When I got my Vero a few months ago (with Kodi 14.2 installed), audio passthrough worked perfectly. I could select any audio stream available, both “standard” (DTS, Dolby) and “hi res” (DTS-HD, TrueHD) and the Vero would simply pass it through to my receiver, which would detect any format flawlessly and play it. Since a few weeks, after a few updates this doesn’t work any more. I’m now running the August update, but that didn’t solve the problem either.
If I enable “passthrough”, I get no sound at all. The receiver detects nothing. However, if I deselect “passthrough”, my receiver detects “multi-ch 5.1” and plays it well. But as a consequence I can no longer select the audio stream. This “multi-ch 5.1” is a clever feature for receivers that are less capable than mine, but obviously this is not what I want. Any suggestions on what causes this behaviour and how it can be solved?
I solved it myself. Turns out that in the audio section the preference for HDMI or SPDIF was automagically switched to SPDIF. Since I’m only using HDMI, it makes sense that sound was gone. And I was in fact lucky I could get sound using Kodi’s clever transcoding feature. Anyway, I changed the setting to HDMI and now everything is runs perfectly again.
By the way, yes, I do hear differences in quality when comparing “multi-ch 5.1”, Dolby, DTS, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. I guess it depends on your ears, your equipment, your ability to hear very fine details, and you eagerness to listen closely. Many people just don’t care, which is fine, too.
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