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<blockquote data-quote="vinyl conflict" data-source="post: 1421996" data-attributes="member: 146148"><p>Well I found out how to fix this so posting my findings incase anyone else comes across this issue. My issue seemed to be related to 2 problems.</p><p></p><p>found a post on apple discussions in which someone stated:</p><p></p><p>"To pass Dolby or DTS to your receiver or TV, you must</p><p>go to Audio Midi Setup and select your HDMI output and</p><p>set it to 24bit, stereo. This will allow pass through of</p><p>these signals to the receiver/TV.</p><p> </p><p>This is because, Dolby and DTS are streams encoded</p><p>into a stereo digital stream. There is a flag in this stream</p><p>to tell the the receiveing device to decode it."</p><p></p><p>Once that was done I then needed to change a setting in XBMC (Media centre app) where i play i films from. I changed my output to Optical (which converts the AAC track to AC3) and kept my output "device" as HDMI.</p><p></p><p>I guess when i previously changed to 2 channel in mac OSX's midi device, XBMC was trying to bitstream AAC to my amp which cannot decode it. The option i changed is not really intuitive and should be labelled AAC to AC3 or some such not "optical"</p><p></p><p>hope this helps someone</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vinyl conflict, post: 1421996, member: 146148"] Well I found out how to fix this so posting my findings incase anyone else comes across this issue. My issue seemed to be related to 2 problems. found a post on apple discussions in which someone stated: "To pass Dolby or DTS to your receiver or TV, you must go to Audio Midi Setup and select your HDMI output and set it to 24bit, stereo. This will allow pass through of these signals to the receiver/TV. This is because, Dolby and DTS are streams encoded into a stereo digital stream. There is a flag in this stream to tell the the receiveing device to decode it." Once that was done I then needed to change a setting in XBMC (Media centre app) where i play i films from. I changed my output to Optical (which converts the AAC track to AC3) and kept my output "device" as HDMI. I guess when i previously changed to 2 channel in mac OSX's midi device, XBMC was trying to bitstream AAC to my amp which cannot decode it. The option i changed is not really intuitive and should be labelled AAC to AC3 or some such not "optical" hope this helps someone [/QUOTE]
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