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2015-01-11, 14:55
Hi,
It would be great if you could setup in the settings that kodi always uses chosen dlna player for audio. Video stays as is.
If you have raspberry near the projector and av device on the other side of the room, you could send audio trough the network to it.
I know you can set "play to" on the context menu, but it is not usefull if youalways have to set that up. And i didn't find that function when you watch pvr/live tv programs.
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2015-01-12, 04:26
(This post was last modified: 2015-01-12, 04:26 by Ned Scott.)
I believe this is possible using the default player option in
advancedsettings.xml (wiki). Just use the exact name as it appears for the UPnP device. You should be able to set this specifically for audio.
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Yeah, that's probably what he means now that I think of it.
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2015-01-12, 16:35
(This post was last modified: 2015-06-15, 11:50 by snoopy86.)
Great info! Now i'm on openelec (raspberry) so i will test rygel on different linux pc.
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2015-06-15, 11:47
(This post was last modified: 2015-06-15, 11:49 by NachbarsLumpi.)
I have tried to achieve the same (i.e. play the audio channels of a video on a dlna renderer) and eventually I was able to get it working as a proof of concept. The issue with rygel is, that the audio will always be delayed by some time because of reencoding and that by itself is an expensive operation that adds a lot of load to the cpu. If one does not want to have that load constantly or does not use the dlna rendering speakers exclusively to play the audio of kodi, it has to be enabled manually and this again is a PITA. Currently it works for me but I do not use it at all because of the manyfold manual steps required to set it up.
Currently it is possible to send a video to a dlna renderer by doing "play at .." but this results in the video to be not displayed anymore. It is even clear that kodi must behave like that because the dlna renderer might well be able to play the video. In my case the dlna renderers are just speakers that are smart enough to decode movies and play the audio of the video (i.e. to interact well with youtube). So if kodi had the ability to redirect only the audio of a video to a dlna renderer it would be ideal.
Does someone know if there are plans to support this feature?
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Yes this should be implemented in Kodi with upnp sync without the use of other sw or hw.
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Thats great and sounds interesting. Would you like to share more information?
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2016-03-09, 02:16
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AllJoyn supports synced audio streaming. And there are a bunch of compatible speakers on the market already. Not quite DLNA though, but usually they have DLNA also.
The problem seems no Kodi/pulseaudio support on this.. yet?
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is there any possible way to cast from a raspberry pi to the audio chromecast??