2015-04-11, 20:39
Hi there,
I was previously running OpenELEC "Eden" on a Pi B, HDMI to an HDMI-switch which extracts audio to optical SPDIF which runs into my audio decoder, capable of decoding DolbyDigital and DTS. I could easily select passthrough in XBMC and everything worked as expected.
I tried upgrading to "Gotham" a while ago and passthrough was not working, so I reverted back to "Eden" then, because for me the passthrough was more important than using "Gotham".
Now I upgraded to a new Pi 2 and needed to upgrade the system also, so I made the jump to Kodi "Helix" and there the passthrough option also is not there, even when settings are switched to Expert. Somehow the Pi seems to think the HDMI-switch is not able to decode Audio and so doesn't even offer the passthrough option.
I tried to directly edit GUIsettings.xml, but this also didn't work. Somehow, since Gotham some passthrough-options seem to be broken.
I have read a few forum posts all over the web, stating that same problem but could not find any solution. Please, could anyone fix that or tell me how to force Kodi to passthrough AC3 and DTS through HDMI?
Thanks,
MisterMaggi
I was previously running OpenELEC "Eden" on a Pi B, HDMI to an HDMI-switch which extracts audio to optical SPDIF which runs into my audio decoder, capable of decoding DolbyDigital and DTS. I could easily select passthrough in XBMC and everything worked as expected.
I tried upgrading to "Gotham" a while ago and passthrough was not working, so I reverted back to "Eden" then, because for me the passthrough was more important than using "Gotham".
Now I upgraded to a new Pi 2 and needed to upgrade the system also, so I made the jump to Kodi "Helix" and there the passthrough option also is not there, even when settings are switched to Expert. Somehow the Pi seems to think the HDMI-switch is not able to decode Audio and so doesn't even offer the passthrough option.
I tried to directly edit GUIsettings.xml, but this also didn't work. Somehow, since Gotham some passthrough-options seem to be broken.
I have read a few forum posts all over the web, stating that same problem but could not find any solution. Please, could anyone fix that or tell me how to force Kodi to passthrough AC3 and DTS through HDMI?
Thanks,
MisterMaggi