2011-02-01, 08:27
meshuga Wrote:Your setting this on your receiver or the ATV2? I will verify my settings tonight.
Is it 'downmixing' to stereo then and not properly playing out 5.1 ac3 OR dts? Can you verify a DTS file as well?
Also enable debugging and get the xbmc.log file and post it here when its playing broken.
Those are settings on the ATV2 - I list them again so that you can try it:
- Speaker configuration is 2.0
- Audio output is set to optical in XBMC (the real connection is via HDMI, in fact there's no optical cable - doesn't seem to matter to XBMC)
- AC3 Passthrough is enabled
- Not sure if it's important, but my receiver is set to stereo regardless of the input - i don't use a 5.1 configuration.
Note that this gives a solid stereo downmix but seems to be quite demanding for the ATV2's hardware - there is occasional stuttering even while listening to mp3s and browsing through the music collection. Listening to mp3s while leaving the device alone (e.g. main menu) is absolutely fine.
Also when you start a movie with those settings there's a short click/noise that couldn't be reproduced with other settings.
I have to check DTS when I'm back home.
Another Issue: Are you working on a fix for the freeze that occurs when importing a music library that contains m4a files? Right now i can only import a dozen albums before it freezes. By the way: At least library mode works for those albums - I read about disabled library buttons in the music collection - This problem doesn't occur on my device.