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Having issues with the latest nightly build, well all of them to be honest. I have a HD audio capable video card and receiver. I have used DanielaE's version which has worked, some what, but I will get to that later. When having the audio set to WASPI I get no gui sound and with movies the video stutters and there is no audio. When using Direct Sound I get GUI sounds but HD audio streaming will not work at all, same as WASPI but the audio stutters. DanielaE version works great with streaming HD audio except for the fact that occasionally after pausing, the audio will stutter. At times it will make loud popping noises and I'm afraid it will damage my speakers which is why I tried this version. I have my audio set to HDMI and have all the options my receiver is capable to selected.
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2012-07-02, 16:23
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-02, 16:24 by robo989.)
Posted this in XBMCfreak's Frodo release thread and was suggested I post it here...
I've found a bug with outputting 5.1 FLAC decoded to 5.1 PCM over HDMI...
Output is 2 channel stereo, unless "output stereo sources to all speakers" is selected in the audio section of system settings. With this selected, it plays perfectly and outputs a 5.1 FLAC soundtrack to all speakers as it should.
Surely this selection box should simply be for duplicating a stereo signal to all speakers as it says, and 5.1 FLAC should be output as 5.1 regardless of this option.
Is this "normal"?
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Ah sorry didnt realize you were usimg Ubuntu.
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hi all...
i have an issue with just installed nightly and audioengine..
when enabling hdmi with 2.0 speakers and only AC3 enabled
audio out to directsound:hdmi
audio out passthrough to: directsound:SPDIF
I have only sound on my panasonic receiver (via SPDIF) but not on my panasonic TV
when disabling AC3 and keeping the other settings as is i have only sound on my TV but not on the receiver...
any thoughts?
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Hope this is in the right place. my apologies if it is not. Went and installed Frodo Alpha 6 after reading about all the awesome new AudioEngine features. Maybe I interpreted wrong but isn't it suppose to be able to decode DTS-HD MA 7.1 to the 7.1 analog channels on my sound card which are hooked up to my receiver (not through HDMI or optical.. good ol' analog)? I have been recoding my MA tracks to FLAC 7.1 for the longest time.. while this works it takes extra time obviously. I tried it today and while xbmc shows TrueHD content as 7.1 and outputs as such, but it is reporting DTS-HD MA still as 5.1 when I KNOW the 7.1 track is there. Am I doing something wrong or am I still going to have to re encode my stuff to flac to play it this way?
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And the DTS core is 5.1, which is why you're only getting 5.1
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Will this eventually be ported across all platforms that XBMC supports?
AudioEngine has some benefits over the pre-existing code, even on hardware that doesn't support 24bit multichannel bitstreams. For instance, transcoding surround sources to AC3/DTS, when output would otherwise be 2 channel PCM.