Hi,
i have a freshly installed openSUSE 13.1, my system has an intecrated sound card (detected as X-FI Titanium series [EMUU20k2]), a NVIDIA gtx 680 graphic card with a hdmi audio device included (this is detected too).
Basically my sound via the integrated X-FI Titatnium device works (there a a few flaws like phonon plays no test sounds). With VLC i had some problems at first though:
- at first no sound played at all
- in the VLC audio settings the output module was set to: “automatic”
- i changed it to “pulseaudio” nothing changed
- i changed it to “ALSA” and selected my X-FI device -> audio played fine!
In the next step i wanted to test video and audio over my TV which is plugged into my NVIDIA card via HDMI:
- using the NVIDIA propitary display driver, video worked directly
- i keeped the VLC audio settings at ALSA but changed the device to my HDMI device: “HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output” it is strange that there are 4 of this listed! but every one played sound!
But when trying to change the volume setting with the VLC volume slider: loud crazy acoustic noise starts, actually the volume slider did not changed the volume at all (it works for the X-FI) and after the crazy noise started there was no way to stop it (apart from closing VLC) but i was not able to use that device after that, everytime i tried to play i VLC video again the noise was there right from the start, no volume slider change needed. But changing the audio device to X-FI helped!
Rebooting the system works to but again i cannot change the volume slider in VLC.
I tried to test the HDMI device with other programms like the browser but it does not work there, even when put on top of each list in phonon.