Hi,

 

under 'Myconfiguration' you wrote:

Tux wrote:

.....

Speaker roles, volume and distances are set.

Audio mode set to: speaker 5

.....

 

but later

you wrote:

Tux wrote:

...

Remark:

Audio setting is set to Speaker 4 and the music is broadcast by 7 speakers (only the BL7.4 is turned off).

...

 

If the second Speaker setting is done, all 7 speakers (3 left and 3 right and Subwoofer) are used. This results is a 'power 'stereo mode.

If you want 5.1 or 7.1 sound you have to select Speaker 5.

Check this and what Beovox mentioned about 'Passthrogh' setting in Kodi.

 

I hope this helps.

Tux wrote:

- Output format: Dolby Digital +PLIIx MOVIE / Speaker 5

PLx could also indicates that the source format is stereo. You're sure you're playing a file with surround audio?

or

the Pi/Kody is only passing through the audible channels. 

 

 

Hello,

Thanks for your support.

I'm going to change my settings according to your proposals.

@RaMaBo: TV setting is speaker 5 and audio setting is speaker 4. Do you mean to get the surrounding effect I have to change to speaker 5 for audio too?

Have a nice Sunday.

Take care,

Christophe

Thanks BEOVOX141. Desabling the passthrough option solved the issue.

Christophe

I've had over the past years several RPI's from version 1 to the latest 3B (now there the version 4, I know).

I've tried several images, some specially designed for playing media. But with the Opensource software, you will always end with one or other (audio)format, which your set can't handle. Passthrough should be the correct setting, but then it depends on the telly if it can decode the source/movie. I liked the Max2Play software the nicest. You can control your Pi from a distance with it's webinterface. If you use a Flirc dongle, then you can even control the RPI with Kodi with the Beo4.

An improved version of this was the Shield from NVidea with Kodi installed. Runs very smooth and gives a far better picture than the RPI. The RPI shows 1080p content, but doesn't give a dynamic picture.

I finally ended up with the ATV4 and ATV4K with the Infuse (Pro) app installed. This does play every format, runs smooth and the menu's (choosing subtitles, audiotrack etc) are way better than Kodi gives. Setting the output to PCM and it handles 7.1 sourced content without problems.

Kodi can be side-installed on an ATV4 or ATV4K. But that takes a lot of knowledge (been there, done that, moved on..)on how to and still it doesn't works as nice as the Infuse app.