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Hifi-Digi with Kodi glitch/noise

Ewoud Bakker

April 08, 2016 17:40

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Hey folks,

Have boughed a hifiberry digi+ and installed it on my rpi2 kodi system after getting the driver setup it worked fine. After an re install i got in to problems.

Now i have switched over to an RPI3 (clean install) waited for xbian to update there kernell (4.4) and i setup the drivers. 

Things seem to be configured right. it shows up in aplay and in kodi.

once i play a movie the sound starts in 5.1 but after a while it glitches into a stuttering white noise, i usually have to stop the movie and start again but it will get stuck again after a few minutes. 

in the menu screen all is working with the GUI sounds. 

Any ideas on how to solve this? 

 

Cheers,

Ewoud

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  Ewoud Bakker April 08, 2016 17:49

  There also seems to be an "_" in the upper left coner in Hifiberry mode wich isn't there in HDMI mode.

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  Ewoud Bakker April 08, 2016 18:43

  To give you a better idea what happening i made a movie -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uc-VZV1B18

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  HiFiBerry team April 09, 2016 08:30

  Hi Edwoud,

  we are not Xbian experts. I recommend to contact the Xbian developers directly. They might have an idea how to debug and/or fix this.
  You can also try other Kodi based distributions like OpenElec or OSMC. Maybe they don't show this problem.

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Ewoud Bakker April 09, 2016 09:45

  Hey Daniel,

  I alrdy had extensive contact with the xbian folks. 
  As the driver etc seems to be working i turned to you as it might be a hardware issue or something different. Other Xbian users have no problems. 
  Cant switch to osmc or OE as i'm running stuff in the background. 
  
  Any ideas would be helpfull.
  
  Cheers,

  Ewoud

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  Hristo May 19, 2016 09:04

  Hi everybody,

  I have recently purchased a DiGi+, and got the exact same weird problem with Kodi and 5.1 sound in OpenElec. I don't know if this thread is still alive? Did somebody find a solution, or not yet?

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  HiFiBerry team May 19, 2016 09:33

  Hi,

  I'm not sure if the OpenElec guys finally upgraded to kernel to a newer version. The initial release for the RPI3 still had a bug. You might need to disable bluetooth:
  https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/207256905-Fix-for-Digi-on-RPi3-disable-bluetooth

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Hristo May 19, 2016 14:58

  Hi Daniel,

  Thanks for the fast response! However, I forgot to mention that my rpi is model 2 (my bad...), which has no bluetooth. Is there any other potentially conflicting  peripheral (such as lirc, which I do not need since i use a Rii Mini i25  Wireless RF remote) that I should disable via dtoverlay directives in my config.txt? Or maybe it is necessary to activate i2s? Since the card is detected and seems to works well (at least with other than 5.1 soundtracks), I interpreted that i2s was ok, but maybe I missed some parameter that should be adjusted in that config.txt?

  Cheers.

  Hristo

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  Hristo May 20, 2016 09:05

  Hi,

  that's a bit of a mistery, but tonight, everything was working flawlessly, without a glitch! The only difference with respect to yesterday is that I stopped the rPi during my working day, so tonight I began to use Kodi from a fresh restart. So maybe there was some setting I made within Kodi that needed a restart (not documented, neither from Kodi nor from Openelec...) ??

  So, right now, the problem seems to be solved, and I am happy with my rPi2 and its DiGi+!

  Thanks for the help.

  Hristo