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I wonder if I'm alone in this situation. I don't have a fancy av-amplifier. I have a nice 2.0 analog amplifier that I use for music. I have a TV that is by now just a monitor for XBMC. I generally watch video on the TV with sound from the TV. Very rarely do I want to play the audio from the video over my speakers. However, I don't like playing music through the TV, as the speakers in it just aren't very good for that.
I would love to be able to have a separate audio output device for music (i.e. audio without accompanying video) and video. That way I can use XBMC easily to play my music as well as watch video sources without changing the audio output device all the time. (which is to tedious, so I never actually do it)
I'm just not sure how much work would be involved with making the option available. Anyone else interested in this?
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I have the exact same setup
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how does the sound get to the TV? HDMI, optical, analog?
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I can't speak for others, but in my case, I've got a Mac mini, where I combine optical audio out with dvi to get hdmi to my tv. The audio is going through an external usb audio card to my amplifier. (Analog output)
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As I said - I'm non of our devs. I only know they didn't like the dual-audio stuff much. One reason was ofc that AE was on it's way and it didn't make sense to alter the old audio engine at this stage. But IIRC there also where other concerns (syncing the two audio sinks or whatever). Unfortunately it's also nothing that could be achived using addons - just asked a dev.
I guess the feature of AE to have a different audio output for passthru and regular audio also doesn't help in your case, because 2.0 AC3 would still use passthru. But IIRC DDDamian wanted to have a look to not use passthru for this kind of audio (at least via advanced settings or so).
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One solution might be just making it something you can switch on a remote control, so that it's at least easier to select on-the-fly.
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I understand why we wouldn't want to have dual audio, however having a different device for different media makes sense.
The specific use case is that I need to pipe video audio to the TV via HDMI to avoid any audio lag (seems to happen with most HDTVs), but wouldn't want to do this via the TV for music alone. So instead of dual audio we would need two very distinct audio outputs for everything that is video and everything that isn't. There would be no syncing issues here, as only one audio would be active at a time.
I read in the AudioEngine thread that this will not be covered (page 15), but couldn't find out why.
Can somebody ask the responsible dev if such a feature would be considered?