On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 03:14:09PM +0100, Simon Morgan wrote:
> I have a HitPoint HCMI-5.1CH-OF which uses the cmpci chipset. I am not
> an audiophile type (64kbps vorbis sounds good to me) but the sound
> quality is particularly bad in that there is a lot of hissing in the
> background even though I'm listening at a nominal volume. I would be
> inclined to think it was a hardware problem if it weren't for the fact
> that the sound quality is fine under Linux. Does anybody have any idea
> what the problem could be? Are there any settings that might make a
> difference (I've tried muting all the other channels)?
After playing around a bit this only seems to happen with DVDs. CDs and
MP3s are OK. I am guessing this might have something to do with the fact
that DVD sound is encoded at 48KHz. Does this help?
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