Develop Bugs

[Q] Audio only over HDMI

So I have my micro HDMI going into my home theater receiver and it works ok for video out of the Evo to the TV, but I'd really like to avoid adding another cable to go to the 3.5mm jack for playing MP3's or Pandora. Does anyone know of an app that will allow you to play purely audio over the HDMI out. As an aside, if I play MP3's while watching a movie, I can hear both...not quite what I'm going for but interesting none the less.

I think this is a great question... if we could figure out how to do that, we could make some very nice car docks that would only need the hdmi connector on the bottom for audio, instead of having to plug in the audio at the top after sliding it into place.

Junon said:
I think this is a great question... if we could figure out how to do that, we could make some very nice car docks that would only need the hdmi connector on the bottom for audio, instead of having to plug in the audio at the top after sliding it into place.
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How about a App that shows visualizations for the video part while playing the music?

squash35 said:
So I have my micro HDMI going into my home theater receiver and it works ok for video out of the Evo to the TV, but I'd really like to avoid adding another cable to go to the 3.5mm jack for playing MP3's or Pandora. Does anyone know of an app that will allow you to play purely audio over the HDMI out. As an aside, if I play MP3's while watching a movie, I can hear both...not quite what I'm going for but interesting none the less.
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I was actually looking to do audio only on hdmi as well. Tried a couple different things, but like you could not get anything to work. Though I didnt try playing mp3's and a movie at the same time, I might have to just try that to see what happens, lol.
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How about a App that shows visualizations for the video part while playing the music?
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Omg, this would be the greatest thing ever if someone could do it.

[Q] HDMI experience - audio out problem

I have been playing with HDMI out. Using official Samsung adapter EPL3FHU and TV Panasonic TH-42PX80E. So far I cannot get out audio consistently.
When connected first time, I had system sound off, so I could see picture, but no audio (form system) as expected. When playing movie with BSPlayer, VLC, or MX I got audio out of built-in speaker though (and not through TV).
Reconnected with system sound on, I could get system plonks and boings out of TV. Playing songs from Neutron was fine as well. Even playing original Samsung demo video via VLC produced sound on TV.
Then I tried one .mkv with DTS (which plays fine in BSPlayer with sound on internal speaker) and the sound through HDMI stopped working. Then I tried again Neutron, VLC, but I could not get even the apps that were working, working them again. System sounds are fine though.
And so far I was not able to recover.
It looks like there are some incompatibilities, probably between some players, sound formats which break one part of sound path (but not all, as system clicks are still transported correctly). And this break seems to be kind of permanent, until some reset. But simple reboot does not solve this.
I wonder what I might be missing.

I can partially reply to myself. The problem is that some players (it seems BSPlayer, and MX do that) cannot play DTS through HDMI (though BSPlayer can play it through internal speaker) and for some reason it resets volume settings for multimedia to zero (i.e. no sound). Once I realized that and "reenabled" volume for multimedia, it seems fine for Neutron, VLC and system sounds.
VLC can even play DTS through HDMI out, but for some reasons suffers from sound being out of sync with video.
So now the question remains, what is good video player, which can get out DTS through HDMI out.

Have you been able to get multichannel audio out HDMI?

[Q] Squealing during music playback

Got my S4 yesterday, and I'm having a major problem with playback while in my car.
In between songs or even in quiet parts of songs, there is an audible squealing noise during playback. This happens on the Google Music app, and the built-in music player (songs stored on SD card). This only happens in the car, not with the included Samsung earbuds. It also happens if I have it plugged in to charge, or not.
I've done some research on this forum, and come to the conclusion that perhaps attaching a ferrite core to the 3.5mm wire would help?
Thanks for any help!

Bit perfect

Is there an application enabling bitperfect streaming for media files like YouTube so that no up or down sampling is done?
This exists for audio only streaming: USB player pro apk. This allows me to do upsampling in the DAC or playing NOS, very useful for hirez audio files.
Audio signal goes out on USB to my audio stereo system and video signal goes straight to my TV by hdmi

Start audio and video when px5 media wakes up or falls asleep

Hello, a few days ago I tested the New Renault Captur. When you open the car door, a pleasant sound is heard, video is played and the media starts. Shortly after you close the door, the media plays video again and falls asleep! Can the same be done for auto media with a px5 chip?