2015-05-05, 20:09
(2015-05-05, 14:55)Milhouse Wrote:(2015-05-05, 14:31)Eklar Wrote: I understand that RPi 2 doesn't support DTS HD-MA and TrueHD bitstreaming due to hardware limitations. But it appears that some OpenELEC test builds decode HD audio streams and can send a 5.1 (and higher?) PCM signal via HDMI.
Yes, it can output 7.1 PCM via HDMI.
If you configure less than 7.1 channels in Kodi then the DTS HD-MA library will downmix the audio to whatever number of channels you have configured. If you configure Kodi with 7.1 channels, then your amp will take care of any downmixing should you have less than 7.1 speakers.
Do you have any sense of what does a better job at downmixing, AVR or KODI?
Regrading DTS-HD bitstreaming, is this a pure hardware limitation or are there any licensing issues also?
