2018-04-02, 15:48
Fourth: Kodi -> settings -> system -> audio
My applied settings.
Interaction of sound devices between LAVaudio/DSPlayer and Kodi.
Modern GPU’s have built in codecs which can act like sound devices via HDMI so can be confused with motherboard sound devices or add-on sound cards. GPU codecs are reported to windows as a sound device and as such will be in your windows sound device list.
Having different sound devices can cause confusion as to which one to use. If you are using the onboard motherboard sound device or a high quality add-on sound card to gain higher quality audio for use with such things as headphones then things can get a bit more complicated. I’m not going to cover this in this mini guide.
Kodi -> settings-> system -> DSPlayer -> Audio Renderer (see screen capture in part Three), set this to the ‘sound device’ you want DSPlayer to use with LAVaudio. Mine is set to ‘default’ as this is the default sound device in windows. Due to turning off my motherboard onboard sound device in the BIOS I only have one sound device which is the GPU and as such is the default sound device in windows. Look at your windows sound device list and work out which one is the GPU and set DSPlayer to use that to send HD audio via HDMI to your AVR. Your AVR should now auto switch codecs. If not then you need to set your AVR properly.
The problem, Kodi does not know if LAVaudio is being used in DSPlayer as Kodi does not know about LAVfilters. So you have to tell Kodi not to use HD audio codecs on the HDMI sound device. This is especially true if using WASPI. So we need to turn off WASPI and all HD audio codecs in Kodi then use LAVaudio filter to turn on bitstreaming for the HD audio codec’s for DSPlayer. This will affect the use of videoplayer but lets face it we are not using Kodi-DSPlayer to use videoplayer.
If you don’t turn off HD audio and WASPI in Kodi then things can get rather confusing regarding audio switching and can ‘lock’ audio output as LAVaudio and Kodi have a handshaking battle when you exit DSPlayer after watching a movie.
When the above is set properly you should get no ‘locking’ of HD audio exiting playback from DSPlayer back to the Kodi interface.
Depending on how you have set Kodi -> settings -> system -> audio -> number of channels will default Kodi interface to use them, it matters not how many. I use 2 so not to have sound out all my speakers while browsing Kodi interface. I also used ‘fixed’ for output configuration as it automatically disables WASPI and HD codec’s. This seems to make switching that little bit faster/stable.
My applied settings.
Interaction of sound devices between LAVaudio/DSPlayer and Kodi.
Modern GPU’s have built in codecs which can act like sound devices via HDMI so can be confused with motherboard sound devices or add-on sound cards. GPU codecs are reported to windows as a sound device and as such will be in your windows sound device list.
Having different sound devices can cause confusion as to which one to use. If you are using the onboard motherboard sound device or a high quality add-on sound card to gain higher quality audio for use with such things as headphones then things can get a bit more complicated. I’m not going to cover this in this mini guide.
Kodi -> settings-> system -> DSPlayer -> Audio Renderer (see screen capture in part Three), set this to the ‘sound device’ you want DSPlayer to use with LAVaudio. Mine is set to ‘default’ as this is the default sound device in windows. Due to turning off my motherboard onboard sound device in the BIOS I only have one sound device which is the GPU and as such is the default sound device in windows. Look at your windows sound device list and work out which one is the GPU and set DSPlayer to use that to send HD audio via HDMI to your AVR. Your AVR should now auto switch codecs. If not then you need to set your AVR properly.
The problem, Kodi does not know if LAVaudio is being used in DSPlayer as Kodi does not know about LAVfilters. So you have to tell Kodi not to use HD audio codecs on the HDMI sound device. This is especially true if using WASPI. So we need to turn off WASPI and all HD audio codecs in Kodi then use LAVaudio filter to turn on bitstreaming for the HD audio codec’s for DSPlayer. This will affect the use of videoplayer but lets face it we are not using Kodi-DSPlayer to use videoplayer.
If you don’t turn off HD audio and WASPI in Kodi then things can get rather confusing regarding audio switching and can ‘lock’ audio output as LAVaudio and Kodi have a handshaking battle when you exit DSPlayer after watching a movie.
When the above is set properly you should get no ‘locking’ of HD audio exiting playback from DSPlayer back to the Kodi interface.
Depending on how you have set Kodi -> settings -> system -> audio -> number of channels will default Kodi interface to use them, it matters not how many. I use 2 so not to have sound out all my speakers while browsing Kodi interface. I also used ‘fixed’ for output configuration as it automatically disables WASPI and HD codec’s. This seems to make switching that little bit faster/stable.
