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Rachus

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Registered: 2012-12-12

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MPD - "dirty" sound and HDMI not working

Hello,

recently I found mpd and liked the idea of a music deamon instead of always calling mplayer. Thus I installed it and thought, that I can enjoy the music. But some (well, actually most) of the files just don't sound "right". But hear yourself: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/237 … m/prob.ogg

It only seems to affect AAC files (which are within a mp4 container). I also have a few FLAC files but haven't been able to hear such issues when playing them, yet.

I tried to change the output device, the samplerate_converter and the mixer_format but there was no difference. I didn't want to change the ALSA configuration since mplayer works correctly.

Anyone with a similiar problem who might be able to help?

Another thing, I stumbled upon when I was trying to fix the above issue, is, that it doesn't seem possible to use HDMI as audio output. I tried it with mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1.3, mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1.7, mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1.8 and mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1.9. Mplayer "played" something, but I couldn't hear any sound. (And there is nothing muted)

Output of aplay:

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x 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 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


$ aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, AD198x Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 2
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 3
    HDMI Audio Output

Output of mpd --verbose

$ mpd --verbose
config: loading file /home/rachus/.mpd/mpd.conf
listen: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in use (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded)
path: path_set_fs_charset: fs charset is: UTF-8
pcm: libsamplerate converter 'Fastest Sinc Interpolator'
database: reading DB
output: No "audio_output" defined in config file
output: Attempt to detect audio output device
output: Attempting to detect a alsa audio device
output: Successfully detected a alsa audio device
disabling the last.fm playlist plugin because account is not configured
disabling the soundcloud playlist plugin because API key is not set
daemon: opening pid file
daemon: daemonized!
daemon: writing pid file

I really hope, that anyone can help me.

EDIT: I noticed this thread, where Mplayer2 (which I use) also has no HDMI output. Is it a known bug?

EDIT2: Today, I tried mpd-git and it works without any flaws.
But I'm still not able to use HDMI for any sound (not even speaker-test makes any noise).

Last edited by Rachus (2013-05-29 11:29:13)