Sound Issue With Onkyo TX-NR626

With newly flashed SD-card sound works fine on TV. Connected to my AV-Receiver (Onkyo TX-NR626) after booting: On surface there is a click every now and then, but HDMI and sound indicators flashing (handshake problem?). Playing video no sound at all. This affects all Allwinner chips, H3, H5, H6 and R40. I tried several options (Sound always on, fixed samplerate to 44.1 kHz...) but no change at all.

Kodi log (ALSA):

CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "hdmi:CARD=allwinnerhdmi,DEV=0,AES0=0x04,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x00,AES3=0x00"

CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Unable to open the required number of channels

CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats

CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE4

(the same with other devices)

Any suggestions?

Quote from everlanes

I also have an Onkyo TX-NR626 connected to an Tanix TX6 with Allwinner H6. For me it works out of the box:

Code

2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691   WARNING <general>: Pulseaudio module module-allow-passthrough not loaded - opening PT devices might fail
2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691      INFO <general>: Found 2 Lists of Devices
2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691      INFO <general>: Enumerated ALSA devices:
2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691      INFO <general>:     Device 1
2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_deviceName      : default
2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_displayName     : Default (allwinner-hdmi 5091000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0)
2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_displayNameExtra: 
2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_channels        : FL, FR, LFE, UNKNOWN1, FC, BC, BL, BR, BLOC, BROC, FLOC, FROC
2022-01-02 15:42:11.156 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_sampleRates     : 32000,44100,48000,88200,96000,176400,192000
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S16LE
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_streamTypes     : No passthrough capabilities
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:     Device 2
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_deviceName      : sysdefault:CARD=allwinnerhdmi
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_displayName     : allwinner-hdmi
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_displayNameExtra: 5091000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_channels        : FL, FR, LFE, UNKNOWN1, FC, BC, BL, BR, BLOC, BROC, FLOC, FROC
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_sampleRates     : 32000,44100,48000,88200,96000,176400,192000
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S16LE
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_streamTypes     : No passthrough capabilities
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:     Device 3
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_deviceName      : hdmi:CARD=allwinnerhdmi,DEV=0
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_displayName     : allwinner-hdmi
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_displayNameExtra: ONK TX-NR626 on HDMI
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_HDMI
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_channels        : FL, FR, LFE, FC, BL, BR, BLOC, BROC
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_sampleRates     : 32000,44100,48000,88200,96000,176400,192000
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_RAW,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S16LE,AE_FMT_RAW
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_streamTypes     : STREAM_TYPE_AC3,STREAM_TYPE_DTSHD,STREAM_TYPE_DTSHD_MA,STREAM_TYPE_DTSHD_CORE,STREAM_TYPE_DTS_1024,STREAM_TYPE_DTS_2048,STREAM_TYPE_DTS_512,STREAM_TYPE_EAC3,STREAM_TYPE_TRUEHD
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>: Enumerated PULSE devices:
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:     Device 1
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_deviceName      : Default
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_displayName     : Default
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_displayNameExtra: Bluetooth Audio (PULSEAUDIO)
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_deviceType      : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_channels        : FL, FR
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_sampleRates     : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000,384000
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_dataFormats     : AE_FMT_U8,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S24NE3,AE_FMT_S24NE4,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_FLOAT
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:691      INFO <general>:         m_streamTypes     : No passthrough capabilities
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:692      INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2022-01-02 15:42:11.157 T:692      INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "hdmi:CARD=allwinnerhdmi,DEV=0"
2022-01-02 15:42:11.162 T:692      INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "hdmi:CARD=allwinnerhdmi,DEV=0,AES0=0x04,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x00,AES3=0x00"
2022-01-02 15:42:11.163 T:692      INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
2022-01-02 15:42:11.163 T:692      INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE4

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I use the VP9 test image and playing movies, music and Youtube all works well. But I remember that I once had problems with Onkyo and HDMI and resolved it with a new HDMI cable.

Thank you. Changing the HDMI cable: same as before. But I have a Q6+ TV-Box. Built the latest custom image and... it works! So I build more images with following results:

R40 (BananaPi): no sound

H3 (Libretech ALL-H3): no sound

H5 (Libretech ALL-H5): no sound and no picture (Reminder: Only over Onkyo Receiver)´

H6 (OrangePi 3): working, even passthrough working.

This leaves me puzzled. Maybe only *.dtb issue? Next step maybe trying Armbian...