Update to 10.6.8 broke my optical audio - any help?

Thank you Clemus and PAPPL! Bought a new mac mini 2011 this week for use as a HTPC and couldn't understand what was happening to the sound when I switched from movie to movie in both Plex and XBMC. Was able to make the connection between stereo to DTS that was knocking it out. I was on the verge of returning the mini and sticking with my WD media player until I found this post. Your suggestions worked perfectly and now it all works as I'd hoped.

Now just to get the Harmony Remote to work the way I want and life will be good!

Thanks again.🙂

1nickali wrote:

Now just to get the Harmony Remote to work the way I want and life will be good!

Thanks again.🙂

If you haven't already, I'd recommend checking out http://miniharmony.blogspot.com/. He stopped updating before finishing his last FAQ but I found his tutorials to be extremely helpful when setting up my Harmony One for Plex / Boxee / XBMC on a my Mini

back to snow leopard subject :

I applied 10.6.8 "supplementary update", surround and stereo sound working now BUT there is a big glitch in my speakers when switching stereo to surround. I put back Applehda.kext from 10.6.7 and now this is ok.

Applehda.kext 1.9.9f12 is the last working fine extension for me.

So the update not solved completly the surround sound problem on my system.

If you have Lion, this issues seems to have been fixed in Lion 10.7.1. I just upgraded and now my audio is working perfectly.

From the patch notes:

"Resolve an issue that may cause system audio to stop working when using HDMI or optical audio out."

Yep. Just seen the update. Installed and tested. WooHoo. My HTPC is back in business!

are you using VLC? my audio is still buggy. I have to disable the track and enable it to get any sound. then when I switch to encoded out, it doesn't like it.

I was using XBMC which was working perfectly for DTS passthrough and whatnot. I have never been able to get encoded audio to work in VLC and this patch did not help in that respect. My VLC is working for outputting 7.1 PCM sound to my receiver though. I'm on a Mac Mini 2011 using HDMI btw.

I had issues with shutting down my computer after using xmbc... I assume you didn't have that experience?

I haven't noticed any issues with XBMC at all but I did just do a fresh install of Lion off of my recovery partition yesterday.

rohanb: Could you tell me how to do it?

I tried many methods but on VLC, I still have no 5.1 digital out

When my 5.1 sound on MBP Early 2011 will back to work normally?

well, after 10.7.1 audio is still bugged in vlc, mediaplayerx or xbmc... **** you apple...

I'm using Plex and that's working. I seem to remember seeing something about VLC suggesting that you would need to get a newer version once 10.7.1 came out as the API had changed. The link to that might even be in this thread.

I'm using a Late 2010 MBP connected to a Pioneer reciever via HDMI from the MiniDisplayPort...

I fixed the issue in the past, and it's stayed fixed with 10.71... Tested in VLC and XBMC.... Both work great following the official patch, only difference is the AppleHDA.kext is now at 2.11 as expected with Lion...

Works great, glad Apple got around to fixing it!!!

After installing the update to 10.7.1 my analog audio output is still broken on my 2010 MBP.

What kind of device are you trying to output to, and what kind of connection are you using?