[xb4me]

Please help. HDMI audo via xbmc works great for movies, and music. I passthru direct to my yamaha amp. Even truehd works. Somehow, and now I forget how, I got netflix audo ( and other firefox audio ) working launched via advanced launcher. This was great, but it suddenly stopped working, and I just cannot figgure it out. I have tried everything I can think of or read, and nothing seems to work.

Here is my setup:

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


and aplay -L

null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
sysdefault:CARD=Intel
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
Hardware device with all software conversions
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Hardware device with all software conversions

Previously I had the following file:

more /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!defaut hdmi:NVidia
pcm:iec958 hdmi:NVidia


For grins I tried replacing it with:

pcm.!default {
type hw
card NVidia
device 3
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card NVidia
device 3
}


but neither of these work anymore.

I just don't get it, how do I diagnose this. It is really frustrating, I want my netflix back...

[fritsch]

amixer | pastebinit
and:
Debug Log

[xb4me]

amixer | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6846715/

And the log:
https://vzcat.com/misc/xbmc.log

[DaVu]

The log is not on an trust-site

take http://xbmclogs.com/ for pasting logfiles

[fritsch]

15:58:30 T:3007674176 NOTICE: Device 5
15:58:30 T:3007674176 NOTICE: m_deviceName : hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
15:58:30 T:3007674176 NOTICE: m_displayName : HDA NVidia
15:58:30 T:3007674176 NOTICE: m_displayNameExtra: MEI Panasonic-TV on HDMI
15:58:30 T:3007674176 NOTICE: m_deviceType : AE_DEVTYPE_HDMI
15:58:30 T:3007674176 NOTICE: m_channels : FL,FR,LFE,FC,BL,BR,SL,SR
15:58:30 T:3007674176 NOTICE: m_sampleRates : 32000,44100,48000,88200,96000,176400,192000
15:58:30 T:3007674176 NOTICE: m_dataFormats : AE_FMT_LPCM,AE_FMT_AC3,AE_FMT_DTS,AE_FMT_EAC3,AE_FMT_TRUEHD,AE_FMT_DTSHD,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S16LE

Looks okay, basically as it should. Check that nothing is muted.

[xb4me]

Nothing is muted. Also once again xbmc works fine, it is other applications that do not have audio. Also the other funny thing is it worked fine previously, and I did nothing to muck with the audio config. The only thing I did do was apt-get upgrade/update..., but I am not even sure that is related.

Can anyone recommend something further to try? speaker-test runs fine but outputs nothing. Logging into xbmcbuntu yields no sound. I just don't get it. What should my next step be?

[xb4me]

I fixed my problem, I thought I would write it up incase it helps anyone else. First off this is a Jetway NC98-525E-LF ion2 with nvidia hdmi chipset.

Code:

uname -a
Linux minitv 3.5.0-40-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 00:57:36 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

And I upgraded to xbmc 12.3, but it did not fix my problem.

Previously somehow... I had it working with xbmc and firefox audio via advanced launcher with audio over the nvidia hdmi, then it suddenly stopped working. Previously, somehow I was using the nvidia audio and ignoring the intel audo device also present. When I originally posted, XBMC audio was working great, both passthu and gui audio, but no audio whatsoever through firefox, and speaker-test -D plughw 1,3 ( which worked before ) ran fine, but did not output any sound.

So, after getting no help I just started trying stuff. I figgured the problem was somehow related to having two different audio devices ( just a guess ), so I went into the bios trying to diable the intel device that I was not using anyway. There is only one audio setting in the bios I could find, and that was "HD audio" I set it to disabled, and rebooted. After that, I got a different 'aplay -l' list as follows:

Code:

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Previously I was only showing 1 Nvidia HDMI device, now I have 4 ( and no Intel ). So now booting into xbmcbuntu desktop, I ran alsamixer and now there were 3 more spdif devices not previously found ( all muted ). So, unmuting those new devices, and I finally got some noise from speaker-test with:

Code:

speaker-test -D plughw 0,7

speaker-test -D plughw 0,3, 0,8, and 0,9 all work but output no audio...

Progress, I figgure for sure. Now I tried to edit /etc/asound.rc with the new card and device numbers, like so:

Code:

more /etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
        device 7
}

ctl.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
         device 7
}

And rebooted, but that did nothing. I think I finally made it work by modifying ~/.asoundrc file like so:

Code:

pcm.dmixer {
   type dmix
   ipc_key 1024
   ipc_key_add_uid false
   ipc_perm 0660
   slave {
      pcm "hw:0,7"
      rate 48000
      channels 2
      format S32_LE
      period_time 0
      period_size 1024
      buffer_time 0
      buffer_size 16384
   }
}

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

After the reboot, with XBMC running, speaker-test still fails, but netfix thru firefox works like a charm. I am not sure about the sugnificance of asound.conf or ~/asoundrc, or what in them is important, but something there did the trick. A reboot is necessary. Also I had to change the xbmc audio settings after the bios diable step to get xbmc working again... Hope this helps someone, I am happy ;-)

[toasterboy1]

Thanks for this thread. It got my Nvidia sound over HDMI working so I could watch Netflix.