I have two different kind of DTS-files. Some of them have all 6 channels encoded as they are and the others have “stereo” sound as 3 channels are decoded together. 3 * 2 makes 6 channels after my DAC decodes them.
Both these files play as expected with Mplayer, but Volumio does something weird because the stereo files play multichannel as expected but 6-channel files play as 2-channel stereo.
I suppose Volumio is passing 2-channel files through as they are and DAC know how to handle this. Something happends to those 6-channel files, because they are downmixed to 2-channel at the end.
And - once again - all these files play well as multichannel audio by Mplayer. My DAC recognizes them all DTS while played with Mplayer.
I just installed volumio 1.5 as I came from a gmrender-resurrect (DLNA) installation that I wasn’t fully satisfied with.
Too long between gaps between songs even though it should support gapless playback.
No DTS/AC3 audio passthrough.
(It was stable enough though.)
gapless playback on volumio is almost spot on… can hear a fraction of a milisecond of silence between tracks.
No DTS/AC3 passthrough … yet, as this thread also indicates.
I can confirm this as well.
apparently renaming a (DTS) WAV file to .flac will trick mpd into passthrough (does not work for ac3 files).
Is DTS/AC3 playback being considered as a new feature for a future release ? Or is the demand for this not that high ?
Any other platform on the PI with a DLNA renderer that supports this ?
My PI is connected to my AVR using the HDMI port.
This means multichannel audio can be passed as either passthrough or as decoded multichannel PCM (LPCM).
Either option will do fine
I am using the jriver mediacenter (windows) as the DLNA service.
It has a lot of options on what to parse to the DLNA renderer (original, pcm etc.).`
No matter what setting I use, AC3 tracks are played back as 2 channel PCM on my AVR.