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Hi,
I did not make any changes and I do not hear any sound thru my receiver for dolby digital movies anymore! it was working perfectly before and I have no idea why it stopped working! Movies with mp3 etc seem to work. Any clues how I can troubleshoot this?
My settings in ATV2 is 16 bit - Dolby Digital ON - HDMI Auto
Setup: ATV2 Via HDMI to Denon receiver - This setup worked perfectly before!
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2011-09-17, 16:56
(This post was last modified: 2011-09-17, 17:14 by vskatusa.)
I had jailbrokern my ATV2 Long time back and have locked if from further updates and it worked perfectly with dolby digital. But now the dolby digital does not work (absolutely no sound). However AAC works.
My detailed environment.
ATV2 - Software jailbroken and updates blocked
ATV Software: 4.2.2 (2203)
OS Build Version: 4.3 (8F305)
ATV2 Audio Video Settings
Dolby Digital: on
Audio Output: 16 bit
HDMI: Auto
ATV2 -> HDMI -> DENON AVR Receiver 2807 -> hdmi to tv
guisettings.xml
<audiooutput>
<ac3passthrough>true</ac3passthrough>
<audiodevice>Default Output Device</audiodevice>
<channellayout>7</channellayout>
<dontnormalizelevels>true</dontnormalizelevels>
<dtspassthrough>true</dtspassthrough>
<mode>2</mode>
<passthroughaac>false</passthroughaac>
<passthroughmp1>false</passthroughmp1>
<passthroughmp2>false</passthroughmp2>
<passthroughmp3>false</passthroughmp3>
</audiooutput>
When I say "before" it was working...I did not make any changes to ATV2 software build.
When I change as follows
<ac3passthrough>false</ac3passthrough>
<dtspassthrough>false</dtspassthrough>
I can hear sound but not "dolby digital"!
If the above is true (this was the setup that always worked for me) I do not hear ANY sound. Normally the receiver will display "dolby digital" and I do not see it either if this true or false.
Any help to restore my Dolby Digital would be much appreciated.
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I updated to the latest nightly build xbmc Pre-11.0 Git: 20110916-0c3e6a3 (compiled Sep 16, 2011) and the results are the same - no dolby digital!
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I am suspecting my DENON AVR 2807 now --- I tried a laptop (instead of atv2) and the dolby digital is not working either! Maybe the dolby digital stuff in my amp is broken! I dont know. totally confused now
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davilla
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np, I have a Denon too, nice receiver but one of the most confusing to get setup that I've seen.