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How to get sound over HDMI working when using a TV?

wallarug

I have tried everything I could find on the internet but nothing has worked.  I have a HD TV and the Raspberry Pi is connect through a HDMI cable.  I have tried to change the config.txt file with hdmi_drive=2 (didn't work) and tried nothing in config.txt, I have tried sudo modprobe snd-bcm2835 as well but nothing I do seems to be working.  I installed vlc but it gives me an error: "VLC failed to initlalize your sound output device (if any).  Please update your alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix this issue".  The help on the Raspberry Pi Forums is not very helpful...Example: "yep, got it playing videos, video games, and just plain music".  Can you please help me so that I can move on to some basic operations.  PS:  I have NO Linux knowledge so please be very specific with instructions.

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  • Fergus, have you tried the rest of the Help wiki ? http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Sound

     

    cd /opt/vc/src/hello_pi/hello_audio

    make

    ./hello_audio.bin

     

    Not sure what you are trying to play, but Quake sound doesn't work and I couldn't get it to play MP3 files, I think because it probably doesn't have mp3 drivers as default, although just looking at the forum, the modprode command is supposed to cure that.

     

    What are you trying to play and can you hear anything through headphones ?

  • in reply to GreenYamo

    I am trying to get any sound possible through the HD TV but can't. not even ...

    cd /opt/vc/src/hello_pi/hello_audio

    make

    ./hello_audio.bin 1

    ... is working through the TV.  But I can get audio through the audio jack when I type "./hello_audio.bin 0" .

    I have read through the wiki but nothing seemed to help fix the problem.

    I am not sure if the modprobe command worked but I think it did (I typed it in and no errors occured).

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  • in reply to GreenYamo

    I am trying to get any sound possible through the HD TV but can't. not even ...

    cd /opt/vc/src/hello_pi/hello_audio

    make

    ./hello_audio.bin 1

    ... is working through the TV.  But I can get audio through the audio jack when I type "./hello_audio.bin 0" .

    I have read through the wiki but nothing seemed to help fix the problem.

    I am not sure if the modprobe command worked but I think it did (I typed it in and no errors occured).

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