This question could have been in the Emby Theater topic too. But as it has to do specifically with a DAC HAT on a RPi 4, I put it here.
Also, this question is specifically for music, not video; if that matters. So, setting up Emby Theater on a RPi 4 using the canned image was simple and worked perfect and I connected immediately to my server on the first boot. (presently using an HDMI display but plan to make a turn-key device using an official 7" display, along with a DAC HAT on the bac
OMG, what a waste of time! Please disregard the above. If I had permissions to edit posts I delete everything related to the HiFiBerry DACs above...
The reason my HiFiBerry DACs seemed like they should be working but weren't -- as everything on the digital side was working both in software (alsa, aplay, pactl list, etc) and in hardware (as the green activity light was coming on) -- was that the analog section / output buffer failed! On both of my HiFiBerry DAC2 Pros that I have!
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