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It has been disabled for live TV because it was causing issues. Are you using HDMI to connect to your reciever? If so you should still be getting surround sound.
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Good to know it's not a config issue, thanks.
My media center is connected to my AVR using HDMI. But pulse audio is configured for 2.0 Stereo sound for passthrough audio working. So there is no surround sound for non-passthrough audio.
Any plans for re-implementing it in the final release? Used it for years without any issues. (as far as i can say)
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Can you not configure Pulseaudio to use six channels?
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PS I don't think passthrough in LiveTV is coming back, as it causes problems.
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Pulseaudio sucks, that's the problem. The Kodi integration works just fine.
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Without passthrough, you can still have 5.1 audio, PCM over HDMI should work fine.
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How do you enable it then
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2016-10-31, 11:33
(This post was last modified: 2016-10-31, 11:38 by Eldarik.)
If you forward PCM over HDMI, no DA is involved afaik. PCM is still digital.
Nevertheless, sound quality is much higher, when the signal is decoded by the AC receiver instead of the OS.
Don't know if it's some codec licensing issue or different sound enhancing features of the AV receiver, which obviously only work when decoding compressed signals.
As i've never had issues with passthrough audio from live tv within the last 5 years, i will definitely be missing this feature.
Ok, there might be timing issues with passthrough and live streams. This might be a real problem on web-streams. But why remove this feature entirely, so user does not have a chance to use it, even on DVB-Networks?
And please add a comment about it to the Kodi 17 Changelog's PVR section, so users can know about this degradation before updating.
? Not really, or? Never had problems with it.
