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I am running Sam's image on a thumb drive plugged into my apple tv 1. Everything works fine (except sound). I am using the digital coax out and not the hdmi or composite.
Here is something odd, I have menu sounds but no sound from my movies.
I also have xbmc installed under the osx on the harddrive in the apple tv 1 and that plays the sound fine.
Please point me in the right direction.
Tia
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You have to change the custom output to 0,1 from 0,3. There's an alsa command which gives you the list of the devices on your system for this output. 3 is HDMI and 1 is coax out.
I also had to set the speaker numbers to 2 instead of 5.1 to play some MP3 mono files. Even with this setting it will still play 5.1/DTS, etc, at least as well as it can.
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You need to use the IEC951 device and not the custom which is for HDMI in audio settings
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I have a similar problem, but I'm trying to get sound working over HDMI. Where is this changed?
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still no sound here... can anyone help?
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You usually have to set both audio outputs to custom then select plughw:0,3 and that should do it.
compcentral do usb hard drives work with your linux install on the ATV ?
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Yeah.. after speaking with Sam, I discovered that custom option and its working great now. I've never tried USB hard drives, but my understanding was that they didn't work with the ATV1.
