
However, you can use a home theater receiver, or one of the new Home Theater Licensing and copyright protections, this is not possible. Standalone DVD players or other computers. Surround sound from external players such as the Microsoft Xbox 360, Many customers have asked us how to use the S/PDIF Digital Input to decode Must decode your DD/DTS soundtrack, NOT the soundcard.

The reasoning is that the only legal use of DD/DTS decoders is for playback If it works, your receiver should indicate it's getting DTS data."DOES YOUR SOUNDCARD DECODE DOLBY DIGITAL/DTS SURROUND?įor licensing and copyright protection purposes, soundcard manufacturersĪre effectively prevented from adding DD/DTS decoders to their products. Once you get it working, you can grab a DTS WAV file from this link to test that digital pass-through is working on your card - be sure to substitute in the right hw: numbers that you got to work earlier: "aplay -D hw:0,2 Norrlanda.wav". If it still doesn't work, return to Step 2 and play with mixer settings. If there are other entries, repeat Step 3 with each parameter. Note the numbers in brackets ("" should be one of them that's the one we tried in Step 3 with the "hw:0,2" parameter). If that doesn't work, look for entries listed as "digital audio playback" in the output of "cat /proc/asound/devices". If it works your receiver should indicate it's getting PCM data. Try playing back a WAV file: "aplay -D hw:0,2 myfile.wav" or possibly "aplay -D plughw:0,2 myfile.wav". Not sure what I need to do with the Ubuntu Config.Īlso, my card is: Turtle Beach TBS-3300-01 Montego DDL Sound Cardīasic troubleshooting steps (taken from the DigitalOut with ALSA page I posted to your earlier question):Ĭheck that the card is found and available (already done! good job!)Ĭheck mixer settings (try TonyUser's suggestion of gnome-volume-control-pulse first, then try running alsamixer and seeing if you need to adjust things there as well). If I uninstall pulse, it works okay for XMBC, but nothing else has sound. I don't really know very much about sound trouble shooting, so any help is appreciated. I disable the onboard intel audio from the bios.Īplay -l says: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****Ĭard 0: CMI8768, device 0: CMI8738-MC8 Ĭard 0: CMI8768, device 1: CMI8738-MC8 Ĭard 0: CMI8768, device 2: CMI8738-MC8 Ĭurrently I have the following switches checked:

When sound does come out those two channels, my reciever says PCM, but when the test says other channels, it says NO AUDIO INPUT. I can get static out the front two channels with the following command but that is it so far (when the test says center, nothing works): I installed a new sound card, a Turtle Beach card, and can't seem to get sound out of the optical out.
