INTRO
About a month ago I decided to install Ubuntu 14.04 on an old pc and connect it to my Receiver using hdmi as a media center.
Also I wanted to useXBMC, for the movies, but also wanted the full Ubuntu desktop.
Also like listening to music using
Deezer,there is a nice Android app, to remote control Deezer so you don't need to keep the TV switched on:
Deemotefor Deezer And install
chrome and its
extension.
But I ran into quit some problems
, mainly with the sound: no pass through audio, cracks,extreme distortion, ...
I tried lots of tutorials and guide some helped, some broke the installation completely.
SOLUTION: “disable pulseaudio”, not remove pulseaudio, use ALSA:
Howto disable pulseaudio (scroll down)
Secondary problem with sound, as I like to listen to music, my receiver ONKYO TX-SR608 only supports ANALOG input for ZONE 2, which in my case provides the dining-room of music.
SOLUTION: Output the sound twice, once to HDMI and once to onboard ANALOG jacks output in stereo:
Howto configure ALSA for dual sound output (scroll down)
Secondary, no proper hardware acceleration for video in XBMC, I had a ATI/AMD Radeon 5700 card and followed this guide:http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174854
Howto disable pulseaudio
If your tried removing pulseaudio completely, it probably broke your “System Settings”, it will be missing a lot of icons, this you can fix simply by this, in terminal:
Code:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo reboot
Once rebooted, the best trick is to disable in staid of removing pulseaudio, in terminal:
Delete or move user pulse settings
Code:
Backup
sudo mv ~/.pulse ~/.pulse-backup
Delete
sudo rm -rf ~/.pulse
Code:
sudo gedit/etc/pulse/client.conf
Add the following two lines to this document, this will disable pulseaudio
Code:
autospawn = no
daemon-binary =/bin/true
Save & Reboot.
source & more info:http://askubuntu.com/questions/8425/...ble-pulseaudio
Configure ALSA to use the your sound card, in terminal:
Look for the soundcard you want to use and look for card number and device number, in my case card = 1 and device = 3
The output in my case:
**** List ofPLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDAIntel], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0:subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDAIntel], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0:subdevice #0
card 1:HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI],
device 3:HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0:subdevice #0
Now open the ALSA config file, using the terminal:
Code:
sudo gedit/etc/asound.conf
Copy & Paste the following and don't forget to change the card and device id:
Code:
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
device 3
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 1
device 3
}
Save & exit this file.
Now we will need to install a ALSA sound mixer, open terminal:
sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer
gnome-alsamixer
source & more info:http://www.hecticgeek.com/2012/01/ho...-ubuntu-linux/(DO NOT DELETE ALSA!)
Now test your audio using and hold your fingers crossed:
Code:
speaker-test -t wav-c 6
If everything went well you should hear sound 
.
Howto configure ALSA for dual sound output
Be sure to successfully disable pulseaudio first using the guide above, then open the alsa config file, using the terminal again:
Code:
sudo gedit/etc/asound.conf
And paste the following and don't forget to update the device and card id according your system!
Look for "pcm.digital-hw " and "pcm.analog-hw", use to look them up.
My file: asound.txt
Code:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "8channel_expander"
hint {
show on
description "Multichannel output to both analog and hdmi - for use with XBMC"
}
}
ctl.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "8channel_expander"
hint {
show on
description "Multichannel output to both analog and hdmi - for use with XBMC"
}
}
pcm.xbmc {
type plug
slave.pcm "8channel_expander"
hint {
show on
description "Multichannel output to both analog and hdmi - for use with XBMC"
}
}
pcm.analog-hw {
type hw
card 0
device 0
}
pcm.digital-hw {
type hw
card 1
device 3
}
pcm.multi {
type multi
slaves.a.pcm "digital-hw"
slaves.a.channels 6
slaves.b.pcm "analog-hw"
slaves.b.channels 2
# digital (hdmi) bindings
bindings.0.slave a
bindings.0.channel 0 # bind alsa channel 0 to front left
bindings.1.slave a
bindings.1.channel 1 # bind alsa channel 1 to front right
bindings.2.slave a
bindings.2.channel 2 # bind alsa channel 2 to rear left
bindings.3.slave a
bindings.3.channel 3 # bind alsa channel 3 to rear right
bindings.4.slave a
bindings.4.channel 4 # bind alsa channel 4 to center
bindings.5.slave a
bindings.5.channel 5 # bind alsa channel 5 to LFE (subwoofer)
# analog bindings
bindings.6.slave b
bindings.6.channel 0 # bind alsa channel 6 to front left
bindings.7.slave b
bindings.7.channel 1 # bind alsa channel 7 to front right
}
pcm.8channel_expander {
type route
slave.pcm "multi"
slave.channels 8
# syntax for ttable is "ttable.inputchannel.outputchannel volume"
# digital mixing
ttable.0.0 1 # copy front left to front left digital @ 100%
ttable.1.1 1 # copy front right to front right digital @ 100%
ttable.2.2 1 # copy rear left to rear left digital @ 100%
ttable.3.3 1 # copy rear right to rear right digital @ 100%
ttable.4.4 1 # copy center to center digital @ 100%
ttable.5.5 1 # copy LFE (subwoofer) to LFE (subwoofer) digital @ 100%
# analog mixing
ttable.0.6 1 # copy front left to front left analog @ 100%
ttable.1.7 1 # copy front right to front right analog @ 100%
#ttable.2.6 1 # copy rear left to front left analog @ 100%
#ttable.3.7 1 # copy rear right to front right analog @ 100%
ttable.4.6 0.5 # copy center to front left analog @ 50%
ttable.4.7 0.5 # copy center to front right analog @ 50%
}
Now test soundagain, terminal:
Code:
speaker-test -t wav -c 6
Don't forget to configure XBMC again, more info in the link.
source & more info: http://ehelion.net/projects/alsa/alsa.html
I hope this makes a lot of people happy, it cost me over 3 weeks to completely figure this out by my self and was very happy, most of the credit has to goto the other people in the links above!
XBMC Reciever HD TV Problems and solutions
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