened....
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After looking at the Logs (the 5 second delay doesn't help unfortunately). I saw this error
15:15:57 T:1716 ERROR: CAESinkWASAPI::AddPackets: Endpoint Buffer timed out
15:15:57 T:1716 ERROR: CAESinkWASAPI::AddPackets AudioClient reset failed due to AUDCLNT_E_NOT_STOPPED
15:15:57 T:3912 ERROR: Previous line repeats 7452 times.
and the second line is repeated many times and many repeats.
15:15:57 T:1716 ERROR: CAESinkWASAPI::AddPackets AudioClient reset failed due to AUDCLNT_E_NOT_STOPPED
15:15:57 T:3912 ERROR: Previous line repeats 35099 times.
The error comes about because the skin is trying to play an audio file for the menu (up/down etc), and as soon as I manually chance the Audio Device the error clears up.
One suggestion is to disable WASAPI, by going to Windows audio control panel and unchecking "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device"
Thats where I am atm... so i'll check back after the reboot and a cup of tea!