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I'm setting up a home media server in my living room, and it's not playing sound through the TV. I think it's due to the wrong device being selected as the default, since I can force it through with console commands or by selecting the appropriate audio device in VLC (which is fine for VLC, but not for Netflix or Youtube).
I'm using this motherboard, with an HDMI cable running from it to the TV -- no graphics card. I'm using Xfce as my desktop environment, and ALSA for audio management.
Here is my list of devices:
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
This causes the "Front Center" sound to play through the TV appropriately:
aplay -D plughw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
Here is my ~/.asoundrc file:
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 3
}
This is what my audio settings look like.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Last edited by zarokima (2015-09-02 19:15:10)
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I had very similar problems albeit with a different motherboard but installing pulseaudio and experimenting a bit with the wiki here resolved it. Still have no sound using browser unless I open pulseaudio control and select HDMI each time though but use it so little I've accepted it.
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Thanks, that helped. I set it as the fallback through pavucontrol and that fixed everything for me.
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Glad that helped a bit. Sorry about being so vague but wasn't at computer.
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