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Radsen
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Hi
I've just played a 7.1 Atmos album through Kodi 19.2 on both Windows and Android and on both, the progress bar is jumping while still playing the music normally. I've seen a couple of old threads about this but can't seem to find a solution, although I tried changing Kodi display to 1080p from 2160p and that made no difference.
Can anyone help please? Also, if it says DolbyHD 7.1, is that Atmos - it's not specifically meant to say Atmos is it?
Thanks
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2021-10-14, 22:18
(This post was last modified: 2021-10-14, 22:19 by HomerJau.)
I get same issue here with Atmos playback in Kodi 19.0 and 19.1. (Atmos in MKA files too from memory).
I use a modified version of Aeon Nox Silvo skin to show codec information including ‘Atmos’ based on source folder naming. I suspect Kodi is only displaying the core format (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 for Atmos from Blu-ray).
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Forgot to mention I am using MKA files. I think this issue occurs with .M4A files too.
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I have the same problem with m4a files. I have generated m4a files using Music Media Helper from an mkv file. The m4a contains Dolby Atmos audio. The audio plays correctly in Kodi 19.3 using passthrough as Dolby Atmos audio.
Problems:
- The progress bar jitters.
- Gapless playback does not work. There is a pause of about 1 sec between songs.
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This is Kodi using the audio player, not the video player.
I would like to be able to play individual songs as just music from an album that is mixed in Dolby Atmos, for instance Abbey Road by the Beatles. I rip the bluray to mkv using MakeMKV and then I split the mkv file in individual m4a files using Music Media Helper. I tag the m4a files in MMH. This gives me a list of music files that I can play in Kodi. This is where I see the jittering progress bar.
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Hitcher
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To my eyes it appears to be mixing the actual progress bar and the cache bar data because it does move along but as it's moving it's jumping up and down at the same time.
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jjd-uk
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Don't remember ever seeing this, what exactly is jumping? do you mean the length of the actual bar that gets filled jumps back then forward so the progress bar does not get filled linearly in the forward direction? or do you mean the nib that sits on top to show current position jumps about?
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I noted earlier in this post of this issue. The video posted is the same thing I see too.
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jjd-uk
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Wow that progress bar looks like it's had an overdose of Amphetamines.
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The track timer eventually shows exactly double the actual track duration.
Example track duration: 5:10
GUI incremented time at song completion: 10:20