Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#9989 closed Patch - Bug Fix (fixed)

no sound with 5ch AC3 audio with 6 CH audio out

Reported by: Mark Spieth Owned by: JYA
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.25
Component: MythTV - Audio Output Version: Master Head
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

If a 5 channel AC3 audio program is played with a 5.1 alsa audio output, no sound is heard. This is because alsa does not support 5 ch output. The solution is to upmix 5ch audio to 6 ch if required.

channel affected is OneHD with some sports like Nascar having this format.

patch attached.

Attachments (1)

28-audio5chan (7.5 KB) - added by Mark Spieth 13 years ago.

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Change History (5)

Changed 13 years ago by Mark Spieth

Attachment: 28-audio5chan added

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by JYA

Is this with digital audio out (PCM) or analog out ?

On my hdmi output, where 5 channels isn't supported, then it gets converted to AC3 and play 5.0 just fine

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by JYA

could you provide a sample?

I remember recording one of those, but I guess it will be faster with a provided sample.

I see issues with the existing patch, in particular it will break mono-audio playback...

I will redo it and hopefulyl will be done today

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by JYA

Ok, I've found one (the fear factor on One HD)

After a quick glance at your patch I can see the following problems:

  • Mono will be upmixed through freesurround upmixer (and not the mono -> stereo one)
  • If upmixing isn't enabled, then the 5.0 to 5.1 conversion will not occur. And you can't toggle the upmixer as it only works if source is stereo.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by Github

Milestone: unknown0.25
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Allow 5.0 audio playback on hardware not supporting it.

ALSA doesn't support 5.0 audio and myth could only upmix mono and stereo. Extend upmixer to work with 5.0 audio. Based on a patch by Mark Spieth Fixes #9989

Branch: master Changeset: 909b444ede4dd08fe1e468b969aa9928bbc6a131

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