m2radio Posted February 22 Posted February 22 Hey group. New to forum, but have been lurking for awhile. Running hdmi to everything and also running the fire cube 3rd gen. I have kodi running on both. Set things up on kodi and have the box sending audio through hdmi to my amp (same as the cube). The 4900 will play the dd+ Atmos fine. Truehd however is not passing through (settings are set correct on kodi). My amp reads 2 channel pcm. Is there a setting somewhere to enable pass through? In the audio settings I have set it to manual and turned on all formats. Trying to compare apples to apples to see if I even need the cube. Quote
nbs. Posted February 22 Posted February 22 No settings on the buzz It should be enabled through your amp The buzz does allow passthrough Quote
m2radio Posted February 22 Author Posted February 22 5 minutes ago, nbs. said: No settings on the buzz It should be enabled through your amp The buzz does allow passthrough Hmmm. So you are getting truehd pass through? Are you using kodi? I’m asking because this is such a stump for me. Tonight I’m going to try to switch spots with the cube. Maybe it is a handshake issue or hdmi issue. Quote
m2radio Posted February 22 Author Posted February 22 Well. Switched out cube for buzz. Tried buzz with settings set for both Plex and kodi. Nothing but pcm 2.0 with all my truehd files. Dts and dd+ Atmos both work and switch over on amp, but notta for truehd. Keep all the cables the way they are and switch back to cube and all works. Nearest I can see is it is not letting truehd pass through. Quote
dishuser Posted February 23 Posted February 23 7 hours ago, m2radio said: Well. Switched out cube for buzz. Tried buzz with settings set for both Plex and kodi. Nothing but pcm 2.0 with all my truehd files. Dts and dd+ Atmos both work and switch over on amp, but notta for truehd. Keep all the cables the way they are and switch back to cube and all works. Nearest I can see is it is not letting truehd pass through. maybe bring this up on a kodi support forum Quote
m2radio Posted February 23 Author Posted February 23 12 hours ago, dishuser said: maybe bring this up on a kodi support forum Thanks! I will. Also not working in Plex. That’s why I leading the way I am. Curious, do some have a setup they can share where they are getting truehd with buzz? As mentioned Atmos with DD+ and dts hd is all good. Quote
m2radio Posted February 23 Author Posted February 23 (edited) 7 minutes ago, nbs. said: Buzz are looking into it So awesome to hear! I’ll keep checking back. Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide on my end. Edited February 23 by m2radio 1 Quote
m2radio Posted March 2 Author Posted March 2 7 hours ago, nbs. said: If there was they would post it Ok. Thanks. Just hoping that it gets some attention being an older box and all. I know most discussion centers around iptv, but it does have the juice to run within a home media network. I will be patient and hope Quote
dishuser Posted March 2 Posted March 2 15 minutes ago, m2radio said: Ok. Thanks. Just hoping that it gets some attention being an older box and all. I know most discussion centers around iptv, but it does have the juice to run within a home media network. I will be patient and hope it still gets updates they can only work on so many projects at once 1 Quote
m2radio Posted April 29 Author Posted April 29 So it has been a little and still no update on a fix for Dolby Atmos truehd. Can any light be shared at all? I’m looking at picking up a couple more boxes and I was hoping to go with buzz. Hard to so without an explanation or solution. I enjoy Dolby truehd using Jodi to stream high hd movies with the box. Shield and Amazon fire cube have no issue. Hope some one higher up can chime in. Quote
Emporium Posted April 29 Posted April 29 Pretty sure right now, they are super busy with the launch of the Android 13 devices, with BuzzTV 6. Not a common setup for many people, so hard to even get too many people to test, on different boxes. And Android 9 boxes (as in your 4900) I am sure handle it differently than Android 11 boxes (like the X5, Classic, etc..). Not sure how Android 13 buzz boxes will handle it also, since they are not in public circulation yet. On my classic, since I don't use any surround sound system and it tries to do passthrough, I need to force it to "never use surround sound" (option on Android 11 boxes), otherwise I have some 5.1 encoded streams that hang. Quote
m2radio Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 Thanks for that insight. Yea. I’m particular and wanted something different than a shield. I’m kinda an audio snob. I’m wondering if the other newer boxes are actually passing through truehd as advertised or kinda doing the same thing. Quote
Emporium Posted April 30 Posted April 30 11 hours ago, m2radio said: Thanks for that insight. Yea. I’m particular and wanted something different than a shield. I’m kinda an audio snob. I’m wondering if the other newer boxes are actually passing through truehd as advertised or kinda doing the same thing. They are not in circulation yet, so kind of hard to say at this point. Quote
allaboutbuzz Posted May 7 Posted May 7 On 2/22/2024 at 11:23 AM, m2radio said: Hey group. New to forum, but have been lurking for awhile. Running hdmi to everything and also running the fire cube 3rd gen. I have kodi running on both. Set things up on kodi and have the box sending audio through hdmi to my amp (same as the cube). The 4900 will play the dd+ Atmos fine. Truehd however is not passing through (settings are set correct on kodi). My amp reads 2 channel pcm. Is there a setting somewhere to enable pass through? In the audio settings I have set it to manual and turned on all formats. Trying to compare apples to apples to see if I even need the cube. I apologize for the late response on this We looked into it atmos passthrough works fine.. truehd cant be passed through hdmi, bluray players decode it directly basically for atmos passthrough to work it needs to use EAC3 container. Which is what Disney+ uses for example. 3 Quote
allaboutbuzz Posted May 7 Posted May 7 2 minutes ago, allaboutbuzz said: I apologize for the late response on this We looked into it atmos passthrough works fine.. truehd cant be passed through hdmi, bluray players decode it directly basically for atmos passthrough to work it needs to use EAC3 container. Which is what Disney+ uses for example. To add to this Truehd cant be passthrough, its a bluray format, its decoded on players, some receivers can decode it but it cant be passed through, its a lossless format takes a lot on bandwidth 5 Quote
m2radio Posted May 15 Author Posted May 15 Thank you for the response. The fire cube and shield both pass through truehd. Just for knowledge. I do appreciate the response. Quote
allaboutbuzz Posted May 16 Posted May 16 On 5/14/2024 at 8:33 PM, m2radio said: Thank you for the response. The fire cube and shield both pass through truehd. Just for knowledge. I do appreciate the response. Pretty sure they hardware decode it as they both have Dolby Licences So there is a difference between Hardware Decode and Passthrough. Quote
m2radio Posted May 16 Author Posted May 16 (edited) 11 minutes ago, allaboutbuzz said: Pretty sure they hardware decode it as they both have Dolby Licences So there is a difference between Hardware Decode and Passthrough. True but through bitstream or passthrough truehd will still be truehd and my amp pics it up as such. Like I mentioned earlier, I’m using the 4900 different than most. But, good for education purposes. With the fire cube and a truehd source. I was just hoping to ditch some devices. Edited May 16 by m2radio Quote
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