[Matt Devo]

Hey Matt,

When I play a movie HD Audio does not appear to work. Local movies play fine with the appropriate audio. My AVR displays to current audio format when playing local media however non-local movies remain in stereo and does not switch. I'm connected via HDMI to the AVR. Does the external USB CEC adapter mentioned on the wiki address this problem?

Thanks

I'm not understanding the specifics of the problem - what do you mean by non-local movie? As long as you have passthrough and the HD audio formats enabled under Settings/System/Audio Output, that should be sufficient regardless of the media's location.

Also, CEC has nothing to do with audio, it's just remote control via HDMI - so you can use your TV/AVR remote to control Kodi without a separate (or universal) remote

[tate16t]

Hey Matt,

When I play a movie HD Audio does not appear to work. Local movies play fine with the appropriate audio. My AVR displays to current audio format when playing local media however non-local movies remain in stereo and does not switch. I'm connected via HDMI to the AVR. Does the external USB CEC adapter mentioned on the wiki address this problem?

Thanks

I'm not understanding the specifics of the problem - what do you mean by non-local movie? As long as you have passthrough and the HD audio formats enabled under Settings/System/Audio Output, that should be sufficient regardless of the media's location.

Also, CEC has nothing to do with audio, it's just remote control via HDMI - so you can use your TV/AVR remote to control Kodi without a separate (or universal) remote

By local I mean movies played from my NAS.

[Matt Devo]

By local I mean movies played from my NAS.

So you just have the network path mapped as a source in Kodi, using SMB or NFS? If so, there no reason for there to be any issue with the audio output. All of my content is streamed from my NAS via SMB, and HD audio works perfectly (Dolby THD/Atmos, DTS HD-MA)

[BoxFreak]

By local I mean movies played from my NAS.

And non-local?

[wackid]

By local I mean movies played from my NAS.

So you just have the network path mapped as a source in Kodi, using SMB or NFS? If so, there no reason for there to be any issue with the audio output. All of my content is streamed from my NAS via SMB, and HD audio works perfectly (Dolby THD/Atmos, DTS HD-MA)

Hey you mentioned Atmos. I am planning for Atmos too. Just have to wait until Onkyo release their RZ series beasts.
So it will play all Atmos dts:X formats on the Celeron Chromebox?

[BoxFreak]

Hey you mentioned Atmos. I am planning for Atmos too. Just have to wait until Onkyo release their RZ series beasts.
So it will play all Atmos dts:X formats on the Celeron Chromebox?

No Audyssey - no more Onkyo. AccuEQ is just a bad joke.

[tate16t]

By local I mean movies played from my NAS.

So you just have the network path mapped as a source in Kodi, using SMB or NFS? If so, there no reason for there to be any issue with the audio output. All of my content is streamed from my NAS via SMB, and HD audio works perfectly (Dolby THD/Atmos, DTS HD-MA)

Yes. Anything played from the NAS works well. Items I play from Add-ons that are HD Audio do not playback in HD Audio.

[Matt Devo]

Hey you mentioned Atmos. I am planning for Atmos too. Just have to wait until Onkyo release their RZ series beasts.
So it will play all Atmos dts:X formats on the Celeron Chromebox?

yep

Yes. Anything played from the NAS works well. Items I play from Add-ons that are HD Audio do not playback in HD Audio.

then it's an issue with said addon and should be taken up with whomever provides it; either way, it's not an issue with the Chromebox itself and not a topic to be discussed here

[Neil123]

I have given up on my HDMI handshake problem. It was driving me crazy.. Tried everything to get the handshake and get a Kodi screen when i boot. Was about to fork out 800 quid for a new AVR when I got a email from Harman Kardon with a easy fix. Connect Chromebox direct to Tv, optical cable to AVR job done. No handshake issue anymore with AVR.

I'm glad you found a workable solution, but wish there was a better way to troubleshoot these HDMI handshaking issues. Unfortunately, a lot of that is handled by the video BIOS, which is closed source, so we really don't have a lot of insight.

It works so I'm happy., Thanks for help and advice.appreciate it..

[wackid]

Hey you mentioned Atmos. I am planning for Atmos too. Just have to wait until Onkyo release their RZ series beasts.
So it will play all Atmos dts:X formats on the Celeron Chromebox?

No Audyssey - no more Onkyo. AccuEQ is just a bad joke.

Just read the reviews on the new. AccuEQ on the RZ series. It's drastically improved. Subs are now taken in the measurements.

Sorry for Off topic.

[robca]

Not sure if it's an appropriate question to ask here, but I'll try

I have OpenELEC running perfectly on my Asus ChromeBox, with TvHeadEnd happily displaying live TV using an HDHomeRun ATSC tuner (I live in the USA).

I'm now trying to configure the EPG using zap2xml. I know I could use xmltv and Schedules Direct, but I'd like to use zap2it if possible. Problem is: there's no zap2xml addon, and the zap2xml script is a perl script (and as far as I can tell, no perl in OpenELEC)

Is there a way to easily run zap2xml, or do I need to install perl first? And, if so, any pointer for a lightweight perl that runs well on OpenELEC

Needless to say, I'm stil pretty lost when it comes to Linux setups...

[Matt Devo]

Not sure if it's an appropriate question to ask here, but I'll try

I have OpenELEC running perfectly on my Asus ChromeBox, with TvHeadEnd happily displaying live TV using an HDHomeRun ATSC tuner (I live in the USA).

I'm now trying to configure the EPG using zap2xml. I know I could use xmltv and Schedules Direct, but I'd like to use zap2it if possible. Problem is: there's no zap2xml addon, and the zap2xml script is a perl script (and as far as I can tell, no perl in OpenELEC)

Is there a way to easily run zap2xml, or do I need to install perl first? And, if so, any pointer for a lightweight perl that runs well on OpenELEC

Needless to say, I'm stil pretty lost when it comes to Linux setups...

I also run TvHeadEnd on my Chromebox with a HDHR, the backend running on my Synology NAS. Even then, I've given up on trying to get EPG working, it just seems like way too much of a hassle after having put a few hours into it. Your best bet is probably on the PVR subforums here or on the OE forums for people running the backend and client on the same device.

[zeroq]

Sorry if this is allready answered. But when upgrading to beta. We will loose the Fritsch enhancements? AFAIK Fritsch left the development.
Will this feature released in further OE versions?

Kodi 16 doesn't have the EGL enhancements that the v15.2 tech preview builds do, but Kodi v17 will, as it will be part of the mainline code there. fritsch and fernetmenta are hard at work now on it, have been for months.

there was a disagreement between some of the Kodi devs and fritsch took a strong position and was going to walk away, but it was ultimately resolved

Matt Devo,
Are you going to build kodi 16 with EGL any time soon? I'm using OpenELEC 6.95.1 at the moment but i think picture is better and more clear on OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL if this is true i'm happy to use OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL until OpenELEC 17 is more stable. What do you think?

[nickr]

Sorry if this is allready answered. But when upgrading to beta. We will loose the Fritsch enhancements? AFAIK Fritsch left the development.
Will this feature released in further OE versions?

Kodi 16 doesn't have the EGL enhancements that the v15.2 tech preview builds do, but Kodi v17 will, as it will be part of the mainline code there. fritsch and fernetmenta are hard at work now on it, have been for months.

there was a disagreement between some of the Kodi devs and fritsch took a strong position and was going to walk away, but it was ultimately resolved

Matt Devo,
Are you going to build kodi 16 with EGL any time soon? I'm using OpenELEC 6.95.1 at the moment but i think picture is better and more clear on OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL if this is true i'm happy to use OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL until OpenELEC 17 is more stable. What do you think?

I don't think you'll see that. There is no EGL code for 16. Fritsch moved from 15 to 17.

[Matt Devo]

Matt Devo,
Are you going to build kodi 16 with EGL any time soon? I'm using OpenELEC 6.95.1 at the moment but i think picture is better and more clear on OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL if this is true i'm happy to use OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL until OpenELEC 17 is more stable. What do you think?

There will not be an EGL version of Kodi 16. If you prefer the 15.2 EGL version, stick with that until v17 is released.