2017-03-14, 12:38
(2017-03-14, 10:09)ionutm80 Wrote:(2017-03-13, 02:45)noggin Wrote: I believe it will also allow E-AC3 (aka DD+) 5.1 content to be transcoded to DD 5.1.
(The option appears under DD/AC3 passthrough if you have your audio output configured for 2.0 - unless this option is platform specific?)
Hi and thanks for your reply. With output configured for 2.0, enabled DD/AC3 capable receiver and DD/AC3 transcoding I do get 5.1 AC3 from E-AC3 (DD+) with Kodi which is fantastic. My question was whether ticking the option of DD/AC3 transcoding (which I need for some live TV with DD+) also overrides enabling the DTS pass-through or not. I prefer that everything which is AC3 or DTS to be passed as it is and only E-AC3 (DD+) to be transcoded to plain AC3.
I think if you enable DTS passthrough this will bitstream DTS audio and avoid re-encoding. If you disable DTS passthrough AND have AC3/DD transcode AND 2.0 audio output configured (the DD/AC3 transcode option won't appear otherwise) then you will get DTS decoded and reencoded as DD/AC3.