2015-03-07, 18:21
I am running a Onkyo receiver TX-SR606 along with my HTPC. The Onkyo is well known for the capacitors in the HDMI board to go bad.
I ran my HTPC (Ubuntu 14.x KODI with nightly updates) HDMI directly to my Vizio TV bypassing the Onkyo until I get around to operating on it.
Up until the release of Kodi 14.x the audio from the TV was fine when watching standard 2 channel stereo programming. After a few nightly updates later, I noticed what sounds like a Phase shift in the audio along with some Compression issues now with the audio over HDMI to the TV. The audio seems to clip the voice when there are any other loud sounds in the programming content such as incidental music in a specific scene, gun fire, explosions etc. It almost sounds like the voice is being sucked out. Something like the old trick of tying your speakers out of phase to suck out the vocals. I find that I have to turn up the sound quite a bit now to hear the voices. As soon as there is only dialog the voices are fine. Yep, I'm getting old, but my hearing is not that bad yet.
I tried everything I could think of via KODI audio settings and I even have tried some PulseAudio and Alsa settings with no change with the issue.
I is a Broadcast Engineer and usually can fix any hardware with a good hammer, screwdriver and the occasional propane torch. Puns and grammar intended I can get lost pretty easy with most software issues.
Any help in this situation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
G
I ran my HTPC (Ubuntu 14.x KODI with nightly updates) HDMI directly to my Vizio TV bypassing the Onkyo until I get around to operating on it.
Up until the release of Kodi 14.x the audio from the TV was fine when watching standard 2 channel stereo programming. After a few nightly updates later, I noticed what sounds like a Phase shift in the audio along with some Compression issues now with the audio over HDMI to the TV. The audio seems to clip the voice when there are any other loud sounds in the programming content such as incidental music in a specific scene, gun fire, explosions etc. It almost sounds like the voice is being sucked out. Something like the old trick of tying your speakers out of phase to suck out the vocals. I find that I have to turn up the sound quite a bit now to hear the voices. As soon as there is only dialog the voices are fine. Yep, I'm getting old, but my hearing is not that bad yet.
I tried everything I could think of via KODI audio settings and I even have tried some PulseAudio and Alsa settings with no change with the issue.
I is a Broadcast Engineer and usually can fix any hardware with a good hammer, screwdriver and the occasional propane torch. Puns and grammar intended I can get lost pretty easy with most software issues.
Any help in this situation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
G