[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2020-05-06 Thread Marcus Tomlinson
This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you. ** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2020-03-05 Thread Marcus Tomlinson
This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know. ** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Schürmann
Please not that this is a patched version of alsasink. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721740 I think the first errors are due to format probing and uncritical. This one seems to be more critical, while it is playing fine! 0:00:00.082999426 4382 0x1f58190 DEBUG alsa gstalsasink.c:

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-10 Thread Daniel Schürmann
Yes: $ pasuspender -- aplay -D a52:CARD=PCH PCM.wav Wiedergabe: WAVE 'PCM.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate: 44100 Hz, stereo aplay: set_params:1239: Kanalanzahl nicht unterstützt My Translation: $ pasuspender -- aplay -D a52:CARD=PCH PCM.wav Play: WAVE 'PCM.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-09 Thread Raymond
since iec958 cannot be open when you are playing stereo to both analog and digital aplay -D hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 PCM.wav / 'IEC958 Default PCM' = 1 / Plays digital + Analog do a52 return any error during open ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-09 Thread Daniel Schürmann
Here are the results: aplay -D hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 PCM.wav / 'IEC958 Default PCM' = 1 / Plays digital + Analog aplay -D hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 PCM.wav / 'IEC958 Default PCM' = 0 / Plays analog only aplay -D hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=1 PCM.wav / 'IEC958 Default PCM' = 1 / Plays digital only aplay

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Schürmann
Ok , I will test it tonight. Yesterday was facing an issue with totem and PCM playback: With: 'IEC958 Default PCM' = 0. * play a track in totem via pulseaudio * switch to an other track (while the first is still playing) * I can hear a spit of a second of the new track, but then transport stop

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-08 Thread Raymond
conflict only occur when hda controller has analog codec with spdif and HDMI codec you have two hda controllers try playing stereo to front device 0 and turn on/off 'IEC958 Default PCM' did you hear audio from both analog speaker and your digital receiver ? hda support multistreaming, you can

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Schürmann
I have tested switching 'IEC958 Default PCM' in alsamixer. But it has no noteable effect for me. * mplayer playes ac3 in both positions * aplay does not play in both positions * PCM soud is working from any player in both positions About the possible index=16 conflict: It seams all 'IEC958

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-08 Thread Raymond
the first thing to do is to turn off IEC958 Default PCM since this switch enable/disable the sharing of the default PCM stream with analog and SPDIF outputs. if you want exclusive acccess for AC3 passthrough https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/sound/pci/hda?id=9a0

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Schürmann
This is the counter part of the patch above: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=commit;h=c960e135db464269277831ba493efd7dd76ddcf9 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264609 T

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Schürmann
>From the commit message: > For avoiding this conflict, the recent kernel code (3.9 and 3.8 stable) moves the IEC958 controls of an SPDIF with index=16 once when the conflict happens. In Saucy we have kernel 3.11. It looks like that the either the conflict or the move to 16 does not happen. Do

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-08 Thread Raymond
your spdif control are still using index=0 Node 0x10 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x611: Stereo Digital Control: name="IEC958 Playback Con Mask", index=0, device=0 Control: name="IEC958 Playback Pro Mask", index=0, device=0 Control: name="IEC958 Playback Default", index=0, device=0 Control: name="

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Schürmann
How can I check that? Do you think it is an issue of settings in alsamixer? The patched version from #10 of /usr/share/alsa/cards/HDA-Intel.conf is installed in Ubuntu Saucy. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://b

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-07 Thread Raymond
http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa- lib.git;a=commitdiff;h=f5f45589f81c46d4ca4cbbe089441a0f7ac5e197;hp=8c6da54073b2c966d9a4e137ba4d521eac92816f do your iec958 controls of your spdif using index=16 ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-07 Thread Daniel Schürmann
I have filed a GStreamer bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721740 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #721740 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721740 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-04 Thread Daniel Schürmann
In gst 0.10 uses always the iec958 device on the first card. This seams the issue above. This schould be fixed it gst 1.0 But with gst 1.0 I get this error: pasuspender -- gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/home/daniel/workspace/Testsounds/www_lynnemusic_com_surround_test.ac3 ! ac3parse ! al

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-04 Thread Daniel Schürmann
Now I try the same with gstreamer: This works. Playing the stereo converted PCM stream: pasuspender -- gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location=/home/daniel/workspace/Testsounds/www_lynnemusic_com_surround_test.ac3 ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! alsasink device='iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0' Now pathtrough:

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2014-01-02 Thread Daniel Schürmann
Just for the record: My workaround for watching DVDs is the following command in a shell script: pasuspender -- mplayer -mouse-movements -nocache dvdnav:// -ao alsa:device=iec958=1.0 -ac hwac3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2013-12-30 Thread Daniel Schürmann
Hi Raymond, thank you very much for your help! > why do you specify ,DEV=0 ? because it is the output form play -L iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output I can play stereo wave files with a play and this device as desired. > do yo

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2013-12-29 Thread Raymond
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/advaudio-surround.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264609 Title: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy To manage notifications ab

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2013-12-29 Thread Raymond
why do you specify ,DEV=0 ? APLAY List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: PCH

[Bug 1264609] Re: No AC3 paththrough with hda intel ALC887-VD Saucy

2013-12-29 Thread Daniel Schürmann
After applying a patch for Bug #1264886 and setup the a52 plug-In, I am able to play Norrlanda.wav via Totem with 5.1 channels to my amp. I think this proves the following: 1. My hardware setup is OK 2. The low level alsa driver is able to output AC3 But Paththrough via the hw and the iec958 i