Alright so I just upgraded my 11.3 x64 to 11.4 using zypper dup and have now lost the ability to play digital output 5.1.
Before doing the upgrade I was running alsa rather than phonon but apparently the upgrade decided to enable phonon, and I no longer show digital surround output.
The soundcard I have is a CM8738 and I am using the coaxial output on it hooked into my receiver. In system settings->multimedia->phonon->speaker setup the soundcard shows and I have the ability to select different profiles, however the digital output settings only show stereo and the sound output device the only one listed is CM8738 Digital Stereo (IEC958). I have selections for analog 5.1 and analog 7.1 but neither put anything out of the digital connection.
As I said I was running alsa before and was able to do straight digital pass through which allowed my receiver to do the decoding and use all of my channels. How can I setup phonon to use digital passthrough, or switch back to alsa and get that setup again.
For your information : the 11.4 activate the Pulse Audio server by default. So, I guess it is the culprit. Maybe reverting back to ALSA should do the trick for you.
Yes I have went through that guide, and thats how I got suse 11.3 setup. Im using the same xine config that I had in 11.3, which used pass through, but in 11.4 it wont. I can play a dts encoded file using aplay and my receiver correctly identifies the output and decodes it properly, however I cant get xine to playback through the digital passthrough and I believe its because I dont have the ability to select a passthrough device in the KDE multimedia setup.
Does it mean the device does not show up as an option in kde multimedia?
It looks like the one showing up is the pulseaudio server, if it is, go to yast2-hardware-sound and try disabling pulseaudio, then go back to kde-multimedia and see the changes.
Does it mean the device does not show up as an option in kde multimedia?
It looks like the one showing up is the pulseaudio server, if it is, go to yast2-hardware-sound and try disabling pulseaudio, then go back to kde-multimedia and see the changes.
Correct in KDE multimedia the only device listed for Audio Ouput is the pulseaudio server (yes I have show advanced devices enabled). Under audio capture I can see the actual devices and not just the pulseadio server.
The same thing is displayed under the phonon setup whether or not the enable pulseaudio check box is checked or not in the yast->hardware->sound.
Sorry can’t help much, I will try to look around and throw some help if I found one.
For my setup it was different as soon as I disable pulseaudio in yast it shows all the device options.
in the kde multimedia section (phonon)
Try going back to yast and disable pulseaudio, Might need a restart of your machine.
Alright so a restart after disabling allowed the devices to show back up in phonon, and everything is working. Not sure why that checkbox required a restart but it fixed it.