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Hi All,
I want to play AAC file using Kodi player through HDMI, my receiver is capable of detecting AAC streams. Can you please tell me the what are the settings
I have to take care of playing AAC file using kodi without decoding it as PCM? Please help me guys on this issue.
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jjd-uk
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There is zero chance your AVR can decode AAC from HDMI as the HDMI standard does not support it, when your AVR states it can decode AAC this will most likely mean receiving files with AAC over DLNA or from USB.
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(This post was last modified: 2017-11-06, 10:00 by nickr.)
Maybe HDMI does support he-aac from 2.0 onwards. Find me an amplifier that does.
What is wrong with PCM anyway? Either Kodi converts to PCM or your amplifier does, what difference do you expect?
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Even if possible you do realise all you would be achieving is moving the point at which the decoding to PCM is done from Kodi to the AVR? and that doing this would make absolutely no difference to the audio quality.
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I suppose some users might want their AVR front panel to show the audio compression codec used rather than a generic "multi-ch in", but agree that AAC doesn't seem to be supported as a bitstream over HDMI in AVRs.
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