5.1 Music, will now only playback as stereo audio.

[furiousp 1]

Shield 9.0.1 / Emby Premiere 4.6.7.0

Hello,

My 5.1 Music files, will now only playback as stereo. In the past the same files did playback as multi-channel audio. Files are VLC wav files.

-Movie soundtracks play back correctly as multi-channel audio. My only recent change was a Shield update.

-On Shield preferences: Stereo mix down NOT selected.

Any advice appreciated,

furiousP

 

embyserver-2.txt

[furiousp 1]

Reporting back, seems like I stumbled onto a fix.

Attempted to cast Emby from my PC, when I dicontinued that cast and switched back to pay from Shield all channels were back.

 

Problem solved(?)

Log attached.

 

furiousP

 

embyserver.txt

[Luke 37096]

Hi, when you were casting it looks like you played through the yamaha receiver, is that right?

[furiousp 1]

Yes.

[Luke 37096]

Ok it's possible that then going through that, that's all it will support.

[furiousp 1]

Thanks for your response, Luke.

As mentioned, the 5.1 audio (Shield>via HDMI>Yamaha receiver) is indeed working again.

Ok it's possible that then going through that, that's all it will support.

Yes, operator error.

I discussed w/ a friend who has operated a similar setup to mine and I think I've identified the issue.

At some point I was using the the Emby app from my smartphone as a remote control,

playing from the Shield player.  I inadvertently  selected to "cast" in the phone app, switching from the robust  (Shield) multi-channel, to the

phone's 2 channel output and creating the issue.

The switching back and forth reset/cleared the configuration correcting the problem.

furiousP

 

[Luke 37096]

Thanks for the feedback.