2017-01-01, 09:48
Hi everyone,
Running Kodi v17 RC2 pushed out today, but this isn't totally new - I switched away from Jarvis when Krypton Beta 6 came out, and really the same question applies to Jarvis.
I searched the forum for a solid answer to this audio decoding question, but everything I find doesn't quite touch on what I'm looking for unless I missed it. (Very possible.)
I have the Nvidia SHIELD, and, according to Nvidia's "level 2" aka "escalation team" there is a known issue with audio passthrough that is only affecting certain customers (myself included). It was reportedly discovered early December, I guess because it's not affecting a large portion of the user base. (Plex passthrough fails, Android native video player passthrough fails, ES File Explorer Media Player passthrough fails.) Lucky me.
So with passthrough turned off, my DTS-HD MA / TrueHD capable receiver is of course only showing that it's receiving PCM.
Nearly my entire library is either DTS-HD MA or TrueHD ONLY; of course DTS-HD MA has the core built in, but TrueHD doesn't. A few files are AC3, which I'm guessing Kodi handles without issue within the software itself. I AM getting clearly discrete multi-channel audio with passthrough disabled in Kodi - I just don't know what the heck it is! W/passthrough enabled, it won't even play the file...it just gets stuck - again - known issue at Nvidia, only affecting a small group of unlucky folks. "Our engineers are working on it." kind of thing. Already tried different HDMI cables, ports, etc. Blu-Ray player bitstreams without issue to the same receiver.
I know that in Jarvis, there was a very clear statement in the changelog that support for DTS-HD MA 8-channel decoding received support, and it was also shown in the System Settings ---> Audio section.
The question: What IS Kodi passing via PCM to my receiver with passthrough off, as it sounds fairly decent and, but of course I don't get the format confirmation from my receiver when it's receiving unencoded audio of some sort.
Any insight is appreciated. Thanks!
Running Kodi v17 RC2 pushed out today, but this isn't totally new - I switched away from Jarvis when Krypton Beta 6 came out, and really the same question applies to Jarvis.
I searched the forum for a solid answer to this audio decoding question, but everything I find doesn't quite touch on what I'm looking for unless I missed it. (Very possible.)
I have the Nvidia SHIELD, and, according to Nvidia's "level 2" aka "escalation team" there is a known issue with audio passthrough that is only affecting certain customers (myself included). It was reportedly discovered early December, I guess because it's not affecting a large portion of the user base. (Plex passthrough fails, Android native video player passthrough fails, ES File Explorer Media Player passthrough fails.) Lucky me.
So with passthrough turned off, my DTS-HD MA / TrueHD capable receiver is of course only showing that it's receiving PCM.
Nearly my entire library is either DTS-HD MA or TrueHD ONLY; of course DTS-HD MA has the core built in, but TrueHD doesn't. A few files are AC3, which I'm guessing Kodi handles without issue within the software itself. I AM getting clearly discrete multi-channel audio with passthrough disabled in Kodi - I just don't know what the heck it is! W/passthrough enabled, it won't even play the file...it just gets stuck - again - known issue at Nvidia, only affecting a small group of unlucky folks. "Our engineers are working on it." kind of thing. Already tried different HDMI cables, ports, etc. Blu-Ray player bitstreams without issue to the same receiver.
I know that in Jarvis, there was a very clear statement in the changelog that support for DTS-HD MA 8-channel decoding received support, and it was also shown in the System Settings ---> Audio section.
The question: What IS Kodi passing via PCM to my receiver with passthrough off, as it sounds fairly decent and, but of course I don't get the format confirmation from my receiver when it's receiving unencoded audio of some sort.
Any insight is appreciated. Thanks!