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I also got it to work using the optical to coax adapter..
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That's cool...
I'm glad it helped more people... hopefully a few other people with these Problems read my post and are able to fix it...
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@rawkill:
what version are you using ?
Which audio format are your files (aac does not work)...
More info would be nice.
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mhh,...
Did you try turning on ac3 and dts in system settings under system->audio->ac3 and dts.
check both boxes and tell xbmc to output 7.1.
Also in a movie, try holding the middle button on the remote and going into audio settings. What is written there ? ac3, dts, stereo, ... over hdmi, optical/koaxial or analog? Don't check the: stereo over all speakers menu item.
let's search more. I'm sure there is a fix.
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how about rejailbreaking that thing ?
Did you try just plugging the hdmi into the tv ?
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I tried Keiserleins trick of playing around with the Receiver Decoding and setting it to auto while in HDMI mode ( I Have a Denon AVR391 reciever). It was already set to Auto and there was static (Receiver Displays PCM input). I did however switch the decode mode to DTS and then back to Auto while the movie was playing and then I had full AC3 and DTS audio decoding. It appears that there is something going on in the bitstream being handed off to the reciever which makes it get interpreted as a PCM stream or perhaps the initial HDMI handshaking is messed up?. Perhaps XBMC sending out the wrong format information or perhaps its missing an encoding header. Perhaps some recievers may be better at guessing the format than others?
Another strange thing is that after switching back and forth between dts and back to Auto decode mode it will correctly playback all Ac3 and dts streams until you turn off the reciever. At which time you have to swap back between DTS and auto decode mode on the receiver before it all works again.
Outside of XBMC, AC3 movies streams fine directly from iTunes via HDMI and get decoded correctly without doing the manual DTS -> Auto trickery on the reciever. I have a NETTOP running XBMC and it works fine with this reciever as well.
Optical out works fine though with AppleTV 2G XBMC and I think I'll stick with that for now.
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Hello.
I'm running software version 4.1.1, os build version 4.2.1 and xbmc 10.0-6.
I've tried playing with the different settings from the config file, as well as connecting to an external decoder through the optical output.
If I choose optical out, I get a glitch when the movie starts, then nothing.
I've tried with 2 different decoders, same result.
However, the clic sound of the original Apple TV interface menu is being heard when going from one item to the other, using the optical out through the same decoder. So, the problem seems to be with XBMC itself.
With the second optical decoder I have on hand, I get loud static.
Also, if I choose "analog out" or "hdmi out", I get sound, but as with everyone else, the center channel gets sent to the right front channel. The downmix matrix is wrong.
Any ideas?