HDMI Audio problem or codec problem?

[mwdowns]

Hello all.

Recently tried updating to the latest RC for Xbian on my Pi, but when I tried playing a video file encoded for 5.1 sound, there was no audio. Files with 2.0 play fine, but anything for 5.1 is silent.

I went to settings and made sure the audio output was set up correctly (HDMI, 5.1), but nothing. Things work fine on the Beta 2 version of Xbian, but both RC versions have the "no 5.1 audio" problem. Was there something changed in the RC versions that might cause this?

[mk01]

can you try: remove guisettings.xml from /home/xbian/.xbmc/userdata and start xbmc again ?

[mwdowns]

Well, it is working now. But I have to leave the audio output at 2.0. Sound comes out fine that way, even stuff that's encoded for 5.1. And my speakers all play the sound OK. But if I change the audio output to 5.1, I'm back to the no sound problem. I guess, as the tool-tip says, I'll just leave it at 2.0 and let the receiver decode the passthrough output (I have my Pi hooked up to my TV by HDMI, then an optical cable going from my TV to my 5.1 receiver).

Thanks for the help!

[rikardo1979]

so now after you described your setup it is obvious that your TV is not able to pass through 5.1 sound over SPDIF. so even the sound is coming out as 5.1 over HDMI form RPi than the TV is not able to pass it out. unfortunate but not much you can do

[IriDium]

Why not just go HDMI from the RPi to the AVR and then HDMI from the AVR to the TV?

It's what I use with no problems.

I once experienced a similar problem, but that was on a beta version for the cubox-i.

[rikardo1979]

@IriDium
I belive there are people out there with receivers without HDMI connections so I believe this is one of the cases, otherwise it would not make any sense