Hi,
Soon I will be having a new setup, and I am curious what are the options I have related to audio.
I (will) have the following hardware
– home theatre receiver (Samsung HT-D6750W) that supports DTS-HD but only HDMI 1.x
– htpc with radeon 460 (win10, 4k, 10 bit, etc.)
– LG C7 (4k, hdr, etc.) with HDMI 2.0
Since I would like to output 4k video, I cannot connect the htpc to my receiver with HDMI, since I will lose the 4k capabilities.
So the htpc will be connected to the TV directly.
To get the audio to the receiver there seems to be two options:
1) use the Audio Return Channel HDMI connection from TV to receiver
2) use SPDIF to connect htpc to receiver
Is it correct that if I would use passthrough in Kodi for DTS-HD neither option would work?
Neither ARC nor SPDIF supports DTS-HD, right?
So, there is no way to let the receiver get DTS-HD to let it decode there, right?
That would be a bit dissapointing, because my htpc has a weak CPU.
What would happen if I don’t use passthrough in Kodi?
I read that Kodi will then decode the DTS-HD audio in software into PCM.
What happens with this audio stream in the two cases above?
My guess is that sending it over SPDIF probably works fine and I have surround audio and everything.
And what about ARC? Will that work?