2017-02-23, 13:20
(2017-02-13, 02:58)nickr Wrote: There should be no difference in sound quality, although if the audio coming from your TV broadcaster is EAC3 (ie extended not plain ac3) then another thread tells me there might be problems.
Set speakers on 5.1 (in kodi) if you have 5.1 real speakers.
That's only the case if the AV Receiver is doing a straight 5.1 decode in the same way that Kodi is. If the AVR has processing (dynamic range reduction etc.) that is based on the Dolby metadata then the audio won't be the same in both use cases. With passthrough the AVR receive metadata, with Kodi PCM decode it won't.
It's not a universal requirement - but I can understand the frustration of some in finding that passthrough has gone. Kodi does have to work in far more diverse use cases than consumer PVRs though - so I get the different requirements (particularly when it comes to display frame rates).
One thing that PVR live (and live-paused) viewing presumably has to disable is 'Sync playback to display', as that introduces asynchronous replay potentially?
