No HDMI Audio w/Arbmian OrangePiPC

DeterminedOpier

Hi all!

I posted this in the Armbian board and nobody seems to have an answer.

I am running Armbian desktop on an OpiPC, and it's great, except no HDMI audio.

But get this. When I burned a RetrOrangePi image, there is HDMI audio.

Here is the diagnostics link for the ROPI image:
http://sprunge.us/WDdG

I have tried to edit the asound.conf to what it is on the ROPI image, but didn't work. Also tried a few other example asound.conf files where HDMI sound reportedly works. It's a conundrum, and any help would definately help.

igorpec

I posted this in the Armbian board and nobody seems to have an answer.

Armbian HDMI audio works and we (can) only support official builds. Even that is hard enough. 3rd party builders changed something ... and we have no idea what.

DeterminedOpier

I thought Armbian was an official build. I can assure you that on a fresh image burn of desktop it does not work. I have tried two new ones on two different OpiPCs.

the latest is at:
http://sprunge.us/BPji

and other than apt-get update and upgrade nothing has been changed.

I have over 40 Opis, mostly PCs and Ones, and I am trying to accomplish a simple kiosk project with them.

igorpec

Well, official Armbian is only downloaded from our servers. You can check this way: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Gu ... wnload-authenticity ...

Latest version must show as 5.35 but the audio was working since ever IIRC. Default audio output might be set to analog, so you need to switch to HDMI. Second. Make sure you have proper powering - since power supply on the edge / powering via micro USB can cause nontypical problems, try booting without having anything on USB.

DeterminedOpier

As I explained, HDMI audio works with the RetrOrangePi image just fine, and as I also said, I have 40 Opis and I know not to use the microusb.  It is straight Armbian downloaded from your server, the desktop version, that I have only headphone jack audio. I have no idea how to switch from analog to HDMI. I'm not one of you smart guys. I'm a hack and completely task oriented.

DeterminedOpier

As I explained, HDMI audio works with the RetrOrangePi image just fine, and as I also said, I have 40 Opis and I know not to use the microusb.  It is straight Armbian downloaded from your server, the desktop version, that I have only headphone jack audio. I have no idea how to switch from analog to HDMI. I'm not one of you smart guys. I'm a hack and completely task oriented.

igorpec

I have no idea how to switch from analog to HDMI.

It is very simple and it works. I just checked on latest Ubuntu desktop image with legacy kernel. Click to audio settings/icon in upper right corner and switch "Default sink" to sndhdmi analogue stereo

I tested playing this video http://samplemedia.linaro.org/H2 ... fps_7200K_short.MP4

DeterminedOpier

Thanks. I knew it was something simple.  I'm going to put this in the armbian forum.