2019-03-21, 00:40
It came up in this thread that one can use a .conf file rather than patching Kodi's source to get the HiFiBerry Digi card to work with Kodi and to use the passthrough option. Doing this doesn't completely work to both enable the hardware and allow for passthrough.
The following comes from this issue wherein Kodi 18.1 on Arch ARM with the HiFiBerry Digi seems to partially work. The goal is not patch Kodi's source yet enable this hardware and its passthrough feature. Suggestions are welcomed.
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@rascas
The following comes from this issue wherein Kodi 18.1 on Arch ARM with the HiFiBerry Digi seems to partially work. The goal is not patch Kodi's source yet enable this hardware and its passthrough feature. Suggestions are welcomed.
@HiassofT
@rascas
nornic Wrote:I had to use RPi-WM8804.conf which was mentioned in comment #4. File name is important, which caught me by surprise.
Once I downgraded to 18.0-1, added RPi-... file and rebooted, I could finally select the passthrough mode in Kodi settings. Wasn't grayed out anymore. So success...
However, even when this passthrough is setup to hifiberry-digi, my amplifier only picks up PCM signal.
To prove I'm not going mental, removed the conf file, upgraded back to 18.1-2 and reboot. Any movie I switched on, had the passthrough working correctly. I got DolbyD and DTS audio.
Perhaps there's something else I am missing here... Don't know much about configuring the alsa cards via those conf files...
Any suggestions?