Sound bugs in Cubox with Geexbox

[hewieMember]

Hi, thanks for awesome program, I’m running Geexbox on my cubox pro and I have a problem that I’m not sure has to do with Geexbox, the Cubox or my amplifier, thought someone might be able to help here.

Sometimes, not often the sound doesn’t start working right away when I start a video, it can take about 30-60 seconds till it starts working, or i just reload the video a couple of times till it starts working.

Second problem with the sound is that sometimes it starts to buzz really loud from the speakers, it can keep for about 5-20 seconds and then it stops.. It comes back now and then, sometimes it can work for hours and sometimes it can come back with 2 minutes between.
It can stop for the moment if I restart the amplifier.

Anyone who can try to help me here?

Thanks in advance!

[hewieMember]

I can also add that it worked the first month or something without this problem, it just came from nowhere.
And that I have my Windows-computer plugged to the amplifier too where i play music from.
I never had the problem with this there.

[Warped RudiModerator]

Just to clarify: Is it really a “CuBox Pro” (i.e. Marvell Armada510) or is it a “CuBox-i4pro” (Freescale iMX.6) ? Also, is this buzz happening while playing something (if so, which audio format) or does the happen when XBMC is idle?

While I have seen delayed audio startup – on the Marvell hardware, but not on the iMX – the buzz is something completely new to me…

[hewieMember]

It is CuBox-i4Pro and this is only happening while playing video (only audio I don’t know since I only play videos on this one).
And to video format it’s usually .mkv.
Usually sound starts right away but when it doesn’t I just either restart video or wait.

[hewieMember]

And for a bit of a error-search I don’t think I had this problem before i followed this guide: http://www.geexbox.org/forum/topic/subtitle-problem/

I’m not entirely sure it’s just that I don’t think I had this problem before my girlfriend moved in with me and I had to fix Hebrew subtitle and this was the way to do it (if this now was the steps I followed).

[Warped RudiModerator]

Since .mkv is just a container format, it would be helpful to know what video and audio codecs are actually used in the misbehaving files. Also what does your XBMC audio configuration look like (HDMI vs. SPDIF, passthrough en-/disabled, number of speakers). As I said: I have not heard about this before. So I have no idea what this could be…

[hewieMember]

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These are the configuration in my settings.
I’ve got HDMI for sound and I think it’s usually DTS that has been the problem, not completely sure if it’s only been that or others too.
Got 5.0 from the amplifier which is an Yamaha HTR2866.
I’ve tried to run a few movies from my big computer and I haven’t had this problem there.

[Warped RudiModerator]

From the specs of the HTR2866:

• HD Audio format decoding: Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio;
Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio

So why don’t you enable ‘passthrough’ and all the ‘XXX capable receiver’ options? This receiver should support this perfectly well.

[hewieMember]

Didn’t know it was needed, I will give it a try!
Thanks for now!

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