Hi,
I've been a supporter of XBMC for years and its always been the very best media centre software.
High prise to all the developers for such a fine piece of work.
However, since the introduction of Frodo i now experience audio problems when playing back any media file that has a digital soundtrack, DD, DTS, AAC ... etc
I have tried all versions of Frodo .0/.1/.2 but always the same problem.
My Mac is connected to my AV amp via optical TOS link. when i playback DTS or DD audio all i get is loud white noise, AAC is totally silent.
Both OSX and XBMC are set to use Optical Out, my amp is a Dennon AVR 1909 with 5.1 speaker setup.
In previous versions of XBMC everything has worked great with excellent audio. But now i just can not get any surround sound.
I have read on the forum of audio issues in XBMC running on OSX but am not clear if these are the same issues
I have tried the lastest nightly build with no success, by turning off the two digital amp capable settings in system/audio/playback i can get stereo sound ok but
that is not what i bought a £1000 AV system for.
Does any one have any tips ?
I thought that Digital soundtracks such as DD (Dolby Digital) and DTS are sent un-touched to the amp for decoding so i dont really understand why these dont work anymore
I believe that AAC has to be processed by XBMC but some sort of apple issue stops it from working ?
One final observation, with the latest nightly build, the option for selecting digital sound capable amps has vanished from the audio playback settings, is this normal ?
I would appreciate any help or at least a definitive answer that XBMC is currently broken with regards to digital surround playback.
Perhaps a sticky stating this is in order.
I am running OSX Lion 10.7.5, i can not update to Mountain Lion because Apple dropped support for Intel Core Duo CPU's with the introduction of 10.8.x
Cheers
Jay
I've been a supporter of XBMC for years and its always been the very best media centre software.
High prise to all the developers for such a fine piece of work.
However, since the introduction of Frodo i now experience audio problems when playing back any media file that has a digital soundtrack, DD, DTS, AAC ... etc
I have tried all versions of Frodo .0/.1/.2 but always the same problem.
My Mac is connected to my AV amp via optical TOS link. when i playback DTS or DD audio all i get is loud white noise, AAC is totally silent.
Both OSX and XBMC are set to use Optical Out, my amp is a Dennon AVR 1909 with 5.1 speaker setup.
In previous versions of XBMC everything has worked great with excellent audio. But now i just can not get any surround sound.
I have read on the forum of audio issues in XBMC running on OSX but am not clear if these are the same issues
I have tried the lastest nightly build with no success, by turning off the two digital amp capable settings in system/audio/playback i can get stereo sound ok but
that is not what i bought a £1000 AV system for.
Does any one have any tips ?
I thought that Digital soundtracks such as DD (Dolby Digital) and DTS are sent un-touched to the amp for decoding so i dont really understand why these dont work anymore
I believe that AAC has to be processed by XBMC but some sort of apple issue stops it from working ?
One final observation, with the latest nightly build, the option for selecting digital sound capable amps has vanished from the audio playback settings, is this normal ?
I would appreciate any help or at least a definitive answer that XBMC is currently broken with regards to digital surround playback.
Perhaps a sticky stating this is in order.
I am running OSX Lion 10.7.5, i can not update to Mountain Lion because Apple dropped support for Intel Core Duo CPU's with the introduction of 10.8.x
Cheers
Jay