snd_hda + ION + HDMI audio in 9.1-RC1

[Mickaël Maillot]

Hi,

2012/8/29 Gavin Chappell <gavin.chappell at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I've got an ION-based HTPC setup in my house, which I want to look
> into converting to FreeBSD from Ubuntu. One stumbling block so far is
> that I haven't been able to get HDMI audio to work thus far; the
> correct PCM devices seem to be recognised from the command line, but
> audio won't play either from the command line or from within XBMC. I
> saw an old thread on this list from the start of 2012 about the new
> snd_hda driver setup, at that time it was working on most discrete
> Nvidia GPUs but not the ION series, I'm just wondering whether anyone
> knows whether any progress has been made recently and whether it's
> worth me trying again with 9.1-RC1 (and then upgrading to -RELEASE
> when it's, well, released!)
>
can you try my xbmc-devel port:
svn co https://svn.redports.org/fneufneu/multimedia/xbmc-devel

it's Frodo alpha 4 with good OSS implementation.
i have an ION2 at home and it's works very well (with VDPAU).
the only ION issue i know is the no support of HBR bit on HDMI, so no
DTS-HDMA or TrueHD.