I’m pulling my hair out. Audio is fine hooked up to two different TV’s. Tried in my living room with a Denon x1400 and it sounds like slow motion audio.
This is with passthrough enabled or not. When I switch over to Android I get passthrough working just fine. So it’s not hardware.
I set up Kodi just like I do on my Htpc and Shield, which are both hooked up to this receiver and working fine. Also tried multiple high speed HDMI cords.
It’s been mentioned countless times now that 4.9 kernel doesn’t currently have LPCM (or multichannel PCM) support.
You need to keep channels at 2.0, and for passthrough it’ll work just fine.
If you want to passthrough AAC or FLAC, you’ll have to turn on the AC3 transcoding option in the Passthrough section.
Yeah off the top of my head. The audio device is HDMI, channels set to 2.0. I believe I have the audio setting to “best match”. (can’t remember what this is called.)
But the culprit was the setting “sync to display” which is actually a video setting. I believe its in system->video, if not its under the player setting.
This was causing all sorts or weird sounds (sounded like dinosaurs lol) but turning that off solved it all.
I have a Sony AVR, model STR-DH790 with an N2 running CE 9.0.3. I have sound settings at the default on CE except I enabled passthru for all the audio stream types. Worked out of the box like that with no issues.
I’d be happy to do that for you but I don’t have a 4k TV. I’ve actually upgraded all my home theater equipment with new stuff recently except the TV. It’s a really nice older TV, big and expensive so I’m not anxious to replace it. One thing holding me back is most of my library content is 1080p. Honestly I don’t have really sharp vision, getting up there in age so I can’t really tell the difference anyway. My hearing is still sharp though so I can tell the difference in audio equipment.
Oh I’ll get a new TV at some point, just not tomorrow. That will probably be a new can of worms for me. In any case I’ll get into the HDR business when I get a new one if that’s what makes the difference. Unless I get a really, really big TV I don’t think the resolution will help me much.
Never thought about the resolution of the human eye. The retina does have pixels in a sense. I actually had above average vision in my younger years (better than 20/20), but it’s fallen below that now. Even with glasses I can’t make 20/20 anymore. I can say it really sucks to have super sharp vision most of your life and lose it with age.
Sorry, should have asked first. The LG Chess UHD HDR clip is amazing on a 4k TV. The TV detects the HDR and switches to a special HDR mode (not via my Sony AVR though) and the picture just pops. Looks like an OLED the picture is so incredible. I have it mostly working now with a stock install of 20190913. Still have issues passing this UHD HDR stuff through my AVR though so for now, have the N2 connected direct to TV.
Thanks. Did a lot of research today and discovered that my Sony STR-DN1060 does not support HDR passthrough so there is my problem. One port supports 4k passthrough under HDMI 2.0 but not 2.0a/b with not much hope of a firmware update to fix. So for now, I’ll have to connect my N2 direct to my TV with DTS-HD off and use the ARC for audio back to my AVR. Seems like the best workaround at the mo.