[ashlar]

Kodi is not yet on newer versions of ffmpeg.  This will, in fact, have to wait until that is done.  There is no firm ETA on that.

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I'm not sure I follow. I am referring to this: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-omega-alpha-1/

Now, granted, ffmpeg 6.0 does *not* include those three commits. They were merged after 6.0 went final. But they were very close, so hopefully importing them to the version of ffmpeg 6 that Kodi is using would not be too hard? As I said, I'm no developer, so I want to stress that "hopefully", as I honestly don't know.

That feature (correct labeling of object-based surround codecs) has been asked many times in the past.

I will open a feature request on the relevant forum. On github it would make no sense... it's not a bug.