2013-07-10, 16:53
Hi,
I've been a supporter of XBMC for years and its always been the very best media centre software.
High prise to all the developers for such a fine piece of work.
However, since the introduction of Frodo i now experience audio problems when playing back any media file that has a digital soundtrack, DD, DTS, AAC ... etc
I have tried all versions of Frodo .0/.1/.2 but always the same problem.
My Mac is connected to my AV amp via optical TOS link. when i playback DTS or DD audio all i get is loud white noise, AAC is totally silent.
Both OSX and XBMC are set to use Optical Out, my amp is a Dennon AVR 1909 with 5.1 speaker setup.
In previous versions of XBMC (Eden) everything has worked great with excellent audio. But now i just can not get any surround sound.
I have read on the forum of audio issues in XBMC running on OSX but am not clear if these are the same issues
I have tried the lastest nightly build with no success, by turning off the two digital amp capable settings in system/audio/playback i can get stereo sound ok but
that is not what i bought a £1000 AV system for.
Does any one have any tips ?
I thought that Digital soundtracks such as DD (Dolby Digital) and DTS are sent un-touched to the amp for decoding so i dont really understand why these dont work anymore
I believe that AAC has to be processed by XBMC but some sort of apple issue stops it from working ?
One final observation, with the latest nightly build, the option for selecting digital sound capable amps has vanished from the audio playback settings, is this normal ?
I would appreciate any help or at least a definitive answer that XBMC is currently broken with regards to digital surround playback.
Perhaps a sticky stating this is in order.
I am running OSX Lion 10.7.5, i can not update to Mountain Lion because Apple dropped support for Intel Core Duo CPU's with the introduction of 10.8.x
Cheers
Jay
EDIT: 17:20 - 10th July
I just Installed PLEX OSX Server (and Client.
The Plex Client APP plays all my content with no problems at all.
The configuration screen for audio is almost identical to XBMC, options for DTS & DD capable amp are enabled
All Codec's seem to be processed correctly and uses pass through with DD & DTS soundtracks, AAC plays as Dolby Digital and works great.
Just like XBMC Eden used to.
So i can only asume that the problem lies with XBMC and is a software issue not a hardware one
I personally prefer XBMC for its customisable skins and plug-ins .. etc but for the moment i guess i have to use PLEX
until XBMC is fixed.
Any thoughts ?
I've been a supporter of XBMC for years and its always been the very best media centre software.
High prise to all the developers for such a fine piece of work.
However, since the introduction of Frodo i now experience audio problems when playing back any media file that has a digital soundtrack, DD, DTS, AAC ... etc
I have tried all versions of Frodo .0/.1/.2 but always the same problem.
My Mac is connected to my AV amp via optical TOS link. when i playback DTS or DD audio all i get is loud white noise, AAC is totally silent.
Both OSX and XBMC are set to use Optical Out, my amp is a Dennon AVR 1909 with 5.1 speaker setup.
In previous versions of XBMC (Eden) everything has worked great with excellent audio. But now i just can not get any surround sound.
I have read on the forum of audio issues in XBMC running on OSX but am not clear if these are the same issues
I have tried the lastest nightly build with no success, by turning off the two digital amp capable settings in system/audio/playback i can get stereo sound ok but
that is not what i bought a £1000 AV system for.
Does any one have any tips ?
I thought that Digital soundtracks such as DD (Dolby Digital) and DTS are sent un-touched to the amp for decoding so i dont really understand why these dont work anymore
I believe that AAC has to be processed by XBMC but some sort of apple issue stops it from working ?
One final observation, with the latest nightly build, the option for selecting digital sound capable amps has vanished from the audio playback settings, is this normal ?
I would appreciate any help or at least a definitive answer that XBMC is currently broken with regards to digital surround playback.
Perhaps a sticky stating this is in order.
I am running OSX Lion 10.7.5, i can not update to Mountain Lion because Apple dropped support for Intel Core Duo CPU's with the introduction of 10.8.x
Cheers
Jay
EDIT: 17:20 - 10th July
I just Installed PLEX OSX Server (and Client.
The Plex Client APP plays all my content with no problems at all.
The configuration screen for audio is almost identical to XBMC, options for DTS & DD capable amp are enabled
All Codec's seem to be processed correctly and uses pass through with DD & DTS soundtracks, AAC plays as Dolby Digital and works great.
Just like XBMC Eden used to.
So i can only asume that the problem lies with XBMC and is a software issue not a hardware one
I personally prefer XBMC for its customisable skins and plug-ins .. etc but for the moment i guess i have to use PLEX
until XBMC is fixed.
Any thoughts ?