2018-02-04, 22:19
Hi Guys!
Please don't kill me! I have a question/problem and I would like to ask for your professional opinion/help. I am a newby in the world of audio (at least in the world of more than 2 speakers). I just bought an equipment what is a good entry level setup according to some people (although I spent all my money on it
). It is connected to my 10 years old little zotac pc via HDMI, and everything is fine, it sounds amazing (even with atmos + 5.1dd+, or DTS-HD MA), but it seems I can't get truehd 7.1 via passthrough to work. It is shown as 2.0 PCM on the receiver in signal info. To be honest, i'm not sure if it even should work 
This is why I need your opinion on this matter.
my setup is the following:
the receiver is a Yamaha RX-V583 https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio_vi...oduct-tabs
(accoriding to the specification, truehd capable)
the speakers are Klipsch Reference series in 5.1.2 setup (1 center, 2 front, 2 surround, 1 sub and 2 upfiring dolby atmos)
the PC is a zotac id-72plus https://www.cnet.com/products/zotac-inte...lus/specs/
(integrated intel hd2000 graphics, and Integrated intel sound card, both should be okay, but I'm not sure on this one... HDMI should be 1.4)
The OS is gentoo linux (uname -a: Linux zotac 4.14.15-gentoo #6 SMP Sat Feb 3 12:39:10 CET 2018 x86_64 Intel® Core™ i3-2100T CPU @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux)
Kodi: media-tv/kodi-17.3-r1 (i know, it is not the latest, but I tried to downgrade because "maybe it helps", but didn't...)
The HDMI cable I use is not the newest 10K capable one, but I think this one also has networking capabilites,so I'd say it should be fine...
I use pulseaudio.
The symptoms: If i start kodi, and go to system/audio preferences, I can set passthrough options, but there is no "truehd capable receiver" option (the last one is "dts capable receiver"). If i start the playback of a clip with 7.1 truehd audio stream, the receiver shows PCM format, 2.0 channel, 48Khz.
Funny thing is, that I don't even know if it should work... In my opinion, even if I have a 5.1.2 setup, the receiver should downmix it, or only play 6 channels (plus the atmos) instead of 8 channels, but it should not get only 2 channels. So my guess would be something is wrong on OS level, or kodi doesn't detect something as it should. OR i'm a complete idiot, and you can laugh at me, and tell me to buy a new PC or go and get 2 more speakers
Here is a debug log of starting Kodi, playing a file first with 5.1DD+ and then trying to switch the audio stream to the 7.1TrueHD.
https://pastebin.com/k51Dvm0v
This is the mediainfo of the file I played:
https://pastebin.com/NKVKDatC
Here is my dmesg:
https://pastebin.com/1p8E19ZB
I have tried a lot of stuff... Kodi up/downgrade, kernel options, codecs, other files, I searched a lot, found a lot, but nothing worked. This is why I turn to you Guys and I would like to ask your for help, to at least know if I'm an idiot, or my setup is not correct.
Please let me know if you need more info, I'll be glad to provide it, if you can help me figure this one out!
Thank you very much in advance!
Please don't kill me! I have a question/problem and I would like to ask for your professional opinion/help. I am a newby in the world of audio (at least in the world of more than 2 speakers). I just bought an equipment what is a good entry level setup according to some people (although I spent all my money on it
). It is connected to my 10 years old little zotac pc via HDMI, and everything is fine, it sounds amazing (even with atmos + 5.1dd+, or DTS-HD MA), but it seems I can't get truehd 7.1 via passthrough to work. It is shown as 2.0 PCM on the receiver in signal info. To be honest, i'm not sure if it even should work This is why I need your opinion on this matter.my setup is the following:
the receiver is a Yamaha RX-V583 https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio_vi...oduct-tabs
(accoriding to the specification, truehd capable)
the speakers are Klipsch Reference series in 5.1.2 setup (1 center, 2 front, 2 surround, 1 sub and 2 upfiring dolby atmos)
the PC is a zotac id-72plus https://www.cnet.com/products/zotac-inte...lus/specs/
(integrated intel hd2000 graphics, and Integrated intel sound card, both should be okay, but I'm not sure on this one... HDMI should be 1.4)
The OS is gentoo linux (uname -a: Linux zotac 4.14.15-gentoo #6 SMP Sat Feb 3 12:39:10 CET 2018 x86_64 Intel® Core™ i3-2100T CPU @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux)
Kodi: media-tv/kodi-17.3-r1 (i know, it is not the latest, but I tried to downgrade because "maybe it helps", but didn't...)
The HDMI cable I use is not the newest 10K capable one, but I think this one also has networking capabilites,so I'd say it should be fine...
I use pulseaudio.
The symptoms: If i start kodi, and go to system/audio preferences, I can set passthrough options, but there is no "truehd capable receiver" option (the last one is "dts capable receiver"). If i start the playback of a clip with 7.1 truehd audio stream, the receiver shows PCM format, 2.0 channel, 48Khz.
Funny thing is, that I don't even know if it should work... In my opinion, even if I have a 5.1.2 setup, the receiver should downmix it, or only play 6 channels (plus the atmos) instead of 8 channels, but it should not get only 2 channels. So my guess would be something is wrong on OS level, or kodi doesn't detect something as it should. OR i'm a complete idiot, and you can laugh at me, and tell me to buy a new PC or go and get 2 more speakers
Here is a debug log of starting Kodi, playing a file first with 5.1DD+ and then trying to switch the audio stream to the 7.1TrueHD.
https://pastebin.com/k51Dvm0v
This is the mediainfo of the file I played:
https://pastebin.com/NKVKDatC
Here is my dmesg:
https://pastebin.com/1p8E19ZB
I have tried a lot of stuff... Kodi up/downgrade, kernel options, codecs, other files, I searched a lot, found a lot, but nothing worked. This is why I turn to you Guys and I would like to ask your for help, to at least know if I'm an idiot, or my setup is not correct.
Please let me know if you need more info, I'll be glad to provide it, if you can help me figure this one out!
Thank you very much in advance!
