[alining]

Surround issue Kodi + Apple TV

My setup:
LGTV OLED
Apple TV 4K connected to TV via HDMI
Sonos Arc connected to the eArc HDMI port of the TV
2x Sonos Era 100 speakers
1 Sonos sub

The issue is, when I’m watching anything through Kodi, despite having videos with 5.1 surround, I get some sort of “inverted” surround, meaning the speech comes through the satellite speakers and the music, background etc through the soundbar, although it should be the other way around.

I have tried multiple settings in Kodi audio - with and without pass thorough enabled, different number of channels…nothing changes.

If I use any of the other apps - TV+, Paramour, movies bought on Apple, everything works perfectly.

Any thoughts on what could be wrong here? I’m using the latest stable Kodi 21.1 build.

[alining]

So after a few more tweaks I managed to fix it - posting here in case anyone else struggles with this at some point. Rather simple solution it seems but confusing experience nonetheless...
1) TV settings, make sure Passthrough is enabled for the audio source. Mine was set on PCM for some reason.
2) In Kodi audio channels need to match the actual channels your sistem has. I thought mine would be a 5.1 (Sonos Arc soundbar+2 speakers+sub), but it turns out I needed to put 7.1.

The weird thing is that I had the exact same setup and it had worked fine previously, this time I just had it plugged in a different TV - same brand, very similar model, but probably some specific settings that messed things up.

[kambala]

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