2013-02-27, 05:31
XHBL, welcome to the states and good luck with your job search.
To anyone looking for a hardware solution:
Monoprice also provides a box that might help some, but it doesn't work in 100% of applications. The Monoprice 5369 allows you to input Toslink digital audio and output HDMI (with audio) and Toslink simultaneously.
You would need to setup XBMC to output pass-though Toslink audio and DVI, then the 5369 will combine the Toslink sound with the DVI into HDMI, while still providing another Toslink output. I think this helps some dual-audio users, but obviously not all. I'm not sure how / if the device downsamples any of the newer pass-through audios (Dolby TrueHD, HD Audio, etc). And obviously, if you only have HDMI (and no DVI), this doesn't help.
Hopefully someone will pursue a patch that brings this feature back into XBMC.
Edit: here's an image of the 5369:
To anyone looking for a hardware solution:
Monoprice also provides a box that might help some, but it doesn't work in 100% of applications. The Monoprice 5369 allows you to input Toslink digital audio and output HDMI (with audio) and Toslink simultaneously.
You would need to setup XBMC to output pass-though Toslink audio and DVI, then the 5369 will combine the Toslink sound with the DVI into HDMI, while still providing another Toslink output. I think this helps some dual-audio users, but obviously not all. I'm not sure how / if the device downsamples any of the newer pass-through audios (Dolby TrueHD, HD Audio, etc). And obviously, if you only have HDMI (and no DVI), this doesn't help.
Hopefully someone will pursue a patch that brings this feature back into XBMC.
Edit: here's an image of the 5369: