(2016-03-31, 04:38)tate16t Wrote: Hey Matt,

When I play a movie HD Audio does not appear to work. Local movies play fine with the appropriate audio. My AVR displays to current audio format when playing local media however non-local movies remain in stereo and does not switch. I'm connected via HDMI to the AVR. Does the external USB CEC adapter mentioned on the wiki address this problem?

Thanks

(2016-03-31, 04:49)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-03-31, 04:38)tate16t Wrote: Hey Matt,

When I play a movie HD Audio does not appear to work. Local movies play fine with the appropriate audio. My AVR displays to current audio format when playing local media however non-local movies remain in stereo and does not switch. I'm connected via HDMI to the AVR. Does the external USB CEC adapter mentioned on the wiki address this problem?

Thanks

I'm not understanding the specifics of the problem - what do you mean by non-local movie? As long as you have passthrough and the HD audio formats enabled under Settings/System/Audio Output, that should be sufficient regardless of the media's location.

Also, CEC has nothing to do with audio, it's just remote control via HDMI - so you can use your TV/AVR remote to control Kodi without a separate (or universal) remote

(2016-03-31, 05:11)tate16t Wrote: By local I mean movies played from my NAS.

(2016-03-31, 05:11)tate16t Wrote: By local I mean movies played from my NAS.

(2016-03-31, 07:04)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-03-31, 05:11)tate16t Wrote: By local I mean movies played from my NAS.

So you just have the network path mapped as a source in Kodi, using SMB or NFS? If so, there no reason for there to be any issue with the audio output. All of my content is streamed from my NAS via SMB, and HD audio works perfectly (Dolby THD/Atmos, DTS HD-MA)

(2016-03-31, 12:21)wackid Wrote: Hey you mentioned Atmos. I am planning for Atmos too. Just have to wait until Onkyo release their RZ series beasts.
So it will play all Atmos dts:X formats on the Celeron Chromebox?

(2016-03-31, 07:04)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-03-31, 05:11)tate16t Wrote: By local I mean movies played from my NAS.

So you just have the network path mapped as a source in Kodi, using SMB or NFS? If so, there no reason for there to be any issue with the audio output. All of my content is streamed from my NAS via SMB, and HD audio works perfectly (Dolby THD/Atmos, DTS HD-MA)

(2016-03-31, 12:21)wackid Wrote: Hey you mentioned Atmos. I am planning for Atmos too. Just have to wait until Onkyo release their RZ series beasts.
So it will play all Atmos dts:X formats on the Celeron Chromebox?

(2016-03-31, 14:38)tate16t Wrote: Yes. Anything played from the NAS works well. Items I play from Add-ons that are HD Audio do not playback in HD Audio.

(2016-03-28, 21:57)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-03-28, 21:20)Neil123 Wrote: I have given up on my HDMI handshake problem. It was driving me crazy.. Tried everything to get the handshake and get a Kodi screen when i boot. Was about to fork out 800 quid for a new AVR when I got a email from Harman Kardon with a easy fix. Connect Chromebox direct to Tv, optical cable to AVR job done. No handshake issue anymore with AVR.

I'm glad you found a workable solution, but wish there was a better way to troubleshoot these HDMI handshaking issues. Unfortunately, a lot of that is handled by the video BIOS, which is closed source, so we really don't have a lot of insight.

(2016-03-31, 14:32)BoxFreak Wrote:

(2016-03-31, 12:21)wackid Wrote: Hey you mentioned Atmos. I am planning for Atmos too. Just have to wait until Onkyo release their RZ series beasts.
So it will play all Atmos dts:X formats on the Celeron Chromebox?

No Audyssey - no more Onkyo. AccuEQ is just a bad joke.

(2016-04-01, 07:26)robca Wrote: Not sure if it's an appropriate question to ask here, but I'll try

I have OpenELEC running perfectly on my Asus ChromeBox, with TvHeadEnd happily displaying live TV using an HDHomeRun ATSC tuner (I live in the USA).

I'm now trying to configure the EPG using zap2xml. I know I could use xmltv and Schedules Direct, but I'd like to use zap2it if possible. Problem is: there's no zap2xml addon, and the zap2xml script is a perl script (and as far as I can tell, no perl in OpenELEC)

Is there a way to easily run zap2xml, or do I need to install perl first? And, if so, any pointer for a lightweight perl that runs well on OpenELEC

Needless to say, I'm stil pretty lost when it comes to Linux setups...

(2016-03-25, 16:34)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-03-25, 11:50)wackid Wrote: Sorry if this is allready answered. But when upgrading to beta. We will loose the Fritsch enhancements? AFAIK Fritsch left the development.
Will this feature released in further OE versions?

Kodi 16 doesn't have the EGL enhancements that the v15.2 tech preview builds do, but Kodi v17 will, as it will be part of the mainline code there. fritsch and fernetmenta are hard at work now on it, have been for months.

there was a disagreement between some of the Kodi devs and fritsch took a strong position and was going to walk away, but it was ultimately resolved

(2016-04-01, 08:58)zeroq Wrote:

(2016-03-25, 16:34)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-03-25, 11:50)wackid Wrote: Sorry if this is allready answered. But when upgrading to beta. We will loose the Fritsch enhancements? AFAIK Fritsch left the development.
Will this feature released in further OE versions?

Kodi 16 doesn't have the EGL enhancements that the v15.2 tech preview builds do, but Kodi v17 will, as it will be part of the mainline code there. fritsch and fernetmenta are hard at work now on it, have been for months.

there was a disagreement between some of the Kodi devs and fritsch took a strong position and was going to walk away, but it was ultimately resolved

Matt Devo,
Are you going to build kodi 16 with EGL any time soon? I'm using OpenELEC 6.95.1 at the moment but i think picture is better and more clear on OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL if this is true i'm happy to use OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL until OpenELEC 17 is more stable. What do you think?

(2016-04-01, 08:58)zeroq Wrote: Matt Devo,
Are you going to build kodi 16 with EGL any time soon? I'm using OpenELEC 6.95.1 at the moment but i think picture is better and more clear on OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL if this is true i'm happy to use OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.398-Intel_EGL until OpenELEC 17 is more stable. What do you think?