[kodi-rpi] Audio passthrough broken again on kodi-rpi-19.5

[henkv]

Hi,
Since the last update to kodi-rpi-19.5.57808.e619f5ae9e-2-armv7h. audio passthrough via HDMI is broken again. Downgrade to kodi-rpi-19.4-6-armv7h fixes this issue.

I get the following errors in the kodi log:
2023-01-09 14:03:27.160 T:11 DEBUG <general>: Skipped 75 duplicate messages..
2023-01-09 14:03:27.159 T:11 DEBUG <general>: ActiveAE::SyncStream - average error 5.549975, last average error: 1505.276305
2023-01-09 14:03:27.160 T:11 ERROR <general>: CAEEncoderFFmpeg::Encode - Encoding failed
2023-01-09 14:03:27.303 T:11 DEBUG <general>: Skipped 30 duplicate messages..
2023-01-09 14:03:27.303 T:11 DEBUG <general>: ActiveAE::SyncStream - average error of 2059.039669, start adjusting
2023-01-09 14:03:27.304 T:11 ERROR <general>: CAEEncoderFFmpeg::Encode - Encoding failed
2023-01-09 14:03:28.928 T:16 DEBUG <general>: Skipped 297 duplicate messages..

[graysky]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('henkv', 'S')ince the last update to kodi-rpi-19.5.57808.e619f5ae9e-2-armv7h. audio passthrough via HDMI is broken again. Downgrade to kodi-rpi-19.4-6-armv7h fixes this issue.

[henkv]

Thank you. The new version works fine.
So it looks like ffmpeg 4.4.2 breaks audio passthrough on RPI. Do you know if there is a patch that might fix this?

[graysky]

Matrix does not officially support ffmpeg in the n4.4 tree. I originally switched to it due to changes in more recent versions of hw decoding code/incompatibilities on 64-bit builds to decode HEVC. The newest version of the package is using the officially supported version of ffmpeg with the original version of the hw decoding code to keep everything working.

In any case, the release of Nexus is any day now, so kodi-rpi and kodi-rpi-legacy will switch over to it with ffmpeg-4.4.1.

[henkv]

Hi,
I just tried kodi-rpi-20.0-1 and audio passthrough works fine this new version.

[graysky]

Glad to hear our packages work