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2017-06-08, 14:52
(This post was last modified: 2017-06-08, 14:53 by ameic.)
Also a question jjd-uk might be able to help with.. does atmos media show as ATMOS or TrueHD in Kodi, I understand they are the same format but with extensions, but it would be handy to know from the movie list if it's atmos or TrueHD. My atmos shows are showing as TrueHD currently.
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2017-06-08, 16:16
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As far as Kodi is concerned it's a TrueHD stream, so a standard Kodi install running the default skin (Estuary) will not identify the audio tracks as Atmos, we have no way we can differentiate between a normal TrueHD stream and a Atmos stream.
However some skins can take keywords from the filenames to add media flags, however I don't know if any currently do this for Atmos audio, if you don't use Estuary then ask the dev of whatever skin you are using. To be clear it's possible for a skin to read the filename, for example Movie Name (Year).ATMOS.mkv see ATMOS is contained and use that to trigger a Atmos media flag within the skin. Estuary does not do this is it's viewed as a unreliable workaround of the type we will not permit in the default skin.
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Estuary MOD was supposed to do this. But adding the .atmos or _atmos to the filename stopped the files being picked up by the movie scrapper and I had to ditch the idea. If it helps, My Onkyo just displayed TrueHD until I actually connected and setup the Atmos speakers.
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If you've any questions regarding regex after looking at that then I'm not your man as that stuff is all gobbledygook to me.
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For the kids watching at home that have this issue I finally figured it out, On the Denon amp if you click "Info" on the remote it will say Signal - TrueHD and Sound - TrueHD even if you are playing an ATMOS track.. UNLESS you press the green "MOVIE" button on the remote and select the ATMOS/SURROUND option.
The problem is when this is selected it will play everything in ATMOS, so I assume I would need to change that option every time i change between TrueHD and ATMOS files.. seems a bit weird.