Login at Kodi Home

**mrhyde1969** · 2013-09-13, 07:54

Hi,
Up until recently I have been running an old patch of Eden, for reasons of vc-1 digital plus support. But I have just built myself a new htpc and decided to go with the latest nightly. All is fine apart from one thing. I have ripped all of the LOTR end credits sound tracks as multi channel flac and these are no longer working. XBMC just hangs and I have to do a shutdown to get things running again. Is this a know problem or am I missing something here?? Many than

**Memphiz** · 2013-09-13, 11:52

Try switching from DirectSound to WASAPI audio device in system->system->audio and see if one of those works better.

**jjd-uk** · 2013-09-13, 12:05

Please not that it's not a good idea to say latest nightly as the version, please provide the file date and filename, this is particularly important because a new audio core has recently been made the default audio engine. Multichannel LPCM was certainly working last time I tested a couple of weeks ago, but there's been lot's of fixes for the new audio core so something may have inadvertently become broken.

Try with Directsound & WASAPI and provide a debug log for each.

Also if possible try and make a small sample in case it's a problem with how the encode was done.

**fritsch** · (This post was last modified: 2013-09-13, 15:00 by fritsch.)

I think those Lord of the ring flacs are 6.1 in words six dot one channels, which could be the problem here.

Do you have short sample?

and as jjd-uk already said: don't expect any solution if not providing proper Debug Log

**mrhyde1969** · 2013-09-13, 18:42

Hi thanks for your replys. Just to let you know the nightlie I am using is 20130905-fb23d2c-master. I was already using WASAPI Memphiz, but I tried switching to direct sound and got the same crash. Link to log file:-http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=58207. Many thanks

**fritsch** · 2013-09-13, 21:05

Multichannel flac in the sense of 6.1 was in deed broken. We have fixed this with current fernetmenta aefixes branch. It was quite a hard one.

On the way we also added 7, 8 channel flac layout.

Will come to master soon. I will make a jenkins testbuild for you now and link it later on.

**mrhyde1969** · 2013-09-13, 21:32

(2013-09-13, 21:05)fritsch Wrote: Multichannel flac in the sense of 6.1 was in deed broken. We have fixed this with current fernetmenta aefixes branch. It was quite a hard one.

On the way we also added 7, 8 channel flac layout.

Will come to master soon. I will make a jenkins testbuild for you now and link it later on.

That's great to hear.many thanks

**fritsch** · 2013-09-13, 22:29

@mrhyde1969: Please try this one: http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/win3...efixes.exe

**mrhyde1969** · 2013-09-14, 06:53

Will do this weekend. Will let you know how it goes

**mrhyde1969** · 2013-09-14, 12:36

Just checked and all is fine now Smile

.. Many thanks

Dixon Butz · 2013-09-15, 01:43

That above build does not play multichannel DTS FLACs and DTS APEs. Just get static. DTS wave files play fine.

http://pastebin.com/1j0hDN1w

It also plays 2.0 content in mutlichannel in mode which means my receiver gets constant 5.1 input, but only 2.0. channels play. So I can't use PLII Music mode for stereo content. The nightlies after the 7th play that way now too. Is this intentional?

The nightlies up to XBMCSetup-20130906-421a4e8-master.exe 07-Sep-2013 07:38 play DTS FLACs and DTS APE's just fine.
Need samples?

**fritsch** · 2013-09-15, 07:55

@Dixon Butz:

Please read the Testing thread. This is intended behaviour. The "default user mask" is opened by default. If you want the "best matching" sink, you need to specify <audio><audiophile>1</audiophile></audio> in advancedsettings.xml

This will come as a setting when we are done with the Audio Settings rewrite.

Background: When you watch content, e.g. LiveTV that switches between 5.1 pcm (movies) and 2.0 commercials, you loose some ms.

Dixon Butz · 2013-09-15, 14:27

Ok thx. I thought it was just

<audiophile>1</audiophile>

They do play when it is properly set.

**fritsch** · 2013-09-15, 14:29

Code:
<advancedsettings>

<audio>

  <audiophile>1</audiophile>

</audio>

</advancedsettings>