I have this distribution OpenElec 4.1.6 pre-configured for HiFiBerry Digi/Digi+/DAC+. My hifiberry works fine. But i want the movie output by hdmi and not by hifiberry. how do i change this?
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HiFiBerry team Hi,
you need to select HDMI as the audio output in the settings menu instead of ALSA.
Best regards
Daniel -
katzcomeister Daniel thanks for your quick response.
But when i select hdmi then not only movie but also my music will be played by hdmi. -
HiFiBerry team I think, both use the same dvdplayer backend. In this case you it is not possible to choose different outputs for music ond movies. Maybe a XBMC insider has an idea if this is possible.
Best regards
Daniel -
katzcomeister Hi Daniel, but on this page i read that it works.
http://www.hifiberry.com/guides/hifiberry-raspbmc/
Yes i know it's a different distribution.
I tried to get it to work from the explanation of the page but i get no sound output via hifiberry. Hdmi output works fine.
So my thought was that the OpenElec 4.1.6 pre-configured for HiFiBerry Digi/Digi+/DAC+ could do the same.
Music output hifiberry movie output -> hdmi.
Any ideas? -
thent You could force Openelec to use omxplayer for video playback, since it doesn't support ALSA devices.<advancedsettings>
<video>
<defaultdvdplayer>omxplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
<defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
</video>
</advancedsettings>
Then probably HDMI would be used as output device. Audio should stay with paplayer I think. -
katzcomeister ok thank you.
i will try that.
i will let you know how it went
Beste regards Maurice -
katzcomeister it works, i'm all happy now.
best regards Maurice -
gaspro Hi all,
similar problem here:
OpenElec 5.0.8
Raspberry PI 2
Hifiberry DAC+
DAC+/ALSA works ok, HDMI works ok.
I need music to go to DAC+/ALSA (and to my amp), movies to go to HDMI (i found convenient to have movies sound from my HDMI TV instead of my amp).
I searched and did not find advancedsettings.xml
I found instead ~/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml but there is no <defaultplayer> tag.
Can someone help me plz? -
Stuart MacLean Hi
I've been looking to see if it is possible to configure OpenELEC such that movies goto HDMI and music to go via DAC+. Unfortunately I can't find any solution that allows OpenELEC to be configured using different sound outputs for video and music.
The closest solution that I can find is the Dual Audio Output patch for OpenELEC
https://github.com/xhbl/OpenELEC_dualaudio
Unfortunately means building your own version of OpenELEC.
Cheers, Stuart -
gaspro Thank you for your reply,
navigating i found this guy already prepares some images:
http://openelec-dualaudio.subcarrier.de/OpenELEC-DualAudio/RPi2.arm/
Maybe its useful for someone else.
I'll eventually try in the next days...
Thank you again,
Carlo. -
gaspro Auto reply:
I tried the image, it works flawless.. very nice !
Enjoying my dual audio output and consequently complete control from the KORE app without even turning on the TV !
Thanks,
Carlo -
HiFiBerry team Thanks for the feedback!
Best regards
Daniel -
Jaka Hi, I have little different problem
I'm using Raspberry PI B+ + DAC+ and openelec
I tried this https://www.hifiberry.com/2015/01/openelec-for-hifiberry/
I got in music output settings:
- PI: HDMI
- PI: Analogue
- PI: HDMI and Analogue
- ALSA: Default (snd_hifiberry_dac_plus_Analog)
is it possible to have another settings - something like:
- ALSA: snd_hifiberry_dac_plus_Analog and HDMI
I'm using hifiberry almost only for music, and HDMI for TV (kids watching Cartoons from my NAS) - so I'd like both soundcards to me active, if this is possible -
HiFiBerry team Hi Jaka,
as far as I understand the dual-audio image linked above should do this. Standard OpenElec can't output the sound to two different outputs.
Best regards
Daniel
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