Natsch wrote: > Hello everyone, > > this could be helpful for those of you who are interested in playing > back multi-channel AC3 & DTS streams encapsulated in FLAC files via HDMI > Passthrough and have problems with it using piCorePlayer. > > Last week I have bought a Raspberry Pi 3 to use it as my main > Squeezeplayer at home and playing back my multi-channel music via HDMI > was one of my most important goals. According to some forum posts this > feature was broken with the recent versions of piCorePlayer and at the > beginning I couldn't set it up either. The good news is that after some > research and testing I finally found a working solution and the funny > thing is that it is very simple. In short, you only have to... > > 1) set the ALSA output level to exactly 0.00db > 2) and follow the general instructions to playback AC3 & DTS streams > encapsulated in FLAC files with squeezelite --> e.g. (unfortunately I > can't post URLs yet, so see the next post) > > The detailed instructions are: > > 1) Login to your piCorePlayer via SSH. > > 2) Set the ALSA output level to exactly 0.00db and save it for future > reboots with the following commands > > a) find out the simple mixer ID of your sound card > > Code: -------------------- > > amixer scontrols -------------------- > > > --> the output in my case is > > Code: -------------------- > > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 -------------------- > > > whereas 'PCM' is the important part for the next command > > b) set the output level to 0.00db > > Code: -------------------- > > amixer sset 'PCM' 0 -------------------- > > > c) save & backup the ALSA settings > > Code: -------------------- > > sudo alsactl store > sudo filetool.sh -b -------------------- > > > > 4) set ALSA output level to Custom in the piCorePlayer web interface > (under Tweaks --> Audio Tweaks) and save the change. > > 5) Set up LMS and your audio files accordingly --> for instance (see > the URL in the next post) > > The most important settings are (under Player --> Audio): > Crossfade: None > Volume Control: Output level is fixed at 100% > Volume Adjustment/Replay Gain: No Volume Adjustment (you can leave the > other options on if there is absolutely no Replay Gain information > stored in your multi-channel FLAC files) > > I can now successfully playback my multi-channel music and have > finally found my perfect music playback set-up for now. > > My set-up: > LMS 7.9 as a virtual machine on my Home Server > Raspberry Pi 3 with piCorePlayer 3.00 (using HDMI and Ethernet) > Denon AVR-X3100W > > Thank you for the fantastic piCorePlayer and keep up the good work!
I have done all these settings and downloaded some multichannel flac test files. But there only comes stereo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ feeder6's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65101 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105997 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
