2020-12-14, 00:20
Hi there,
I've recently setup my new environment:
The goal is to passthrough the sound stream to the AVR without any processing by Kodi. Everything works except LiveTV. In detail:
Passthrough in general works: Native Netflix, playing movies via Kodi, playing recordings from LiveTV give me the correct sound stream. Only LiveTV fails to passthrough the sound to the AVR. So I can definitely exclude as source of errors:
To exclude also TVHeadend as the bad boy I re-activated my previous VDR installation and get the same problem there. LiveTV gives me PCM Multichannel instead of Dolby Digital.
On my previous environment (Linux HTPC with Kodi 16, AVR SR5005 connected by optical cable) the AVR received the DD signal. So basically LiveTV with DD passthrough has to work.
What did I miss? On which point the LiveTV DD stream is getting lost and being processed by Kodi to Multichannel PCM?
I've recently setup my new environment:
- TV Headend 4.3 (Debian) on a Helios 64
- TV Card is an Octopus Net
- Kodi 18 on a Nvidia Shield TV Pro 2019 connected via HDMI to …
- AVR Marantz SR5015
The goal is to passthrough the sound stream to the AVR without any processing by Kodi. Everything works except LiveTV. In detail:
- Netflix Android Native App: works (DD, Dolby Atmos)
- Kodi playing movies with AC3, DTS: works
- Kodi LiveTV playing AC3 (shown in Channel settings: Audio Track - 5.1/AC3) gives me: PCM Multi Channel In
- Kodi LiveTV recording the same channel, stopping LiveTV and play the recording: Dolby Audio - DD + DSur
Passthrough in general works: Native Netflix, playing movies via Kodi, playing recordings from LiveTV give me the correct sound stream. Only LiveTV fails to passthrough the sound to the AVR. So I can definitely exclude as source of errors:
- Android settings
- Kodi: System settings -> Display + Audio (allow passthrough is set, number of channels: 5.1, output configuration: best match)
- Kodi: Playback -> Videos
To exclude also TVHeadend as the bad boy I re-activated my previous VDR installation and get the same problem there. LiveTV gives me PCM Multichannel instead of Dolby Digital.
On my previous environment (Linux HTPC with Kodi 16, AVR SR5005 connected by optical cable) the AVR received the DD signal. So basically LiveTV with DD passthrough has to work.
What did I miss? On which point the LiveTV DD stream is getting lost and being processed by Kodi to Multichannel PCM?