<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:55 PM, A JM wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'm going to finally try and tackle the sound issue with my box currently he volume is way to low.<br><br>I ran 'aplay -L' and this was the result:<br><br><i>front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0<br> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog<br>
Front speakers<br>surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0<br> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog<br> 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers<br>surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0<br> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog<br> 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers<br>
surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0<br> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog<br> 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers<br>surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0<br> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog<br> 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers<br>
surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0<br> HDA NVidia, ALC888 Analog<br> 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers<br>hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0<br> HDA NVidia<br> HDMI Audio Output<br>null</i><br>
<br><br>The board I'm using is an Zotac 8300 with HDMI, originally I wasn't able to get the HDMI sound working but was curious if anyone had any successes with this board or had some suggestions.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have HDMI sound working for Live TV, Recorded TV, and DVD playback now. My box is the ASRock 330 ION which should be similar to the Zotac 8300 from what I can see.</div><div><br></div><div><div>For live tv viewing I had to enable the option Settings -> TV Settings -> Playback -> General Playback -> Extra audio buffering. If I didn't I would see "WriteAudio: buffer underrun" logged with sound breakups when watching Live TV. The other Settings -> General -> Sound config I used was:</div><div><br></div><div>Audio output device: ALSA:default</div><div>Passthrough output device: Default</div><div>Max Audio Channels: Stereo</div><div>Upmix: Passive</div><div>AC3 audio upmixer - unchecked</div><div>Enable AC3 to SPDIF passthrough - unchecked</div><div>Enable DTS to SPDIF passthrough - unchecked</div><div>Agressive Sound card Buffering - unchecked</div><div>Use internal volume controls - unchecked</div></div><div><br></div><div>And my /etc/asound.conf looks like this:</div><div><br></div><div><div>pcm.!default {</div><div> type plug</div><div> slave.pcm "hdmi" </div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>I'm running JYA's stable 0.21-fixes with Ubuntu 9.04 at the moment.</div></div></div><br><div>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Scott <<a href="mailto:catfather@donpoo.net">catfather@donpoo.net</a>></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">AIM: BlueCame1</p>
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