2020-02-06, 21:20
Hello good people.
I've been using Kodi since it was on the good old glorious first xbox and I come to you with a problem that I've encountered in recent days.
Kodi 18.5 is installed on a very light Windows 10 machine, been there few years now.
Audio goes inside a Yamaha Av receiver via HDMI and then outputs onto my good old Panasonic Plasma Tv.
I've noticed in the past few days this weird behaviour: any video that has AAC as audio and it is 5.1, only come out on left and right channel.
I tried all combination, including disabling passthrough for the receiver, swapping the WASAPI protocol for the DIRECTSOUND one, even if it pretty much kills the option of my receiver to decode DTS and all that stuff.
Nothing worked.
For a good measure I did a clean windows 10 instal and then Kodi as well, but the result is always the same.
Odly enough any other source that has 5.1, DOLBI with all its variations etc, works like a charm.
Even a 2.0 aac works fine.
And I never had this issue since few days ago. I probably did miss something when I jumped from 18.4 to 18.5, maybe?
When I load a video file with audio 5.1 aac and check the info of the file while it runs, it does identify the challens properly: FL, FR, FC, LFE, BL, BR, ff-aac, 32bits, 48,000 hz etc.
Any suggestions?
UPDATE
I managed to fix the issue setting the speakers to 2.0 and then using the transcoding option.
What I don't understand still is why this happens now.
It worked fine up to few days/weeks ago, no problem on any signal, even the True HD and DTS Master Audio.
Are the current settings I've implemented the proper ones?
I've been using Kodi since it was on the good old glorious first xbox and I come to you with a problem that I've encountered in recent days.
Kodi 18.5 is installed on a very light Windows 10 machine, been there few years now.
Audio goes inside a Yamaha Av receiver via HDMI and then outputs onto my good old Panasonic Plasma Tv.
I've noticed in the past few days this weird behaviour: any video that has AAC as audio and it is 5.1, only come out on left and right channel.
I tried all combination, including disabling passthrough for the receiver, swapping the WASAPI protocol for the DIRECTSOUND one, even if it pretty much kills the option of my receiver to decode DTS and all that stuff.
Nothing worked.
For a good measure I did a clean windows 10 instal and then Kodi as well, but the result is always the same.
Odly enough any other source that has 5.1, DOLBI with all its variations etc, works like a charm.
Even a 2.0 aac works fine.
And I never had this issue since few days ago. I probably did miss something when I jumped from 18.4 to 18.5, maybe?
When I load a video file with audio 5.1 aac and check the info of the file while it runs, it does identify the challens properly: FL, FR, FC, LFE, BL, BR, ff-aac, 32bits, 48,000 hz etc.
Any suggestions?
UPDATE
I managed to fix the issue setting the speakers to 2.0 and then using the transcoding option.
What I don't understand still is why this happens now.
It worked fine up to few days/weeks ago, no problem on any signal, even the True HD and DTS Master Audio.
Are the current settings I've implemented the proper ones?