No HD audio

[rsoares28]

Hello,i'm having issues getting SPMC to play the HD audio track... tried AVS forum and was pointed here for some more help. My shield is connected to my onkyo SR308 with an HDMI 1.4 redmere cable from monoprice. I have SPMC setup correctly as per the instructions on AVS forum. passthrough enabled, android raw, checked off all the formats, sync to display off. Not sure what else to do. I had an HTPC connected prior to the shield and all my MKV's with HD audio worked fine

When i play movie with a DD or DTS track my AVR lights up respectively... when i play a movie with an HD audio track.. my AVR stays on "Direct" no sound, video starts but slows to a stop and then freezes for a bit. i have to hit the back button couple times before i'm taken back to my video library in SPMC.

I even ripped a new MKV of Avatar with DTS HD just to eliminate the file as the culprit. I also swapped the shield for the HTPC and sure enough the same files with HD audio are playing fine in kodi and Emby theater.

Could there be any issue with the hardware acceleration? only reason i ask is because of the video slow down.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[heymoe]

A copy of your spmc.log file after you've tried playing a HD Audio file will likely help in debugging this issue.

[rsoares28]

Thanks for the reply. I found out out to starts event logging and the pop up on the screen shows where to locate the log but when i used es file explorer to find it nothing was in the folder. i'll mess around more tonight

[tredmanz]

Use the kodi file manager for the log:

kodi.log - You can go to (SPMC/Kodi SYSTEM => File manager => Add source => select => key in "special://logpath" => OK) to copy the kodi.log from logpath to your USB thumbdrive for debugging purposes. For more information you can refer to http://kodi.wiki/view/Log_file.