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ggverc1 · 2012-08-20, 20:19

Hello dear XMBC community.

I have a question regarding my audio settings. I run a NAS thecus N5550 with the XBMC module installed on it. The NAS is connected to my tv with a HDMI cable. I have a home theatre system (BOSE V30), but there is no more room for another HDMI cable.

Now when I play a movie with surround sound, my system plays it only in stereo sound. I can't seem to set this right in the settings menu ...

Can you help me with this issue? Help is very much appreciated. If there is anymore information needed to help me solve this, you can ask away.

Thanks,
Geoffrey

kanedamgm · 2012-08-20, 20:37

How is your receiver hooked up currently? Does your tv have an audio out other than rca? Mine has a digital coax that I use.

ggverc1 · 2012-08-20, 21:22

My receiver is connected to my tv with optical and HDMI.

bluray · 2012-08-20, 21:23

@ggverc1-

Are you connecting your system this way- NAS-->HDTV-->Bose via HDMI and optical cables? The bottleneck might be your HDTV, because most HDTV's only support 2-channel audio.....

ggverc1 · 2012-08-20, 22:11

@bluray:
that's correct: NAS -> HDTV -> Bose via HDMI and optical.

However, when I play the same file on a USB stick in my tv, I get the surround sound without a problem. So i don't think that's the bottlneck. I more think of a setting in the XBMC program. I can't imagine I'm the only one who connects the NAS to a home theatre system?

**Memphiz** · 2012-08-20, 22:26

Most tvs don't pass through audio from hdmi to optical. They instead downmix it to stereo and feed that out to optical. You either want to got via hdmi to your receiver and from there to your tv or you need to connect your htpc via optical to the receiver.

The XBMC settings are really straight forward in that manner and you can't do much wrong there. Just tic AC3 and DTS capable receiver and setup your speaker config (5.1 for example) and thats it.

rjvromans · (This post was last modified: 2012-08-21, 16:52 by rjvromans.)

Hi,

I also have the Thecus N5550 with XBMC 11.
My setup would be NAS->AV Receiver (Marantz sr7005)->TV/Speakers.
I also still have stereo when playing a .MKV with DTS inside. The lights on my receiver show thats stereo incoming.

I checked my settings in XBMC and of course have ticked the 2 options( AC3 and DTS capable receiver).
It's running Linux 2.6. What do you advise to check in order to resolve this issue?

See this thread too on the Thecus Forums: http://forum.thecus.com/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=4141

**Memphiz** · 2012-08-21, 18:34

Post a debug xbmc.log. And don't pm me. I read everything - it doesn't matter if i get a pm to get pointed to some particular threads.

rjvromans · 2012-08-21, 22:34

Sorry for the PM,

Since I am no Linux expert, when I am able to find the log file, I will post it.

artrafael · 2012-08-21, 22:49

(2012-08-21, 22:34)rjvromans Wrote: Sorry for the PM,

Since I am no Linux expert, when I am able to find the log file, I will post it.

See here: debug log (wiki)

rjvromans · 2012-08-22, 21:04

Thanks for that link Smile

.
Here is my debug file. Many thanks in advance.

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=7070

**Memphiz** · 2012-08-22, 22:56

You are using an external player (mplayer). The sound setting only affects the internal xbmc player. External player has to be configured on its own.

rjvromans · 2012-08-23, 08:39

Thank you very much for the quick reply.

XBMC was part of a package supplied by Thecus so I didn't configure it.
I will look into using the internal player. No idea yet but I will find out Smile

Regards,

Ronald

**Memphiz** · 2012-08-23, 10:40

look into your advancedsettings.xml (see wiki.xbmc.org)

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2012-08-23, 10:45

(2012-08-23, 10:40)Memphiz Wrote: look into your advancedsettings.xml (see wiki.xbmc.org)

Throw some double brackets around advancedsettings.xml and it will make it into a link to the wiki :D

[[advancedsettings.xml]] = advancedsettings.xml (wiki)