Enabling 5.1 S/PDIF on XBMC

Screenshot of The Dark Knight in 1080P, telling me that digital sound doesn't work...

Just got myself a new receiver and that made me finally want to enable 5.1 sound on my mediacenter. I tried a LOT of tutorials, to finally find out the solution was quite simple…

I tried upgrading Alsa, according to this post on XBMC but did not manage to enable it. It was a post on Ubuntuforums that gave me hope. If mplayer could give me surround through S/Pdif, then XBMC should be able to do it, right?

I’ve never read it, but the the solution was in disabling the navigation sounds for the menu! When I re-enable the sounds, surround doesn’t work, when I disable the sounds, surround sound through the room. I’ve added screenshots of the settings as well.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at 00:03 and is filed under HTPC, Mediacenter, Sony. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Enabling 5.1 S/PDIF on XBMC”

Henr0 July 12th, 2010 at 04:05

THANKS!!! This was killing me. I had to play everything in DVDPlayer to get 5.1 but now I am set!!

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