[mythtv-users] Digital audio Capability grayed out

[James Abernathy]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 6:38 AM Justin Smith <justin at smithpolglase.com>
wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> > > This sounds like an issue similar to one I had recently:
> > >
> > > http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2022-June/409756.html
> > >
> > > I managed to get it working (not because I have any particular insight
> > > into this - more by luck - see the email), but I came to the
> > > conclusion that there is a bug either in MythTV or the kernel/alsa
> > > functionality that reports audio functionality.
>
> > Thank you for replying. I did a lot of searching on the mailing list for
> > Digital Audio Capabilities without finding your issue.
> >
> > I know back with Raspbian OS on the RPI4 I had to create a Mythtv audio
> > device in a file called: $HOME/.asoundrc. This must be what you did with
> > the right parameters.
> >
> > I'll test and report back. In my case Kodi and VLC both worked with Dolby
> > Digital.  Sometimes I see "Multi Channel In" on the display instead of
> > Dolby.  I think this must be content related.
>
> To be clear, I didn't edit $HOME/.asoundrc (or any file for that matter).
> I simply typed in
> "hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0,AES0=0x06,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x00,AES3=0x09"
> in the audio output device field under Settings->Audio in the FrontEnd.
> I got this string from the Kodi log.
>
> After doing this, the "Digital Audio Capabilities" menu item became
> "ungreyed" (i.e. selectable) so I could enable all digital audio formats
> and 7.1 or 5.1. Digital passthrough now worked.
>
> Afterwards, I removed all those AES codes from the audio output device,
> and digital passthrough still worked.
>
> Obviously this AES string is setup dependent but my point is that since you
> use Kodi, you might be able to do the same thing.
>
> Cheers,
> Justin.


 I've looked all over Kodi logs for that string you used.  I could not find
it. Any help locating it would be great.  I'm using Kodi 19.4

Jim A
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