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tom66

2013-09-11, 19:52
I have a Yamaha RX-V459 AV receiver which only supports PCM, Dolby 5.1 and DTS 5.1 over coax.

A lot of my content has an AAC 5.1 soundtrack. My receiver does not support AAC so I disabled that feature. But, I only get 2.0 sound from these channels (I can see the two speaker icons on my receiver only compared to normal 5.1 surround with all 6 speakers), and it's transmitted over uncompressed PCM.

Is it possible to make XBMC transcode the AAC 5.1 into Dolby or DTS 5.1, so I get surround sound content from these files?

Thanks

Memphiz

2013-09-12, 16:07
Depending on the version of XBMC and the platform you are using this is already possible and automagically done.

tom66

2013-09-12, 16:26
I'm on XBMC 12.2. It doesn't appear to work, unless I'm missing something? Is this an XBMC 13 feature?

I am using the default AVR SPDIF settings suggested here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Aud...ings_Guide

Thanks

tom66

2013-09-12, 17:11
D'oh... I had AC3 turned off. It appears to work now.
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