[MAC] AC3 and DTS pass-through help?
#1
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I'm having some trouble getting AC3 and DTS files properly passing through to my receiver. This seemed to not be an issue before, as I was using a Toslink cable. My new receiver does not allow me to use a Toslink + HDMI sound combo like my old one did for sound and this presents a problem.

I purchased the monoprice usb + displayport to hdmi (http://www.monoprice.com/products/produc...1&format=2) adapter to fix this problem, however I'm running into one problem. I cannot get the XBMC to properly pass the correct AC3 and DTS through to the receiver. Here's what I've done so far.

Audo source info: AC3, 5.1 (L R C LFE Ls Rs), 48.000 kHz
Testing with Quicktime 10 first, then XBMC 9.11(release off website)
Settings from website: http://www.cod3r.com/2008/02/the-correct...quicktime/
Audio MIDI Setup: Format 48000.0 Hz and 2ch-16bit on the correct sound device (currently lists as USB Sound device)

Computer i'm using:
MacBook Pro 2.4ghz Intel Core2Duo 4GBram OSX 10.6.2

Attempt 1:
Perian Ver: 1.2 set to Audio outpus Multi-Channel output
Add cod3r.com AC3+DTS passthrough terminal passthrough settings
Quicktime properly plays the AC3 file to my receiver, all channels.
Audio Settings in XBMC Digital (Without AC3 and DTS capable receiver checked)
Play same file in XBMC, and i only get stereo with these settings.

If I check Dolby Digital AC3 and DTS capable receiver, the file plays slowly in XBMC with no sound and no channels show up on my receiver.

Attempt 2:
remove cod3r.com passthrough terminal passthrough settings
Quicktime plays in stereo
Audio Settings in XBMC Digital (Without AC3 and DTS capable receiver checked) - Plays stereo
Check AC3 and DTS Plays file slowly same as above.
Here's a pastebin of this: http://pastebin.com/f680a53d2

That's what I've come up with and I'd really like some help with this. I can only figure out how to get it working on Quicktime and I have many MANY files. I love XBMC and if someone out there has a fix for me that would be great.

I refuse to go back to FrontRow, that's like a step back in time. Blush

If you need more info, just let me know.

I would appreciate anyone's help,

Thanks very much!
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#2
This might not be much help, but by your description you don't have an optical output from the mac merging into your HDMI connection.

Do you have something like this: http://www.monoprice.com/products/produc...1&format=2

MiniDisplayPort + Toslink -> HDMI

The link you posted has Mini DisplayPort + USB -> HDMI. USB won't carry the digital audio as far as I know.

Elconcho
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#3
Thanks eloncho, I'll grab that cable. Another $50 bucks to spend Laugh

I'll let this forum know if it fixes it though, takes a few days to ship.
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#4
Went through all the same steps only my hardware is a brand new mac mini with the same combo optical port that your macbook pro has. I also have a 2.2 intel macbook pro. After getting apple to ship me a 10.5 disk and rolling quicktime back quite a ways on top of everything you did I was still with no passthrough.

Until

I bought an m-audio transit from musicians friend:

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/pro...sku=241211

Downloaded the latest snow leopard driver and viola. All apps recognize usb transit as an output. As much as I dont like m-audio they do have a long history with apple and it works quite well even with suspend.
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#5
eloncho,

I got the toslink + mini display adapter to HDMI converter and then did the pass through settings. All is working well. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
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#6
Awesome, glad it worked out.
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#7
Hi,

I am pretty new to this forum and don't know the rules about bumping old threads, but since this is related to the problem I have I decided to write here.

Here is my setup in a few words:
MacBook Pro 6.2
Displayport to HDMI cable with standard 1.4
Yamaha RX-v771 receiver (can decode dts, dolby pro etc)
Screen is a panasonic viera

my problem is DTS passthrough through hdmi.

I have selected DTS & AC3 capable receiver in xbmc settings, but i am still not getting the dts on the receiver.

The funny thing is that it worked two days ago with the same settings, but now I am just getting the 5.1 track instead of the dts tracks (and yes, i am sure that the videos i tr have dts. even dolby doesn't get passed through).

Mac audio settings usually show only the screen name, so i tried to unplug the screen. Tried with only the receiver (which was recognized correctly) but that didn't help either.

the receiver doesn't have any settings for dts, ac3, dolby btw. once they are streamed to it the receiver automatically switches. So i have to 'force' xbmc to feed the correct audio track.

how do i do that??
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#8
i got the log for more info
had to cut the part after 'stop' to fit everything in

Code:
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20:54:38 T:2957758464 M:320249856   ERROR: WEATHER: Weather download failed!
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20:54:38 T:2958364672 M:301850624 WARNING: FillBuffer: curl failed with code 6
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20:54:49 T:2684630336 M:277307392 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
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20:54:49 T:2959962112 M:275783680  NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86021, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, pass-through
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20:54:49 T:2959429632 M:275423232  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
20:54:49 T:2959962112 M:268431360   ERROR: CCoreAudioDevice::SetMixingSupport: Unable to set MixingSupport to 'Off'. Error = 0x65706f6e (nope)
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#9
I guess no one here had a clue about settings to change in mac to achieve pass through Smile

Turns out that there isn't really a setting that has to be changed.

The receiver is displaying only part of the info and by checking all possible display outputs on the receiver I found out that the receiver is actually getting dts / dolby streams Smile

I have also installed perian (http://perian.org/) which gives you better control over the sound settings in mac, but I am not sure if it changed anything at the end...
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