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Audio output through toslink will at some point turn bad/distorted, requiring reboot - Sumguy - 2024-01-08
I'm running kodi 19.5 on a Mygica box (I can post specs if necessary). The only audio output the box has is toslink, I have that connected to a audio/video receiver. When playing music from a NAS library, it will always happen that at some point the audio will become distorted (like it's gone from 16-bit to 8-bit). Unplugging / replugging the toslink cable doesn't fix it. Power-cycling the receiver doesn't fix it. Soft rebooting or hard restarting the android box always fixes the problem, the audio comes back correctly, but it could be another 1/2 or 1 hour and the problem is back.
This problem seems worse when playing musiic. When using a streaming add-on the box will play audio/video for hours and this problem might not even happen once during an evening session, but sometimes it will.
Any ideas? Can I poke around with device drivers / updates on this box? Manually install these files maybe?
This might not / probably isin't a kodi issue, but I don't know what other web forum would be on-target for this.