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Hello,
I recently bought a Nvidia Shield TV and installed Kodi 15.2 Insengard on it.
I have problem to play with Kodi internal player video files with DTS audio (not DTS HD). In the audio configuration I enabled passtrough and indicated that my receiver accept Dobly Digital and DTS. Videos files with Dolby Digital are working fine. But when I play DTS files, I have no sound on my receiver. When I disable in audio configuration the DTS receiver capable I have sound with only two channels.
I don't have the same problem with other players in the Nvidia Shield TV. And it was working with my old WD TV Live in the same audio configuration.
Does anybody have already encountered this problem?
Thanks,
Thomas
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It's Sony STR-K740 5.1 Dolby Digital DTS AV Receiver. The Shield is connected to the TV (LG 49UB850 UHD 3D) and I use the optical out to the amp. I'm not at home right now, I will provide a debug log later.
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OP said they have it working on other devices, apparently it is the US model that has the issue due to license etc...
There is a work around for that too according to google results.
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Hiphopopotamus what do you mean by OP ? What model and work around are you speaking about ?
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OP = The person who started the thread
If that´s really the case, and everything works fine with the WD TV and you see DTS in your Receiver (and not something like "Multichannel" or anything related) and as you are the second person who encountered this issue, I would
1. join the other thread, and report your issue there, too
2. maybe open a proper bug report at trac.kodi.tv with all the logfiles which are needed
Normally, and that is how I understand "passthrough", the signal shouldn´t be touched in any way. So it should be the same, either if it comes from your WD or from a Kodi device on whatever platform. Passthrough means to me as untouched signal from one device to another. So if your amp really shows "DTS" on its display it should show it as well as for a Kodi device.
Maybe a dev could get some light in this.
Greetings
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Just wanted to add to this that I'm also having problems playing Dolby/DTS via Kodi on an Nvidia ShieldTV.
Have been using 15.2 and if enabled, audio passthrough produces nothing but very loud static noise on my receiver (Denon AVR-X2200W) but does work fine with the Netflix app.
I've tried a mix of files covering regular Dolby, DTS, DTS:MA, and Dolby Atmos. All supported by the receiver but just not able to get the stream out of Kodi. If I run Netflix, the AVR auto switches to 'Dolby Surround' but when playing anything via Kodi it shows "Multi in" (PCM) at the menus and then either stays at that or swaps to "Stereo" when playing any Dolby/DTS file.
I've also tried installing the latest Jarvis nightly (as of yesterday) and there's still no improvement. I can enable the settings for software decoding and that will send a multi channel PCM to the receiver but if passthrough is enabled then it's still only static I get.
Is this something I'll just have to wait for it to be fixed by the devs or if anyone has any suggestions for anything else I can try to get it working it would be much appreciated.
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Hi David
Thanks for responding, apologies re #1, I'm used to forums where it's frowned upon for starting multiple threads on same topic.
I guess that confirms my thoughts then that it's currently nothing I can fix and I'll just have to wait for later versions of Kodi and settle for PCM for now.
Cheers!
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Hi David,
I didn't have enough time this morning to collect debug logs. I will do it tonight. But I have done some tests to confirm the behavior I have.
So I confirm when I use the google video player in my Nvidia Shield TV or my WD TV, my receiver shows a DTS signal.
I have tested the configuration proposed (select AC3 transcoding, disable DTS capable receiver and set Kodi speakerlayout to 2.0) and it works. The audio goes to Dolby Digital in my receiver.
To respond at previous post of Hiphopopotamus, when I was testing DTS passthrough I had selected 2 channels in the Kodi audio configuration.
Thanks