Tracks with DTS-MA & Dolby 5.1 are played correctly. I am still stunned.
Isn't DTS-MA high bitrate format? If so, Kodi transcodes it to something which is supported by HW.
Anyway, thanks for further testing. I'm a bit annoyed that GUI sounds doesn't work, but as you said, it might be your amp. I hope someone will provide feedback from testing this on some other amp. I don't think we can do anything more for now. Kernel patches will be submitted for inclusion in 5.17.
GUI Sounds are played when clicking through menu during play back of videos. Without playback, no GUI sounds regardless of setting.
Interesting, your amplifier supports PCM audio too, so it should play GUI sounds nevertheless. Can you try System>Settings>Audio>Audio decoder>Keep audio device alive>Always? Please also this image if it changes anything: http://jernej.libreelec.tv/test/spdif/
AAC 5.1 tracks are detected and played back as 2.0. I do not know if this is a limitation from the amplifier.
Amp is SONY STR-DE 485E.
Maybe default max. sampling rate is too low. Manual for your amplifier says it supports 96 kHz max, so following setting may help:
System>Settings>Audio>Audio decoder>Limit sampling rate (kHz)>96.0
FYI, except changes in above test image, all other are already in present in nightly images, so you can use any image from today onward. Sadly, this doesn't qualify for backport to 10.0.
You can't, wifi on TX6 is not yet supported. Patches exist, but I can't tell when they will be integrated.
The GUI sounds works in playback, when setted to "Always".
Which setting is this? "Keep audio device alive"?
Is there anything to fix (except above minor issue)? Would you mind to tell which amplifier your have?
Thanks for report! Not working GUI sounds is problematic, I don't want half baked solutions. Please check following:
1. "Audio ouput device" should be set to SPDIF, one that ends with "S/PDIF"
2. "Passthrough output device" should be set to SPDIF too
3. Check if your AVR is capable of PCM (normal, uncompressed audio) playback over SPDIF. If not, select "Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding"
4. Test playback with samples with AC3 audio track and after that with non-AC3 audio track. Alternate this two samples a couple of times. You should have audio all the time.
BTW, I have some crappy SPDIF to analog decoder, but it seems that it's broken. I get no sound out of it, no matter which source (LE box or TV) and main chip is very hot. I hope you can help me thoroughly test this.
bikike sorry, now it should be better. Update is at same location.
bikike Please test this update: http://jernej.libreelec.tv/test/spdif-pt/
I added things needed for SPDIF passthrough to work correctly.
Notes:
1. enable at least advanced settings mode in order to see audio passthrough settings
2. high bitrate formats are not supported (TrueHD, DTS-HD, ...)
I'm fully aware of that repo, but we stop adding random wifi drivers from random repos. Only wifi drivers supported are those which are already included in kernel source at kernel.org. You can of course build your own image and even link image here, but changes won't be accepted to official LE.
ikarishinji87 Can you confirm that TX6 mini has analog audio output and spdif output? I'm looking into differences between TX6 and TX6 mini. TX6 has only spdif output.
I went through SPDIF core description and I believe I can add support for non-linear PCM a.k.a compressed audio without too much trouble. I'll ping you here when test update will be ready.
bikike can you show me what kind of cable you're using for SPDIF? I can't find anything useful on web shops. Maybe I'm using wrong keywords.
Passthrough should be easy to support here. I just need to figure out how to add control and how to copy content from control to registers. After that, I can make passthrough setting visible again, although HDMI passthrough would still be hit or miss.
5.1 sounds like it supposed to sound.
Are you sure? SPDIF core supports only 2 channels max., so you should get downmixed stereo sound, unless if passthrough stayed enabled from your previous experiments and your AVR detects compressed audio even if metadata tells otherwise.
bikike try now (same link). One driver wasn't enabled. If it works for you, I'll open PR.
Strange. I can reproduce issue on my box but I have no clue why card is not exposed. I'll look into it.
yes the wifi on orange pi plus2 is RTL8189ETV, it is on upstream Linux
Tell me which symbol to enable in config file or show me driver location here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/…t/tree/?h=v5.15
bikike Here is TX6 test update with enabled SPDIF: http://jernej.libreelec.tv/test/tx6-spdif/ Please report if it works. Passthrough shouldn't be that hard to make it work from programming standpoint, but I don't have proper equipment for testing, which complicates situation very much.
chewitt Da Flex H6 SoC has separate SPDIF peripheral and thus Tanix TX6 board has SPDIF connector. However, it's not enabled because I can't test it.
bikike I can prepare test image for TX6 with SPDIF enabled, but it doesn't support passthrough (at least for now). It would be separate effort, this one is about HDMI passhtrough.
