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For someone not wanting to add his patches to main you're promoting your stuff an awful lot. Since KODI is about all kinds of media people will not readily change to a fork just for SACD. What kind of incentive would you need to be willing to move your stuff to main? I'm sure I could get a few people to sponsor ISO and tag reading.
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2015-03-13, 09:26
(This post was last modified: 2015-03-13, 09:32 by ironic_monkey.)
i don't deal with the bureacracy. code is there, anybody can take it and use it for whatever as long as they respect the license. this includes backporting to mainline. i was part of the project for ten years, so it's not that i don't want to share my code, i wrote shitload of the code that churns through your pipes... however, the project has rotted and turned into something i don't want to be part of, eaten up by its own bureaucratic procedures and fear of change. it has been better lately but i'm in no way convinced it is cured.
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have a look at the pvr changes, audiodecoder, audioencoder addons and to some extent chapter menu. it all originated in my work. i am doing just that, but through individuals i can work with.
it is NOT about personal conflicts, it never was, though certain individuals did give the term idiot new dimensions. it is about a system gone wrong and the inability of the organization to identify and deal with the problem.
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I will soon buy a Pioneer SC-LX58 or LX78 - with the goal (in addition to some other stuff) to be able to play DSF, DFF Files from within KODI.
I'll post my test results when I'm ready to test.
Looking forward.
My Equipment:
HTPC (i7-8700K 3.7 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) Windows 10 with Kodi 18.6 & Central SQL DB (Maria DB)
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I have SACD/DSF playback mostly working on my RPi2 using OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 15.0), build #417. The RPi2 is connected via HDMI to my Onkyo receiver.
2 channel files play fine. The receiver shows fs:192KHz.
Multi-channel files are problematic. If I use either the default PAPlayer or DVDPlayer, the music stutters badly. I noticed my receiver showed fs:96KHz, so I thought the sample rate might be too high for the RPI2 to handle in 5.1. I found a work around that allows multi-channel files to play mostly correctly. If I set the System - Settings, Audio output to the following, I get stutter-free 5.1 playback with DVDPlayer. PAPlayer still stutters though.
Audio output device: HDMI
Number of channels: 7.1
Output configuration: Fixed
Limit sampling rate (kHz): 48.0
The key was to limit the sampling rate to 48 KHz. The Onkyo shows fs:48KHz and sound is perfect with one caveat: the 2 rear surround speakers are used instead of the 2 side surround speakers that one would expect for a 5.1 output. This just seems to be an HDMI channel mapping problem. I tried to set "Number of channels: 5.1" but I got no sound when playing a DSF file at all with that setting (GUI sounds still work).
I'm wondering how hard it would be to implement a configurable sampling rate limit when transcoding DSD/DSF files to LPCM for output over HDMI, with perhaps a different limit for 2-channel vs. multi-channel, and also how to adjust the output speaker mapping over HDMI. It would be nice to not have to limit my whole system to a Fixed 48.0 KHz, or to have to change these settings when playing DSF files and change them back for everything else.
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Hello,
I have a problem. My DSF files does'nt appear in Kodi. The folder look empty...
Can someone help me to solve this issue ?
I use OpenELEC on a Raspberry Pi 2. I try both Kodi 14 ans Kodi 15 beta and it's the same.
Also tried Fixed audio output and other settings but nothing look different.
Thanks
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hi,
as I see the discussion on SACD/ DSD passthrough, has stopped a while ago, is there anyone who could help to understand if there is any chance that KODI will be able to passthrough DSD, if so when. Anything we (plain music lover users) could do to accelerate this?