No Sound on Video Playback - Sound OK on MythTV - using SPDIF/TosLink

[lightkeeper]

Hello Forum:

Can anyone help with sound problem on newly installed system.  I am using
SPDIF TosLink from PC to Pioneer Receiver - sound works fine for watching TV with MythTV but get no sound when playing DVD or playback of recorded TV.

Suggestions appreciated.
Bill


Tweaks used to get sound working for MythTV are posted at:
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5624.0

System:
 Installed # LinuxMCE-DVD-i386-rc2.iso

Motherboard Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am2 ATX
Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0 GHz
Memory 8096MB Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory
Video Card -  GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16
Hard Drive  - HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (0A34915) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
DVD - SAMSUNG SH203N SATA
HD-5500 Hi Definition Television PCI Card – pchdtv

[sambuca]

Hi Bill,

As Xine (or Mplayer in some special cases) is used for playing DVDs, videos and recorded TV shows, I think you need to set Xine to use the correct output. There are some information on the alsa website http://alsa.opensrc.org/DigitalOut, but I don't know if it will work in LinuxMCE.

regards,
sambuca

[seth]

 

You may also try the information here in our wiki http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Nvidia_CK804 . This worked in my case, although my chipset was slightly different and I had stereo prologic sound but no DTS or AC3 stuff.

I eventually resolved the issue by putting in a turtle beach card with optical spidf built in. This worked immediately and I could use AC3, and DTS.

Regards,

Seth

[gazlang]

I have the M2N SLI-Deluxe mobo and also had sound probs like this using coaxial out. I fixed it by selecting "manual configuration" (instead of "SPDIF Optical" in your case) in the LMCE audio settings (either on the LMCE Launch manager "audio" tab or in LMCE admin -> media directors)

[seth]

I have the M2N SLI-Deluxe mobo and also had sound probs like this using coaxial out. I fixed it by selecting "manual configuration" (instead of "SPDIF Optical" in your case) in the LMCE audio settings (either on the LMCE Launch manager "audio" tab or in LMCE admin -> media directors)

So after you did this, were you able to get AC3 and DTS sound? I am curious because I have another use for the sound card I installed on another system, and would like to get back to using the onboard connector?

Regards,

Seth