Bug#993806: Fwd: Bug#993806: kodi: No audio on DVD playback, AC3 Support

[Alban Browaeys <alban.browaeys@gmail.com>]

package kodi
clone 993806 -1
submitter -1 Markus Koller <markus-koller@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-koller@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