2024-01-11, 12:36
(2024-01-11, 12:09)darmach Wrote: With speakers in Kodiu set to 5.0 this option doesn't show at all, probably a bug?
Nope. DD (ac3) is 5.1 channel audio encoded into 2 channels. So is DTS. If you set the No. of channels to more than 2, then Kodi will be decoding any formats your AVR can't and outputting multi-channel audio to your AVR.
(2024-01-11, 12:09)darmach Wrote: I wonder if the transcoded audio is actually a properly encoded all streams (surround)Of course it is.
See https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/System/Audio