Hi everyone, new Kodi user here.
I recently descended into the rabbit hole of home theaters, 4K Blu-rays, Dolby Vision, and passthrough audio. I quickly learned that my AV receiver and TV don’t always play nice, and I found myself making adjustments to audio offsets on a per codec basis. For example, my AVR requires an audio offset of -175ms with Dolby TrueHD content, while only -100ms for DTSHD MA content. Given that by default, Kodi controls audio offsets on a per video (or all video) basis, I found it annoying to constantly have to change the offset based on the movie or TV show I was watching.
Enter Audio Offset Manager…
Audio Offset Manager is a utility addon for Kodi (v20.0+) designed to enhance your viewing experience by providing dynamic audio delay adjustments tailored to the content you’re watching. This addon intelligently adjusts the audio offset based on the detected HDR type and audio format according to user-configured settings.
Features
- Dynamic Audio Offset Application: Automatically sets audio delay based on the HDR type and audio format of the current video, applying user-defined offsets to ensure consistent audio-visual sync without needing repeated manual adjustments.
- Active Monitoring Mode: Monitors when users manually adjust audio delay via Kodi’s OSD settings, stores those adjustments, and applies them for future playback of similar content. This feature is particularly useful for initial AV calibration, allowing users to fine-tune audio sync and have those settings automatically applied to similar content in the future.
- Custom Seek-Backs: Offers user-configurable “seek-back” functionality to rewind a few seconds in specific playback situations to keep audio synchronized, such as:
- When playback starts or resumes
- When the audio stream changes during playback
- When the audio offset is adjusted
- When the player is unpaused
- Modular Event-Driven Design: The addon is built with a modular, event-driven architecture, allowing for easy maintenance and future enhancements.
Supported formats
- Audio Formats
- Dolby Atmos / TrueHD
- Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3)
- Dolby Digital (AC-3)
- DTS:X / DTS-HD MA (8+ channels)
- DTS-HD MA (6 channels)
- DTS (DCA)
- Video Formats
- Dolby Vision
- HDR10
- HDR10+
- HLG
- SDR
This addon streamlines your viewing experience by automating the process of audio delay adjustment, ensuring that once you’ve configured the appropriate offsets, they are dynamically applied for each type of content. You can download it from GitHub and install it manually, or wait until I can submit it to the repo. I spent a lot of time testing and catching edge cases of different settings combinations, but please do let me know if you experience any bugs.
I hope this addon can help you as much as it helps me. Thanks!
Download Audio Offset Manager v1.0.0