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Hello,
I upgraded Kodi from 16.1 to 17 yesterday. Now, audio passthrough of Dolby Digital is not working anymore for Live-TV and TV Recordings (using TV Headend). When I start the same file of a TV recording over Videos, passthrough over HDMI to the receiver is working.
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2017-02-19, 17:52
(This post was last modified: 2017-02-19, 17:54 by noggin.)
This has been discussed at quite a lot of length in a number of threads here... It's a conscious decision to change the way Live TV works made by the Kodi devs due to the way the PVR subsystem is implemented AIUI.
You have a couple of options :
1. If you have HDMI PCM 5.1-friendly gear you'll get 5.1 PCM (should be near identical to passthrough in quality terms)
2. If you only have SPDIF - enable transcode to Dolby Digital (which will re-encode to DD for 5.1 stuff)
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Ok, I will try to read more about that change.
But, I would suggest to explicitly mention in the settings GUI that passthrough is not supported anymore by Live-TV and TV-recordings. Otherwise, more people will wonder and search.
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2017-02-20, 16:15
(This post was last modified: 2017-02-20, 16:16 by FernetMenta.)
If passthrough does not work for recordings, the backend/addon of your choice has an issue.
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I use TV-Headend as backend. Can it be confirmed by other TV-Headend users, that Passthrough is not used anymore with Kodi 17?
As I already said, playing the same recording file from Video uses Passthrough, while playing it from TV/Recordings don't uses Passthrough.