No Audio on Raspberry Pi 2 over HDMI

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Greetings,

I’ve been trying different settings for a couple hours now, and can’t get audio passed from my Raspberry Pi 2 running PMP 1.1.4. Some background.

-I have a Vizio XVT473SV. I’ve tried multiple HDMI cables on multiple inputs. HDMI audio passed from different sources can be heard w/ same cables on same ports.
-I did a clean install of PMP 1.1.3, then updated to 1.1.4. Never tried for audio w/ 1.1.3, as update was available upon first booting PMP (downloaded and wrote 1.1.3 to the SD card a couple days ago). I have never had audio come from PMP on the Raspberry Pi.
-I have tried both locally stored content and steamed content.
-Under Audio, I have device type set to HDMI, but have also tried Basic
-Under Channels, I have Stereo set, but have also tried 5.1 and auto.
-Under Device, I have Autoselect set, but have also tried bcm2835 ALSA… and Default(oss)
-I have toggled and tried Normalize Downmixed…
-I have no passthrough enabled.
-I have tried setting the video to different max bitrates.
-I have tried changing the Sync Mode.
-I have toggled Direct Play and Direct Stream.
-Volume level on TV has been tried at varying levels.
-Have tried plugging in speakers to TV’s optical output. Nothing heard.

I’m at a bit of a loss for what to do next. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

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Make a clean install again of v1.1.4

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Clean install completed, various configuration tried; still no audio.
Other possible approaches?

Also, verified again port and cable combo functional. Unplugged from Pi into Macbook Pro, audio was heard.

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I guess we need a player log.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/207338748-Plex-Media-Player-Logs

another method to get the log file is to call up the SMB share of the RasPi
smb://ip-of-raspberry-pi/Logfiles

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The SMB access is a significant time saver; thank you! Would highly support that being added to the support article about accessing PMP logs.

Logs attached.

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Hm, on the logs, everything looks fine (except the parts where OSS was selected).

It must be something related to HDMI or maybe volume control.

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Drat, that’s what I was hoping not to hear. Yeah, OSS was just to try, but as you can see, attempted mostly with other settings selected.

Since I’ve confirmed w/ multiple other sources that the cable/port combo can carry audio, I’m not quite sure where to go from here.

I appreciate all the assistance, and will continue watching the PMP versions progress, but shall look to other hardware solutions for now.

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@pntz said:
I appreciate all the assistance, and will continue watching the PMP versions progress, but shall look to other hardware solutions for now.

There is a second software option for the RasPi https://forums.plex.tv/categories/rasplex

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amixer cset numid=3 2 is what fixed it for me