2009-09-20, 00:44
Hi,
After wasted hours of searching on the internet/xbmc forum the way to make my Spdif works, I found a thread in the xbmc passion forum but it is in French...
Unfortunately, I did not find this information on the official xbmc forum
So, here is the English translation checked by myself :
For information, IEC958 corresponds to optical output and / or digital RCA.
HDMI is named as such under Linux
[Note from redactor : My hardware is an Asrock ION working with Ubuntu 9.04 & Alsa 1.018]
To begin you must activate the IEC958 output which is disabled by default:
Open the the gnome volume controller and activate the IEC958 like on the picture
Close the gnome volume controller.
To be sure settings are saved, you can write in your terminal :
[Note from redactor : Do not take care if you get error message]
WARNING: Under Ubuntu 9.04 there is a bug that can be circumvented in this way:
Open a terminal and write
add one of the 3 lines below that corresponds to your hardware
into the gedit editor and close it with accepting changes
To activate SPDIF output, in your terminal, write :
Copy exactly the following text into the gedit editor and close it with accepting changes
Now that your asound (or. Asoundrc) is properly done, you can configure the sound on XBMC. To do this go to / Settings / System / Audio Hardware.
The default settings "Digital" is ready for its optical
That should work
After wasted hours of searching on the internet/xbmc forum the way to make my Spdif works, I found a thread in the xbmc passion forum but it is in French...
Unfortunately, I did not find this information on the official xbmc forum
So, here is the English translation checked by myself :
For information, IEC958 corresponds to optical output and / or digital RCA.
HDMI is named as such under Linux
[Note from redactor : My hardware is an Asrock ION working with Ubuntu 9.04 & Alsa 1.018]
To begin you must activate the IEC958 output which is disabled by default:
Open the the gnome volume controller and activate the IEC958 like on the picture
Close the gnome volume controller.
To be sure settings are saved, you can write in your terminal :
Code:
sudo alsactl store 1
WARNING: Under Ubuntu 9.04 there is a bug that can be circumvented in this way:
Open a terminal and write
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Code:
options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig
options snd-hda-nvidia model=6stack-dig
options snd-hda-ati model=6stack-dig
To activate SPDIF output, in your terminal, write :
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/asound.conf
Copy exactly the following text into the gedit editor and close it with accepting changes
Code:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm "iec958"
}
}
Now that your asound (or. Asoundrc) is properly done, you can configure the sound on XBMC. To do this go to / Settings / System / Audio Hardware.
The default settings "Digital" is ready for its optical
That should work