Another XBMCFreak livecd; Since we’re heading more and more to a stable release the number of changes will be limited. I also selected the stable nvidia drivers, because a lot of users were reporting issues with sound over hdmi. The xbmc-remote-php project has also been added. Just use the browser to browse to the ip-address of the xbmc machine. Click on the xbmc-remote-php link and check the messages on the screen. Please report your findings!
- XBMC 10.00 beta4 packages
- Live now contains an Audio Mixer. You’ll find it in the Programs section.
- Nvidia 195.36.24 stable
- added support for support ALC880
- enable resume USB remotes – thx to trbs
- latest version makemkv v1.6.2 (blu-ray support)
- improved xbmc-remote-php version
Download: http://xbmcfreak.binkey.nl/xbmcfreak-1000-vanilla-beta4.zip
@bernstein
Try linux kernel 2.6.36+ or else youre sound card is stereo only!
thx but as stated i get “surround sound” with speaker-test, even in xbmc menu, just not while playing movies… btw:
$ cat /proc/asound/card1/codec#0 | grep “Audio Output”
Node 0×02 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x1d: Stereo Amp-Out
Node 0×03 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x1d: Stereo Amp-Out
Node 0×04 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x1d: Stereo Amp-Out
Node 0×06 [Audio Output] wcaps 0×211: Stereo Digital
so the hardware is recognized as suporting 6 analog channels!
however i’ve now found a woking configuration where i get true 5.1 surround while playing movies, but i no longer get menu navigation sounds. hate them anyway so no prob, but it seems xbmc uses a different sound configuration for this?!
in my years with with linux this “get the latest build” rarely worked, as long as one knows there hasn’t been a specific bugfix and/or others got it to work on similar hardware/software… especially when one is not an expert in configuring the offending linux subsystem, the culprit is most likely to be some misconfiguration due to some peculiar detail. one is far more to find someone who figured it all out on an older more common software build. for example, the correct answer to my problem would have been :
change “options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-6ch-dig enable=1 index=0″
to “options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-6ch-dig enable=1 index=-2″
in /etc/modprobe.d/my.conf
nasty detail isn’t it? and no, i have no idea why it works now… in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf i just saw the section “Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0″ under which everything is “… index=-2″ and figured i’d give it a shot… oh and my card is now regonized as card1 (card0 before)
and it gets even more strange (well at least to a non alsa expert): speaker-test no longer works for the “-D plug:surround51 -c 6″ but now works for “-D hw:1 -c 6″
btw: when playing a stereo mp3 in xbmc i now get sound through all 6 channels… does someone know how the upmix is done? can it be configured so that 5.1 uses 6channels and stereo only 2 channels?
well i realize this is a blog so disregard my questions, i’ll go ask them in the xbmc forums, where they belong. thx