package kodi clone 993806 -1 submitter -1 Markus Koller <markus-kol...@gmx.ch> retitle -1 kodi: no audio when AAC to AC3 transcoding thanks
I clone the bug report to account for the fact the AAC to AC3 transcoding is a recent issue while the DVD audio missing is an older one on Debian. So different bugs. On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:48:36 +0200 Markus Koller <markus-kol...@gmx.ch> wrote: > Hey Alban, > > I ended up switching to the Flatpak version of Kodi to avoid these issues, > so unfortunately I can't easily test (especially since I'm also using sid, > which I see is on an alpha version of Kodi 20 now). > > > How did you do AC3 to AAC transcoding (playing DVD with kodi 19?). > > It was the other way around, transcoding from AAC to AC3. > You can achieve that by disabling AAC passthrough for Pulseaudio via > pavucontrol, and enabling the AC3 transcoding setting in Kodi. > > IIRC it only affected source files with AAC tracks, normal AC3 passthrough > still worked. > > > Mind that upstream kodi ships ffmpeg 4.3.2 so maybe ffmpeg version > > above that one has a regression (since fixed in ffmpeg 5.1 because > > debian kodi 20 with debian ffmpeg 5.1 has DVD audio working). > > So maybe it was this debian ffmpeg 4.3.2 that you reverted to back > > then, hard to tell. > > I checked my dpkg logs but they don't go back far enough :( > FWIW the Flatpak version of Kodi 19.4-Matrix seems to ship with ffmpeg > 4.3.4. > > > (maybe pipewire supports passwthrough nowadays, hard to tell) > > It actually does! But I found it to be buggy (especially with E-AC3 and > DTS), so I'm staying on Pulseaudio for now. > > Greetings, > Markus
