Audio HE-AAC/SBR

skachr · December 15, 2018 at 6:41 PM

I have just downgraded my Raspberry Pi 3, from OpenElec/Kodi 6.03, to LibreElec/Kodi 8.2.5.

Most things works fine, except for one thing.

DVB-captures in TS-container with H264 video and HE-AAC/SBR audio is now mute. Kodi says there is no audio stream.

Any container, mkv, MP4, or TS, with any other kind of audio, LC-AAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital +, DTS, and the two DTS/Dolby HD audio formats plays fine.

HE-AAC/SBR audio seems to be broken.

Will upgrade to OpenElec until a workable solution is presented.

**smp** · December 15, 2018 at 7:58 PM

Can you upload a small sample?

skachr · December 15, 2018 at 9:15 PM

Will try to cut a sample out of one of the large *.ts files and upload.

Meanwhile: Could be a Kodi issue and not a LibreELEC issue. Tried current Raspbian and put Kodi on top of it with the same negative result.

Going back to Kodi 15.2 on OpenELEC 6.03, kernel 4.1.18, He-aac/SBR works.

skachr · December 17, 2018 at 4:30 PM

Tried to upload a 1.73MB *.ts file zipped into "filename.zip"

Gets the error message:

"An unknown error occurred during the upload.

The maximum number of attachments: 10
Maximum File Size: 2 MB
Allowed extensions: bmp, gif, jpeg, jpg, log, pdf, png, txt, zip"

no matter what I try.

**smp** · December 17, 2018 at 9:27 PM

It should be tested on a current build of Kodi 18. I can check if it works on a current Milhouse LibreELEC 9 build if you upload a sample to Google Drive, Dropbox or something like that. Or you can install the latest Milhouse build (or v8.90.009 ALPHA build) and test yourself.

skachr · December 18, 2018 at 1:22 AM

Tried v8.90.009 with Kodi 18. Same result, no audio, and the Eustary GUI sees an audio stream but says it is unknown.

Excerpt from log:

01:53:30.978 T:1937776656 NOTICE: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: smb://[x]/Disk2/8 mm.ts

01:53:30.980 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Creating InputStream

01:53:31.017 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer

01:53:32.193 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256

01:53:32.193 T:1497334640 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 0. Stream disabled.

01:53:32.193 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Opening stream: 2 source: 256

01:53:32.228 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256

01:53:32.228 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 27

01:53:32.241 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Creating video thread

01:53:32.241 T:1657701232 NOTICE: running thread: video_thread

01:53:32.242 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Closing stream player 3

01:53:32.242 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Opening stream: 2 source: 256

01:53:32.415 T:1497334640 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED

01:54:04.482 T:1937776656 WARNING: CGUIWindowManager - HandleAction - ignoring action 107,

because topmost modal dialog closing animation is running

01:54:06.362 T:1937776656 WARNING: Previous line repeats 19 times.

01:54:06.363 T:1937776656 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()

01:54:06.363 T:1937776656 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit

01:54:06.368 T:1497334640 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()

01:54:06.368 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Closing stream player 2

01:54:06.368 T:1497334640 NOTICE: waiting for video thread to exit

01:54:06.412 T:1657701232 NOTICE: thread end: video_thread

01:54:06.419 T:1497334640 NOTICE: deleting video codec

01:54:06.423 T:1497334640 NOTICE: Closing stream player 3

01:54:06.427 T:1937776656 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

01:54:06.469 T:1937776656 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()

01:54:06.895 T:1937776656 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit

01:54:06.895 T:1937776656 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

**smp** · December 18, 2018 at 1:53 AM

It may be a good idea to open a bug report here. Include all the relevant info, a file sample and a debug log from Kodi 18.

skachr · December 19, 2018 at 1:22 AM

Thanks to sm for the advice.

I have opened a new issue at the github site, follow this:

HE-AAC/SBR audio, stream not supported · Issue #15087 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

**smp** · February 25, 2019 at 9:47 PM

This is now fixed.