2020-09-14, 08:08
I've got an LG C9 OLED TV, an Nvidia Shield Pro 2019, and a Vizio SB3651-E6 soundbar with 5.1 surround sound.
The Shield is plugged into one of the TV's HDMI ports, and the soundbar is attached to a different HDMI port that supports ARC.
Whenever I play a video with 5.1 sound, it works great and I get the proper surround sound (Vizio's app shows it as "DTS 5.1" or "AC3 5.1" or similar). However, if I play a video that only has 7.1 sound, only 2 channels play, and Vizio's app shows it as "CDDA, 2.0". This sounds quite bad as the center channel is missing.
How do I get Kodi to transcode the 7.1 audio to 5.1 rather than the sound bar just treating it as 2.0?
What I've tried so far:
Thanks!
The Shield is plugged into one of the TV's HDMI ports, and the soundbar is attached to a different HDMI port that supports ARC.
Whenever I play a video with 5.1 sound, it works great and I get the proper surround sound (Vizio's app shows it as "DTS 5.1" or "AC3 5.1" or similar). However, if I play a video that only has 7.1 sound, only 2 channels play, and Vizio's app shows it as "CDDA, 2.0". This sounds quite bad as the center channel is missing.
How do I get Kodi to transcode the 7.1 audio to 5.1 rather than the sound bar just treating it as 2.0?
What I've tried so far:
- Number of channels is set to 5.1 in Kodi.
- I've tried disabling the DTS-HD and TrueHD passthrough options in the Nvidia Shield options.
- I've tried toggling the "passthrough" option in Kodi on and off
Thanks!