[wrxtasy]

Hello everyone

I've just bought a Smart TV and I have some issues regarding encoding/pass-through

My setup is the following:
- TV : Sony KD-65XH9505
- Audio system: Denon AVR-3313
- Media storage: NAS Synology DS214+

I've tested these interconnection but I have the same problems in both case:
- HDMI ACR
- SPDIF optique

My issues are:
- by default the TV is sending Dolby Digital/Dolby Digital plus sound format. But on some stereo sources (old TV shows for exemple) the sound is poor. My AVR is doing a great job to enhance such sources using Dolby Prologic II, so I would like to have the stereo sound sent as-is and not transcoded in DD by the TV.
- if I activate pass-through mode on the TV, it still sends the sound in DD. I've confirmed this with Netflix with  source in Stereo (Skins) and sources in Dolby/Dolby Vision (His House)
- I have issues with Kodi, VLS or DS Video: auto configuration (auto1 or auto2 + PT on auto) make the sound suttering (DTS/DD/Stereo sources fail to stabilize like if the AVR fails to identify the type of sound)
- If I activate PCM+Passthrough on the TV, I'm only getting stereo sound.

I'm quite lost and I would be happy if you have any suggestion why PT is not working correctly.

With y old setup (SONY 40S3000 + Media player/Mede8er + Netflix/Samsung UBD-K8500), I didn't have these issues as the central element was my AVR and not the TV (which was not smart at all)

I've bought this TV to prevent buying a media player (Shield or others) but I fear I won't have the choice...

All you really need if you want nearly complete audio passthru is a Gigabit LAN CoreELEC Kodi device, + WeChip (or Clone) wireless remote like the new G40S. It will not even cost much.

You really are just doubling up on Android TV getting a Shield, in fact it has inferior HDR vs your TV and your Sony X95H is very likely to get the Apple TV App soonish as well.
The X95H has the excellent Sony X1 Ultimate Picture Processor as well that does this:
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/92knym43

BTW you would likely get more visibility and help on your Audio issues over in the Android Kodi Subforum:
https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=164

[Freyja]

Hello everyone

I've just bought a Smart TV and I have some issues regarding encoding/pass-through

My setup is the following:
- TV : Sony KD-65XH9505
- Audio system: Denon AVR-3313
- Media storage: NAS Synology DS214+

I've tested these interconnection but I have the same problems in both case:
- HDMI ACR
- SPDIF optique

My issues are:
- by default the TV is sending Dolby Digital/Dolby Digital plus sound format. But on some stereo sources (old TV shows for exemple) the sound is poor. My AVR is doing a great job to enhance such sources using Dolby Prologic II, so I would like to have the stereo sound sent as-is and not transcoded in DD by the TV.
- if I activate pass-through mode on the TV, it still sends the sound in DD. I've confirmed this with Netflix with  source in Stereo (Skins) and sources in Dolby/Dolby Vision (His House)
- I have issues with Kodi, VLS or DS Video: auto configuration (auto1 or auto2 + PT on auto) make the sound suttering (DTS/DD/Stereo sources fail to stabilize like if the AVR fails to identify the type of sound)
- If I activate PCM+Passthrough on the TV, I'm only getting stereo sound.

I'm quite lost and I would be happy if you have any suggestion why PT is not working correctly.

With y old setup (SONY 40S3000 + Media player/Mede8er + Netflix/Samsung UBD-K8500), I didn't have these issues as the central element was my AVR and not the TV (which was not smart at all)

I've bought this TV to prevent buying a media player (Shield or others) but I fear I won't have the choice...

All you really need if you want nearly complete audio passthru is a Gigabit LAN CoreELEC Kodi device, + WeChip (or Clone) wireless remote like the new G40S. It will not even cost much.

You really are just doubling up on Android TV getting a Shield, in fact it has inferior HDR vs your TV and your Sony X95H is very likely to get the Apple TV App soonish as well.
The X95H has the excellent Sony X1 Ultimate Picture Processor as well that does this:
https://<div class="rfBrowextIocHighlightLink" key="forums.whirlpool.net.au" link="https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/idn:forums.whirlpool.net.au" style=""><span class="rfBrowextIocHighlightLink__title">forums.whirlpool.net.au</span></div>/archive/92knym43

BTW you would likely get more visibility and help on your Audio issues over in the Android Kodi Subforum:
https://<div class="rfBrowextIocHighlightLink" key="forum.kodi.tv" link="https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/idn:forum.kodi.tv" style=""><span class="rfBrowextIocHighlightLink__title">forum.kodi.tv</span></div>/forumdisplay.php?fid=164

many thanks,

I don't exactly understand what you mean with "Gigabit LAN CoreELEC Kodi device, + WeChip (or Clone) wireless remote like the new G40S"
Will it supports all applications (kodi, netflix, etc)?

[noggin]

- if I activate pass-through mode on the TV, it still sends the sound in DD. I've confirmed this with Netflix with  source in Stereo (Skins) and sources in Dolby/Dolby Vision (His House)

Have you confirmed with Netflix that Skins isn't encoded with 2.0 DD? You wouldn't always expect Netflix's Android TV app to decode DD to PCM 2.0 and output it in PCM 2.0 if the streaming source was DD encoded and the output config was pass-through?  (Dolby Digital can be used for stereo as well as surround 5.1 content). 

If your AVR doesn't allow you to enable Pro Logic II decoding on a DD 2.0 source - that may be another issue.

[Freyja]

- if I activate pass-through mode on the TV, it still sends the sound in DD. I've confirmed this with Netflix with  source in Stereo (Skins) and sources in Dolby/Dolby Vision (His House)

Have you confirmed with Netflix that Skins isn't encoded with 2.0 DD? You wouldn't always expect Netflix's Android TV app to decode DD to PCM 2.0 and output it in PCM 2.0 if the streaming source was DD encoded and the output config was pass-through?  (Dolby Digital can be used for stereo as well as surround 5.1 content). 

If your AVR doesn't allow you to enable Pro Logic II decoding on a DD 2.0 source - that may be another issue.

Yes it's not DD and with my old player it was not issue.
My AVR doesn't allow me to switch to Pro Logic if the received signal is DD or DTS.

[Freyja]

Hello,

I've got an update for the TV this weekend.

Good news I'm now able to output DTS/DD/Stereo using KODI without any problems.
I'm still not able to select easily DD/Stereo using Netflix.