If you have my problem, the player won't play at all- it just sits there.

I ran it in the default player (Videos) with preferences/audio set to ac3 passthough. Run pavucontrol (or Menu/Sound and Video/Pulse Audio Volume Control),and the 5.1 settings show up! Set it to one of the digital 5.1 modes in the config tab. Open it and check the 'Enable source code repositories.' Otherwise you'll fail on theĬode: Select all sudo apt-get pavucontrol before following the 'Building/Installing Required a52 Plugin' in the above guide, go to Menu/Preferences/Software Sources. This guide was the solution that worked for me.Ī missing note for newbs like me. I did a lot of surfing and finally I found an article that mentioned that the a52 plugin was missing entirely. I ended up doing a fresh install to fix it- No loss, as I'd just installed anyway, but you might want to avoid it. However this doesn't seem to work with Cinnamon as I attempted it and found I was still confined to stereo via some remnant of Pulseaudio. In the past, I'd just uninstall Pulseaudio using this guide and install Alsa and be done with it. My HTPC Box is connected to the reciever spdif via toslink. up until you try to configure sound for anything that isn't vanilla stereo. Linux Mint has the slickest install of any distro I've seen.

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