[ATrpms-users] Updated from fedora 10 to 12 and have issues with no sound from spdif

[O&M Ugarcina]

On 12/04/2009 12:42 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:43 AM, O&M Ugarcina<mo.ucina at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hello Guys,
>>
>> @Richard and TJ
>>
>> Much appreciate your help .  I took your advice and removed all the config
>> that I had put in before . I also deleted the ~.pulse directory since there
>> was a lot of playing around with pavucontrol . I returned asound.conf to
>> default which was :
>>
>> #
>> # Place your global alsa-lib configuration here...
>> #
>>
>> @hooks [
>>      {
>>          func load
>>          files [
>>              "/etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf"
>>          ]
>>          errors false
>>      }
>> ]
>>
>> And rebooted the machine . So all should be as was just after the upgrade to
>> fedora 12 . The alsamixer is set to unmute of iec958 and volume set to max .
>> Then I went into myth and under General setup changed my device from
>> ALSA:default to ALSA:spdif . And I have some sound now . By some I mean I
>> have sound on channels that are stereo , but nothing with ac3 or dts . Also
>> in my media library files with stereo sound play ok , while ac3 and dts
>> iso's and other filetypes are totally silent .
>>
>> Other players such as vlc mplayer and xine I could not get to produce any
>> sound either with stereo or ac3/dts material no matter what settings I made
>> in their respective audio tabs .
>>
>> My setup is onboard optic spdif - no discrete sound card - motherboard asus
>> p5b . So some small but important progress finally .
>>      
> Without knowing the specific configurations of xine and mplayer you've
> tried I'm not completely sure what to tell you, however, at a minimum
> you need to set the following line in xine either in the preferences
> or by hand in .xine/config:
>
> audio.speaker_arrangement:Pass Through
>
> Now, that being said I think xine has some default for which device is
> the passthrough device which may or may not be correct for your setup.
> By the way, what does the output of "aplay -l" look like for you?
>
> Richard
>
>    
Hello Richard,

the pass-through setting I have with xine is as per above , as this 
setup has been working perfectly all the way from fc6 to f10 .

My aplay is as follows :

[mythtv at localhost ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[mythtv at localhost ~]$ aplay -L
default:CARD=Intel
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Digital
     IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
     Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
[mythtv at localhost ~]$

Br

Milorad