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2014-01-16, 22:53
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-16, 22:53 by fritsch.)
@evanpurkhiser: passthrough will only work if no other device plays audio. If you want to get it mixed, disable AC3, DTS and configure with pavucontrol to have e.g. 5.1 or something, if you are on hdmi.
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@fritsch: Yep, I totally get that, I'm not looking to mix other audio during playback =) It can just be a little confusing when I get no passthrough because another program kept a sink-input alive even though it wasn't really using it (In the case of MPD being paused, I can understand why it would want to keep the sink-input active though). I may take a look around and see if it's possible to get PulseAudio to kill input-sinks when passthrough is requested.
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Besides that passthrough is working for you? and you see the DTS / Dolby Sign on the AVR?
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Any special things, one needs to do to get it configured? Though I programmed it - I could not get it to work :-)
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@fritsch: Other than just enabling the AC3 and DTS formats with `pactl set-sink-formats 0 "pcm;ac3-iec61937;dts-iec61937a"`, enabling passthrough in the XBMC options, and making sure no other applications were using PA (`pacmd list-sink-inputs`), it just worked!
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Ubuntu is the orphan always something... I really think the Ubuntu releases are better LTS > LTS anything else is I found to less reliable.
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Can you get me a pacmd list-sink-inputs when you are actually playing such an ac3 file?
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He is asking you to type on a terminal
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pacmd list-sink-inputs
And pastebin the results and post link.