I have been using my KM box for a few weeks now, and I've managed to shoot down every singe problem, thanks to this board and very responsive commuity!

Then to my last problem: DVD audio. I am using analog sound, and it's working ok on every other side, MythMusic, TV, videos and so on.

The problem is that if I try to watch a DVD using either internal player or Xine (havn't tested mplayer yet) I get video, but no audio. If I listen very carefully, I can hear a steady "whump-whump" -sound. The cable is connected between the DVD and my motherboard, because my sound card is of the integrated type.

The same issue occurs when I try to rip a DVD.

If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, I would - once again - be very grateful!

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Jari-Matti

MBE&FE: GeForce MX440, Athlon XP 2000+, MSI KT333 Ultra, onboard audio, 512 MB, 2 x Technotrend T1500 DVB-T, LiteOn DVD±RW 16x DW1650-488C, Seagate 250 GB
FE: 1500MHz Geforce MX200-V, int. audio, 256MB

Do you have the cable oriented right? Try playing an audio CD...

Yep, the cable is oriented right. Actually it is impossible to get it wrong, since the connectors are not symmetric.

I'll try that and post back in a while...

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Jari-Matti

MBE&FE: GeForce MX440, Athlon XP 2000+, MSI KT333 Ultra, onboard audio, 512 MB, 2 x Technotrend T1500 DVB-T, LiteOn DVD±RW 16x DW1650-488C, Seagate 250 GB
FE: 1500MHz Geforce MX200-V, int. audio, 256MB

When you are playing back off of a DVD, the audio connection from the DVD drive doesn't matter as it should be taking the audio data over the Data Bus as with the video.
I've noticed that occasionally Xine starts up with the audio at minimum, have you checked that your volume is OK?

Bruce S.

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I tested it with audio CD and it is playing fine, so the problem is not the cable.

I have used Xine and internal player, and both of them suffer from the same disease: the strange whumping sound, but no audio track. Volume seems to work, because I can adjust how loud the "Whump" is.

Perhaps this is a codec thing? What audio codec should I have installed to watch DVD audio? I have installed the pineapple, does it have any affect in this matter?

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Jari-Matti

MBE&FE: GeForce MX440, Athlon XP 2000+, MSI KT333 Ultra, onboard audio, 512 MB, 2 x Technotrend T1500 DVB-T, LiteOn DVD±RW 16x DW1650-488C, Seagate 250 GB
FE: 1500MHz Geforce MX200-V, int. audio, 256MB

Most likely the whump is crosstalk from the real channel. Check with alsamixer to see what channels are muted/unmuted. I seem to remember needing some odd ones... "IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA" and "IEC958 Playback Source" needs to be [PCM].

Yes it is a Codec thing. I was having he same issue after I updated to the newest version and used the analog outs to one of my TV's. Here are some instructions from a different post about downloading and installing the new codecs. They are not being installed my default in the newest version of KM for legal issues. Even though it has you download mplayer it will put them in for all mplayer and for Xine. I don't know about the internal player or not I am not a big fan of that right now so I have not tested it.


Remove the older version of mplayer and fonts
Code:
# dpkg -r mplayer-fonts
# dpkg -r mplayer


Download the following files from http://www.mplayerhq.hu
essential-20061022.tar.bz2
MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 (there are current as of 22-Dec-2006).

Also download the latest xvid codec from http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html
(xvidcore-1.1.2.tar.bz2 at the moment)
Code:
$ wget http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvi ... .2.tar.bz2 ;
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releas ... c1.tar.bz2 ;
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releas ... 22.tar.bz2 ;
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/release ... -1.tar.bz2


Now make a dir for the codecs and unpack them there
Code:
# mkdir /usr/lib/codecs
# tar -xjf essential-20061022.tar.bz2 ;
mv ./essential-20061022/* /usr/lib/codecs/ ;
rmdir essential-20061022


Now unpack and build xvid
Code:
$ tar -xjf xvidcore-1.1.2.tar.bz2 ;
cd xvidcore-1.1.2/build/generic/ ;
./configure ;
make
# make install
# cd ../../.. ;
rm -rf xvidcore-1.1.2


Now unpack and install mplayer
Code:
$ tar -xjf MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
$ cd Mplayer-1.0rc1/ ;
./configure --prefix=/usr ;
make
# make install


Depending on your CPU, the make step may take a while... when it finishes you should be good to go.

Finally, be sure you add a font for mplayer to use for the OSD and subtitles. I used arial 14:
Code:
$ tar -xjf font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2
# mkdir /home/mythtv/.mplayer/font ;
cd /home/mythtv/font-arial-iso-8859-1/
# cp font-arial-14-iso-8859-1/* ../.mplayer/font/
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf font-arial-iso-8859-1


You can check to see that the thing got updated correctly by doing a "mplayer -version" like so:
Code:
mythtv@mythtv:~$ mplayer -version


Mine returned this:
Code:
mythtv@mythtv:~$ mplayer -version
MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1900+ (Family: 6, Model: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

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Marty

Long live Myth and Knoppmyth!!!!!

Sinspot1, you did it!

Following your advice, I am now able to play DVD's with audio using MPlayer! Internal player doesn't still work, but that's not a big deal. Thanks!

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Jari-Matti

MBE&FE: GeForce MX440, Athlon XP 2000+, MSI KT333 Ultra, onboard audio, 512 MB, 2 x Technotrend T1500 DVB-T, LiteOn DVD±RW 16x DW1650-488C, Seagate 250 GB
FE: 1500MHz Geforce MX200-V, int. audio, 256MB