Sounf "hanging" during playback through HDMI

[G4UFS]

Hi,

I have an odd problem whereby when playing internet radio through HDMI, the sound will first of all stop for a few seconds and then every 5 seconds or so, will replay approximately a quarter of a second of audio. this will then continue until I reboot the Pi.

It is my intention to try and use the Pi as a audio playback device, streaming internet radio using MPD as well as AirPlay for my iPhone and playing mp3 files. I can induce the fault if I do something odd like connect to using AirPlay or have festival text to speech say something whilst playing an internet radio stream. This might seem an odd thing to do but I have also noticed that just rebooting the Pi whilst plaing back an internet radio station will also cause it to produce the symptoms when its started back up and I run MPD.

When its hung like this, te MPC command simply does nothing and eventually times out and returned me to the command prompt.

Now, doing the same things when the audio output is set to the 3.5mm jack and whilst it has its little quirks, is much more robust. The only problem is that there are no clicks or pops using HDMI audio as there is with the 3.5mm jack.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I am running 2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian on a model B

Regards Dave

[Noki]

I have exactly the same problem and I don't have any idea at all. The playback is fine using the 3.5mm jack.

[Noki]

Just found out that playback works using mpg123. Using pulseaudio with mpd works also using HDMI:

I just replaced the alsa lines with:

audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "My MPD PulseAudio Output"
}

works now using mpd with hdmi