2017-06-18, 13:43
Not wanting to control volume at the Kodi/Android level - would indeed be silly with a passthrough - but talking about HDMI-CEC control of the AVR volume. It works but behaves a bit strange when in passthrough mode. Must be the AVR getting confused by what comes in via ARC.
So If I understand correctly Kodi will transcode and subsequently forward over ARC to the AVR. Transcoding is needed to overcome the problem with 640kb AC3 which the Sony FW doesn't like. Sounds like a strange interpretation of the word passthrough - which normally means "don't touch - just forward"
Anyway - it works as advertised and maybe one day the Sony folk will do a proper implementation. I heard O will come to the new Sony's later in the year - fingers x-ed!
thnx
So If I understand correctly Kodi will transcode and subsequently forward over ARC to the AVR. Transcoding is needed to overcome the problem with 640kb AC3 which the Sony FW doesn't like. Sounds like a strange interpretation of the word passthrough - which normally means "don't touch - just forward"
Anyway - it works as advertised and maybe one day the Sony folk will do a proper implementation. I heard O will come to the new Sony's later in the year - fingers x-ed!
thnx
