[mythtvnz] No sound other than in MythTV

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have the common problem of no HDMI sound for browsers,media players etc. but Mythbuntu has always been OK.
> I've made yet another attempt to find a fix for this.
> My system doesn't appear to have an .asoundrc or asound.conf file so I created /etc/asound.conf containing:
>
> pcm.!default {
>       type plug
>       slave.pcm {
>               type hw
>               card 1
>               device 3
>       }
>  }
>


Make it as simple as possible, eg

pcm.!default {
	type hw
	card 1
        device 3
 }

Play around with the second (ie device) number, start at 0 and work up.



>
> Based on the output of aplay-l:
>
> myth at myth:~$ aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> NVidia device 3 is what is selected in Myth frontend and that works.
>
>
> I have tried to get system sound to work via HDMI with ALSAmixer but so far have had no luck.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Paul
>
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