Posts by Jacky2611

Had to switch to Spdif because my entire surround system was moved away from the tv to the other side of the room while my nas and htpc are now standing next to my switch in the cellar. Previously my htpc was right next to my Yamaha Surround system so I could just connect it using HDMI passthrough.

chewitt Never heared about this bevor, Can hardly believe that such a huge issue still exists. I am currently checking my exact TV model and will give your idea a shot. However, I did some reading on the nvidia forums and it appears like it should be the other way around, with video stutters instead of audio dropouts. Can you recommend me some articles to read up more on this issue? Sounds highly interesting and very important should I decide to build/buy a new htpc in the future.

EDIT: Wait, I think I understand where the problem is now. My video uses the graphics card onboard clock while my onboard spdif audio output uses the mobos/CPUs clock, and they are not always necessarily in perfect sync. After a while this results in the audio pausing for a second so that the video can catch up to it. So I can now either try to solve this issue using software, get a new graphics card with a spdif audio out (has anyone ever seen such a card?) or use a splitter after my current graphic cards hdmi out to split the signal into audio and video.
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OK, so after nearly disassembling my TV I figured out that its a Philips 46pfl9704h. Problem now is that there I can't seem to find any data on it. Is there a databse or something where I can look this up?

Hi there!

I recently upgraded my home enterntainment system and switched from my nvidias graphics card hdmi passthrough audio to the onboard SPDIF coax/rca out. After also switching from a four year old version of openelec to the last stable libre elec release I was good to go, or at least I thought so. After first having to reboot my device several times for the spdif option to show up in the audio settings (idk why, but so far this seems to have fixed this issue) I started to experience audio dropouts lasting one or two seconds once I started to playback movies. After searching a bit on the kodi forums I read that this appears to be a software problem and sometimes gets fixed by using a different version. After reflashing my device a few times I am now using the latest experimental version and somehow managed to reduce these dropouts to one every two to three minutes. (Again, no idea what exactly did the trick)
However, I still haven't been able to get rid of them entirely.

Would be great if someone could help me to get this working. Here are more informations:

libreelec version:
most likely any, but currently 7.90.007 and 7.0.2

mobo:
still working on it, haven't found a ssh command similar to lshw or hwinfo that works. And I have absolutely no idea what I used when I first assembled my htpc.

processor:
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 512 KB

graphics card:
single nvidia geforce 210 card.

ram: (ddr2 If I am not wrong)
MemTotal: 2029896 kB
MemFree: 986288 kB

Full dmesg:
dmesg - Pastebin.com

lspci:
lspci - Pastebin.com

lsusb:
lsusb - Pastebin.com

Audio Settings:
Audio Settings - Album on Imgur

Log that was created while watching a tv episode (with dts audio) from my nas using the latest dev version of libreelec.
Ubuntu Pastebin

I am open to any suggestions, just tell me if I should try to flash a different libreelec version and/or post different logs.