It will work however if your passthrough device is not part of the device combination. This is a pulseaudio bug, cause the combine sink is not deconstructed fast enough internally while the passthrough opening is always exclusive. If you use the combined sink for normal music you will realize that direct passthrough output for your movies won't be working anymore, too.
#Linux pulseaudio full
(5) Where AVR has full decode capabilities including 7.1 PCM.ĭownside: The dual audio sink will only output decoded audio, you cannot use it to have one slave doing AC3/DTS and the other PCM.
(4) Where AVR has HDMI inputs but can't decode TrueHD or DTS-HD but does support 5.1 Ac3 or DTS. (2) Where AVR only has SPDIF which will support 5.1 AC3 & DTS. NOTICE The following is meant to act as a guide to get you started, thus you may want to adjust things to suit your own particular set of equipment.
#Linux pulseaudio pro
You can stop it doing upmixing (see Known issues), but it will still open all configured channels which makes Dolby Pro Logic II of your AVR not usable.ģ Setting up pavucontrol 3.1 Passthrough Mode As Pulseaudio will always open the number of channels you have configured. Note: Audio decoded to PCM and sent through PulseAudio the audio will not likely be "bit perfect". In the case of video with TrueHD/DTS-HD 7.1 audio this must be decoded by Kodi to Multichannel PCM by disabling passthrough, then Pulseaudio can handle the 7.1 channels of audio. In this mode Kodi must decode all audio formats to PCM for passing onto the PulseAudio, this can have the advantage of improve audio/video sync. Used if you want Multichannel PCM out, in this mode you can configure PulseAudio for up to 7.1 channels. Note: PulseAudio does not currently allow TrueHD or DTS-MA passthrough, this is a PulseAudio limitation and not a limitation of the Kodi implementation, in order to get 7.1 audio Multichannel Mode must be used In order to allow passthrough to work with PulseAudio then it MUST be set to use a 2.0 channel configuration, despite the 2.0 setting this will still allow 5.1 audio from AC3, DTS, and EAC3. Used if you want to passthrough (bitstream) AC3, DTS, and EAC3 to an AVR or other device. PulseAudio can be run in one of two modes these are: PulseAudio will be automatically detected and selected in Kodi when it is running. Our workaround for those users has been to uninstall PulseAudio which completely broke desktop audio.įor XBMC 13 'Gotham' and later (named Kodi since 14 'Helix') we wanted this situation to change, so thanks to the new PulseAudio Sink users now can run a normal Ubuntu desktop. This happened because PulseAudio blocked the device Kodi required, and audio playback only worked reliably when using the virtual Pulse device. In the past users have experienced problems with audio not working within Kodi, because they were running a full-blown Ubuntu desktop environment with PulseAudio installed.