2024-02-27, 23:41
Hi, can somebody please help?
I am running Kodi 20.3 on a Nokia 8010 ATV box, connected via HDMI to Onkyo TX-NR696 7.2 AVR, currently in a 3.2 speaker config. I use passthrough (RAW), there was no audio at all with the IEC one. When playing videos with DD sound, I am getting massive audio delays (ca. 4 seconds and more) when starting playback and after (un)pausing it. In the latter case quite often the sound won't come back at all. The issue seems to be with the audio switching from DD to PCM 2.0 whenever the content isn't playing. This is not happening with DTS sources, only DD.
After experimenting with all possible setting combinations, what seems to have helped somewhat is setting number of channels to 7.1 and enabling stereo upmix. Strange, I know, these settings should be ignored with pasthrough.
Now, the delay on start is approx. 1 second rather than 4, and the audio remains in DD rather than going into PCM when paused, at least as per the icons on AVR display - input audio OSD info shows nothing, not even PCM. After unpause, after ca. 1 second the sound starts (again rather than 4 before) then however it becomes unstable. With 5.1 sources it usually only breaks once or twice again for a fraction of a second, then all is good. With 2.0 sources it breaks more times, quite often not resuming normally at all. During these breaks again the AVR OSD is showing no audio input.
Anyway, my question, any tips for getting rid of this annoying behaviour completely, please? Is there a reason why the DD passthrough doesn't simply stay engaged when paused, same as DTS does?
When I play the same videos using say VLC (outside Kodi) this change from DD to PCM happens as well, but sound always resumes within less than a second w/o further issues.
Thanks, TG.
I am running Kodi 20.3 on a Nokia 8010 ATV box, connected via HDMI to Onkyo TX-NR696 7.2 AVR, currently in a 3.2 speaker config. I use passthrough (RAW), there was no audio at all with the IEC one. When playing videos with DD sound, I am getting massive audio delays (ca. 4 seconds and more) when starting playback and after (un)pausing it. In the latter case quite often the sound won't come back at all. The issue seems to be with the audio switching from DD to PCM 2.0 whenever the content isn't playing. This is not happening with DTS sources, only DD.
After experimenting with all possible setting combinations, what seems to have helped somewhat is setting number of channels to 7.1 and enabling stereo upmix. Strange, I know, these settings should be ignored with pasthrough.
Now, the delay on start is approx. 1 second rather than 4, and the audio remains in DD rather than going into PCM when paused, at least as per the icons on AVR display - input audio OSD info shows nothing, not even PCM. After unpause, after ca. 1 second the sound starts (again rather than 4 before) then however it becomes unstable. With 5.1 sources it usually only breaks once or twice again for a fraction of a second, then all is good. With 2.0 sources it breaks more times, quite often not resuming normally at all. During these breaks again the AVR OSD is showing no audio input.
Anyway, my question, any tips for getting rid of this annoying behaviour completely, please? Is there a reason why the DD passthrough doesn't simply stay engaged when paused, same as DTS does?
When I play the same videos using say VLC (outside Kodi) this change from DD to PCM happens as well, but sound always resumes within less than a second w/o further issues.
Thanks, TG.
