Simultaneous Audio Output Over Two or More Output Devices

We will not implement it as an official feature. An unofficial implementation already exists:

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Simultaneous Audio Output

Hi, I developed Dual Audio output support for Kodi (see the post in Kodi forum) and I think LibreELEC is a more practical build for most of the media player hardware. I start a post here mainly for getting support for building more ready-to-use releases for different hardware devices running LibreELEC.

Now I've built Generic/RPi version for testing purpose. I have an Intel NUC so that I can run this for test. I saw some demands that request this feature on other devices, because of limited time…

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November 5, 2022 at 9:15 PM

Quote from RenEH

In my use case it would allow simultaneous output of a spdif pi hat and hdmi audio. Since this has been a patch since 2014, I suspect a lot of users could benefit.

Do you really need to have simultaneous audio? If you want different sound output for different media type, to be able change (automatically and/or manual) the sound output, this could be a perfect solution for you: https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Audio_Profiles

Quote from RenEH

Any chance we can get this feature implemented/merged?

If it gets merged into upstream Kodi we will have the feature. That won't happen though, because it's a hack, albeit a clever one.