(2017-02-13, 02:58)nickr Wrote: There should be no difference in sound quality, although if the audio coming from your TV broadcaster is EAC3 (ie extended not plain ac3) then another thread tells me there might be problems.
Cool, thank you. I have not encountered EAC3 yet, but the encoding standards and sound seem to be on a channel by channel, and even a show by show basis, sometimes each commercial during the commercial break has its own video formatting, audio encoding and shifts between interlaced and non-interlaced. I wish they could just settle on one broadcast standard. at least per channel.
What about the alphabet soup of film standards? You know, Dolby this that or the other, with or without Atmos, and DTS, with or without Master HD or X?
(2017-02-13, 02:58)nickr Wrote: Set speakers on 5.1 (in kodi) if you have 5.1 real speakers.
Ahh, thanks. Right now I have it in 7.1 mode, and output configuration to "best match".
This appears to not upmix, but rather decode the channels it has, and send them along to the receiver.
For most TV content, the receiver seems to receive 5.1 channels as expected. I haven't tested a film encoded with 7.1 yet, but my expectation is that then it would send along the 7.1 channels, and my receiver would identify it as such, and engage the "Neural X" mode which uses its DSP to make the most out of those 7.1 channels and mix them together to output them over my 5.1 speakers.
After all, this is how it would work in audio pass-through mode. The receiver would receive all the audio channels that the content has, and mix them to the best of its ability.
No offense to the Kodi team or the underlying code it uses to mix audio (ffmpeg?) but unless I have evidence to the contrary, I feel like I trust my Denon receiver and it's DTS Neural X downmix/spacial remapping algorithm more with this task.
I could be wrong though, so if I am, please educate me! :p
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