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I'm having issues playing AAC 5.1 files from the rpi2.
Before that I had a atom media center and the sounds was ok.
Is there a settings that needs to be disabled/enabled? It seems that only specific channels getted passed trough because I can hear background noise but no voices etc.
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RPI2 -> Samsung LED TV (UF8500) -> SONOS PLAYBAR
I'm using the same Kodi build on a Atom mediaplayer (Xtreamer Ultra) with the same settings (stock), without any issues.
TV supports DTS/AC3/5.1 etc..
I'm using passthrough with DTS/AC3 capable.
Is it possible to decode/encode AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1? Because all DD5.1 and DTS movies/episodes are playing fine.
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2015-03-10, 17:12
(This post was last modified: 2015-03-10, 17:13 by johne.)
Hi all new here.
I've had a pi1 rev b 512ram model for a while using it on xbmc/kodi using raspbmc
thinking of getting a pi2
my question is would i see a noticable difference in picture quality while streaming live tv as on a 46" tv it's not the best quality
also would using openElec be better than using raspbmc
cheers
john
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Having owned both, a fully Overclocked RPi1 and now a RPi2 - the answer is the picture quality is exactly the same.
Deinterlacing is the same on both for Live TV as well.
The GPU/VPU was not upgraded, just the CPU cores and memory I understand.
Kodi GUI is a wee bit faster, and you can now do more than one thing in the background such as running a TvHeadend server and the Kodi client on the one Pi 2.
OpenElec and RaspBMC are speedwise - neck and neck.
People generally migrate to Openelec initially as it is a bit less confusing to setup with fewer options to baffle the Newb.
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2015-03-10, 19:48
(This post was last modified: 2015-03-10, 19:50 by johne.)
Thanks wrxtasy, thats exactly the answer i wanted even though i was hoping it would be an improvement but understand why it wouldn't be.
cheers
edited to add, do you have a ASUS Chromebox, as i guess a machine like that would give me a better picture quality...?
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Chromebox will do a better deinterlace of native interlaced content (though the MMAL stuff in the Pi / Pi 2 is not terrible and is x2), and may do a better SD to HD upscale than the Pi/Pi2 (but again the Pi does a pretty good job), but for 1080p output at 1080p there probably isn't much of a quality difference.
Garbage in, garbage out. Quality in, quality out.