Revo 3700 HDMI AND! Analog Out - How?

[roden]

Ok found a problem, when i reboot the machine, it defaults to Analog out and i loose the tv sound again. Still same setting in the menu and the asound.conf is still the same. ?

But if i recopy the file over and reboot it works again.

Then reboot the machine, and gone again ??

Confused

[Leopold]

Are you running the latest OpenELEC version? I've had problems with unreliable HDMI audio with some recent versions.

[roden]

yeah 3.0.6

CRAP :angry:

[Leopold]

Just to check, after you reboot run this command via ssh to list the audio devices XBMC discovers

Code:

grep m_deviceName /storage/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log

The one we added in asound.conf is called "default" so it should be there.

[roden]

/storage/.config$ grep m_deviceName /storage/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
14:57:32 T:140195736143680 NOTICE: m_deviceName : @:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
14:57:32 T:140195736143680 NOTICE: m_deviceName : iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
14:57:32 T:140195736143680 NOTICE: m_deviceName : hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
14:57:32 T:140195736143680 NOTICE: m_deviceName : hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
14:57:32 T:140195736143680 NOTICE: m_deviceName : hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
14:57:32 T:140195736143680 NOTICE: m_deviceName : hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

[Leopold]

This implies that the asound.conf is not taking effect. If you are able to get it working again after copying it again and rebooting, run the command again and we'll compare.

[roden]

Ok had to copy the file over several times, final got dual sound back.

/storage/.config$ grep m_deviceName /storage/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
17:00:24 T:139796820899648 NOTICE: m_deviceName : default
17:00:24 T:139796820899648 NOTICE: m_deviceName : @:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
17:00:24 T:139796820899648 NOTICE: m_deviceName : iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
17:00:24 T:139796820899648 NOTICE: m_deviceName : hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
17:00:24 T:139796820899648 NOTICE: m_deviceName : hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
17:00:24 T:139796820899648 NOTICE: m_deviceName : hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
17:00:24 T:139796820899648 NOTICE: m_deviceName : hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3

However not rebooted yet

[Leopold]

Yeah so there it has the device called default which is the one defined in asound.conf that makes the dual audio work. So after you reboot again it appears that the asound.conf no longer takes effect? I think this is something that needs more investigation and possibly a github issue raised for it so a dev can investigate.

If you can do a

Code:

pastebinit /storage/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log

after a reboot when it works and then doesn't work, then you can include the links to these logs in the issue report. I suggest turning on debugging before you do that so there's more information there.

Settings → System → Debugging and turn on Enable debug logging

[roden]

Ok I have now rebooted several times and it now appears to be holding. I think the issue is if you go to the menu and change or adjust the device, it does not work after a reboot even if you select the same setting. Replace the asound.conf and boot but dont touch and it seems fine.

I think we are there.

About setting the sound output. Is it possible to select 2.0 for tv and 2.1 for my speaker system. Its no big deal just wondered if possible. I think it uses the same for both at present.



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[Leopold]

I don't think there's a way to do that other than setting up two different user profiles which you could switch between, perhaps mapping a remote key to toggle between them somehow.

I think I would set it to 2.0 so that the LFE gets downmixed into the stereo for both outputs, but test it against the 2.1 setting and see which sounds better?