2014-05-03, 19:01
Hi there!
I've installed the latest Gotham RC1 on Linux Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14.04 for that matter). After playing a lot with the settings, I got passthrough as said in the wiki:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Pul...rough_Mode
Set pavucontrol to HDMI out (stereo), then checked AC3, EAC3 and DTS. After that, in XBMC, set the output device to Audio intern digital stereo (HDMI), HDMI/DisplayPort 3 (Pulse audio), best coincidence, limit to 96kHz, and enabled all the passthrough stuff.
Firing up a movie, Dolby Digital and DTS Passthrought works and I get surround sound. However, playing multi channel FLAC doesn't work, wether it is in a video file or a pure audio file, it is reproduced and 2.0 only. In Eden it would play as a 5.1 LPCM stream and worked great. If I enable Dolby transcode then I get 5.1, but I don't really like that solution (also the playback skips the song after some seconds, but that's another story).
If I set pavucontrol to 5.1, then I get multichannel everywhere, but no passthrough (as already pointed out on the wiki).
So... with which setting can I get Passthrought and 5.1 LPCM for FLAC files?? Is that even possible?
Thanks a lot!
I've installed the latest Gotham RC1 on Linux Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14.04 for that matter). After playing a lot with the settings, I got passthrough as said in the wiki:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Pul...rough_Mode
Set pavucontrol to HDMI out (stereo), then checked AC3, EAC3 and DTS. After that, in XBMC, set the output device to Audio intern digital stereo (HDMI), HDMI/DisplayPort 3 (Pulse audio), best coincidence, limit to 96kHz, and enabled all the passthrough stuff.
Firing up a movie, Dolby Digital and DTS Passthrought works and I get surround sound. However, playing multi channel FLAC doesn't work, wether it is in a video file or a pure audio file, it is reproduced and 2.0 only. In Eden it would play as a 5.1 LPCM stream and worked great. If I enable Dolby transcode then I get 5.1, but I don't really like that solution (also the playback skips the song after some seconds, but that's another story).
If I set pavucontrol to 5.1, then I get multichannel everywhere, but no passthrough (as already pointed out on the wiki).
So... with which setting can I get Passthrought and 5.1 LPCM for FLAC files?? Is that even possible?
Thanks a lot!