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After upgrading to 10.0 Dharma I am no longer getting correct speaker mapping for any of my files encoded in AAC 5.1 (previously I believe it just down mixed to stereo.) I get some soundtrack and surround noises but no center channel at all. I have been looking all over the forums and have seen a couple references to this but I have not been able to find a solution outside of telling XBMC that I have a stereo setup instead of surround, which is terribly inconvenient. Does anyone know of any way to get these files to play correctly? I am running a current gen mac mini over HDMI to an Onkyo TX-SR608. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Sorry to bump my own post but could really use some help on this one.
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AAC is real time converted to AC3 by dharma so you should use the same settings for passthrough
This definitely work with toslink am not sure about HMDI
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Thanks for the input. Does anyone know what the deal with HDMI is then?
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Set passthrough device to toslink even if you use HDMI and it should work
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Changing to optical didn't do anything. Any other solutions out there? This problem is very annoying.
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Hi, I'm currently suffering similar problems with build 10.0-6 on iOS (Apple TV 2).
I've only come across one file in my library that's posing a problem at the moment. It's an mkv with a 5.1 AAC track on it. XBMC reports the correct format for the file in all it's dialogs but my amp only reports receiving a 2.0 stereo track. The left speaker seems to correctly output front-left but the right speaker seems to be outputting the centre channel. All other speakers are silent. I know the iOS release is still very much a work in progress but I'm having no issues whatsoever with other mkv files with AC3 or DTS tracks.
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Are we still talking about ios (atv2) here? Or does this problem exist on osx too and also is fixable by the same workaround?
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much:
click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi:
NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf):
Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!:
iOS FAQ (wiki)
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2012-06-30, 02:33
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-30, 03:12 by DIEHARDave.)
Windows Nightly Build
EDIT: Actually now it is working with HDMI as the audio device. Don't know if the changing it to Toslink/Coax then back did something to it or not but now its working as expected.
