2018-01-17, 08:45
Hi all, i have been reading on many places and google searching to find if this is a known issue and there is a work around, and have found a few people describe similar thing but not found a fix that helped me. I may have missed so apologies if i have, did try.
Situation is no matter what settings i seem to change in Kodi (or SPMC for that matter, both experience the issue) when i am playing surround sound, i.e. 5.1, i get regular very short audio cut outs for a second or less. Tends to happen approx every 5mins or so best i can tell. This happens irrespective of whether the 5.1 sound is settings are set with speakers as 2.0 with 5.1 transcoding, or if set as 5.1. In both situations i get the surround sound when passthrough enabled out to the AMP fine, it indicates 5.1 and playback seems OK (though sometimes im not so sure about the audio/video sync) but it will just regularly cut out like a silent blip and you see the indicators on the receiver change just as briefly. It doesn't matter whether i am streaming a 60GB 4K media file or a 1GB media file, if im trying to play 5.1 it happens. If i turn OFF passthrough audio so its just stereo the problem seems to go away. But it seems like a massive waste of $200 spent to get the Shield.. right now its a bit of a paper weight, the chromecast works better.
I have tried changing every setting under the sun i can think of in EXPERT settiings, i have tested all the recommend audio and video settings i have seen on github, but nothing seems to stop it from happening.
My setup is:
Kodi (and SPMC) on nVidia Shield 2017 TV, no add-ons
Hisense 65M7000 65" 4K TV
Yamaha RX-V377 (*not* 4K)
PC with bucketloads of storage and media files which is connected to the nVidia shield via ethernet and accessing via SMB share.
Note: the PC is a newly built AMD 1600 with 16GB 3200mhz ram, ATI RX480, WD REDs, 100mbps net connection, mix of CAT6 and CAT5-E cable (CAT6 into the shield).
I have the shield connected to TV via HDMI (appropriate 4K port), and Optical from the TV into the Receiver. As my receiver is not 4K i'm not connecting the Shield into it. I have CEC disabled in the TV as i dont use those functions (tried it turned on, made no difference).
Also:
Adjust display refresh rate: On start
Sync playback to display: On
Number of Channels: 2.0 (tried as 5.1 also)
Output configuration: Optimized
Allow Passthrough: On
Dolby Digital capable Receiver: On
- Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding: On
If u turn passthrough off my amp says its receiving 2.1ch PCM
I also have a Chromecast HD, PS4, and Cable TV plugged into the TV as well with sound via the optical out to receiver. None of these experience any audio issues whatsoever. Netflix HD from the TV APP is perfect 5.1, likewise the Chromecast HD works fine with videostream and to be frank i'm almost ready to go back to using that but hopefully with assistance will be able troubleshoot and get this working properly..
Please let me know what else and if i need to provide log/debug files and if so any instructions on what you'd like me to do during it. Thank you.
Situation is no matter what settings i seem to change in Kodi (or SPMC for that matter, both experience the issue) when i am playing surround sound, i.e. 5.1, i get regular very short audio cut outs for a second or less. Tends to happen approx every 5mins or so best i can tell. This happens irrespective of whether the 5.1 sound is settings are set with speakers as 2.0 with 5.1 transcoding, or if set as 5.1. In both situations i get the surround sound when passthrough enabled out to the AMP fine, it indicates 5.1 and playback seems OK (though sometimes im not so sure about the audio/video sync) but it will just regularly cut out like a silent blip and you see the indicators on the receiver change just as briefly. It doesn't matter whether i am streaming a 60GB 4K media file or a 1GB media file, if im trying to play 5.1 it happens. If i turn OFF passthrough audio so its just stereo the problem seems to go away. But it seems like a massive waste of $200 spent to get the Shield.. right now its a bit of a paper weight, the chromecast works better.
I have tried changing every setting under the sun i can think of in EXPERT settiings, i have tested all the recommend audio and video settings i have seen on github, but nothing seems to stop it from happening.
My setup is:
Kodi (and SPMC) on nVidia Shield 2017 TV, no add-ons
Hisense 65M7000 65" 4K TV
Yamaha RX-V377 (*not* 4K)
PC with bucketloads of storage and media files which is connected to the nVidia shield via ethernet and accessing via SMB share.
Note: the PC is a newly built AMD 1600 with 16GB 3200mhz ram, ATI RX480, WD REDs, 100mbps net connection, mix of CAT6 and CAT5-E cable (CAT6 into the shield).
I have the shield connected to TV via HDMI (appropriate 4K port), and Optical from the TV into the Receiver. As my receiver is not 4K i'm not connecting the Shield into it. I have CEC disabled in the TV as i dont use those functions (tried it turned on, made no difference).
Also:
Adjust display refresh rate: On start
Sync playback to display: On
Number of Channels: 2.0 (tried as 5.1 also)
Output configuration: Optimized
Allow Passthrough: On
Dolby Digital capable Receiver: On
- Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding: On
If u turn passthrough off my amp says its receiving 2.1ch PCM
I also have a Chromecast HD, PS4, and Cable TV plugged into the TV as well with sound via the optical out to receiver. None of these experience any audio issues whatsoever. Netflix HD from the TV APP is perfect 5.1, likewise the Chromecast HD works fine with videostream and to be frank i'm almost ready to go back to using that but hopefully with assistance will be able troubleshoot and get this working properly..
Please let me know what else and if i need to provide log/debug files and if so any instructions on what you'd like me to do during it. Thank you.