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bleomycin

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Registered: 2012-10-23

Posts: 20

HDMI audio crackling/popping when volume is loud

I've been having this problem since i switched from analog audio to HDMI. When the volume is increased to somewhat loud levels I get crackling/popping. Volume is being controlled by my pioneer sc-65 receiver. The crackling/popping happens in flash video as well as XBMC, those are all I use. I'm not even sure where to start looking for the cause? This has been happening for months and I keep my system up to date. No pulseaudio installed just alsa and KDE. Thanks!

Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 697

Re: HDMI audio crackling/popping when volume is loud

IIRC I had similar problems with HDMI. And I that forced me to install pulseaudio. But I don't know if that solved that problems. Anyway long story short, after trying to get HDMI to work I just went back to SPDIF.
If you want to see my entire "adventure" check this topic: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127855

(I really doubt this post will help you at all, but maybe brebs alsa-config will help you)

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