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Is there anyway to check on the AVR the number of channels received? sometimes there's a gui info display or failing that on the front panel display of the AVR there's a speaker layout display.
You can't rely on the OSD because ffmpeg is used to provide that info, however it can only do that for formats it can decode, since it can't decode the full DTS-HD it only sees the DTS 5.1 core. Note that this is a GUI reporting issue only and has no effect on passing through the full DTS-HD 7.1 where decoding is done on the AVR. TrueHD reports as 7.1 because ffmpeg does have a decoder for this format.
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Yep if AVR is reporting DTS-HD and not plain DTS you should be getting the 7.1 as we do nothing to the channels in passthrough mode.
What AVR is it you've got? I'd be surprised if there's no way to check just for sanity purposes.
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when i airplay the video is gray help?
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Can someone shed some light on what I am seeing with my setup:
So I have XMBC running on my Windows 8 laptop which is connected to my Onkyo TX-SR605 by HDMI and from the AVR to my LG 65" by HDMI. When I stream a 1080p movie that has DTS-HD 5.1 audio my Onkyo display will show it as "Multich" with a "PCM" being lighted up at the top. When I hit my display button for the AVR and cycle thru the info it shows it as being 5.1 with 48Khz audio. When I watch a movie in 720p that has Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3 5.1) my AVR will show it as "Dolby D" with red Dolby Digital symbol lighting up above it and again cycling through the display it too will show it as 5.1. This is typically what I see when I'm watching my local HD channels, movies and shows on cable channels that are HD, etc.
So from this behavior should I infer that for DD 5.1 the audio is being bitstreamed and handled on the AVR end of it while DTS-HD or even True-HD will not be encoded on the AVR end, but on the XMBC side (or blu-ray player) and sent over as PCM 5.1? Just wondering why my AVR does not show it as DTS-HD on the display (similar to showing it for AC3 5.1) instead of showing it as Multich/PCM?
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Move further down the Audio settings and make sure both DTS-HD and TrueHD capable are checked.
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I have an ATI HD5xxx card. I just installed Windows 8 on my PC and I am trying to get my audio to work with WASAPI. No matter what I do I can only get this to playback without the video studdering if I select analog audio.
I also do not see and driver for ATI HDMI OUTPUT like I see in everyone's setup. Mine just shows WASAPI HDMI DIGITAL AUDIO. I have the newest drivers installed from ATI. I tried searching though everything, but I got a bit lost.
Can someone please help me out?
Thanks.
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just a quick note, I was having tons of issues with stuttering last year and tried everything to fix it internally, but nothing worked. I ended up indcreasing my RAM from 4G to 8G, installing windows 8.1, and voila! all is well. Not sure which one was the issue ( i assume ram) but either way XBMC worked perfectly after that
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Hi.
I also have problems. Can't get dts hd sound to work, i have download the file from #1post and changed but it won't work. I have the following products
Intel i5 4670K (Intel4600 graphic)
Gigabyte sniper g1 m5 motherboard
LG PS 8000 (TV)
Marantz sr 5004
windows 8.1
lates stable xbmc
latest drivers and new installation of windows (No old drivers)
Hdmi cable 1,3
any idea what i missed?
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Xfish
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Hey guys,
Can't find the analog setting in Gotham
Im using a E45m1-deluxe with the amd apu e450 with AMD HDMI that i use for audio.
I have looked everywhere and the analogue setting is simply missing in the new version...