Simultaneous multichannel pass-through on HDMI and 2.0 on SPDIF

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Hi,

I’ve just received my unit and so far so good except this question I haven’t found an answer for.
Is it possible to have the raw multichannel audio track output to HDMI while having a 2.0 encode sent to SPDIF for e.g. 2.0 speakers?
So far I couldn’t find a way to have both without switching settings.

Kind regards.

2

Have you tried it? You should get FL and FR from SPDIF when playing multi-channel PCM. But you will lose FC so won’t get speech if you set the channel layout to one with a front centre channel.

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Yes, that’s what I mean, I have to set a 7.1 layout to get proper multichannel on HDMI but then although I get sound on SPDIF I don’t get speech.
What I’m looking for is multichannel on HDMI and that properly downmixed to stereo on SPDIF.
Is that doable?

5

Not trivially, given Kodi’s AudioEngine architecture, unfortunately.

Do you need both at the same time?
Otherwise you could try and develop a remote shortcut to toggle the audio settings depending on the scenario.

Sam

6

I see. I don’t need both at the same time, but I do that switch quite often, so it’s a little bit of a struggle.
But, apparently, this answers exactly my need! Audio Profiles - Easy switch between different audio settings
Thanks for the help.