ATMOS On 2020 Sony Android TV

[Nyder 1]

Hi, 

I recently upgraded to Emby Premier so I could stream 4k/HDR/ATMOS to my Sony Android TV.
The TV is hooked up to a sound bar via EARC  which Supports both EARC/4K passthrough and DTS-HD/Atmos/DTSX etc.

I have all the pass through settings enabled in the app and on the tv.

When I play a file which normally displays ATMOS on my soundbar when I play from HTPC  I only seem to be getting TRUEHD 7.1 via the Emby for android tv app.

Is ATMOS supported for Emby for android tv? is there a server setting I need to enable?

Nyd


 

[ebr 16309]

Atmos is supported if all of the hardware supports it.  I just tested this myself recently.

Why do you say you "only seem to be getting"?

[Nyder 1]

45 minutes ago, ebr said:

Atmos is supported if all of the hardware supports it.  I just tested this myself recently.

Why do you say you "only seem to be getting"?

Figured it out, Sony apps don't support lossless audio, everything works via Emby theatre for Windows

Thanks,

Nyd

 

Edited October 1, 2020 by Nyder

[Dariusz 25]

On 9/30/2020 at 6:45 PM, Nyder said:

Hi, 

I recently upgraded to Emby Premier so I could stream 4k/HDR/ATMOS to my Sony Android TV.
The TV is hooked up to a sound bar via EARC  which Supports both EARC/4K passthrough and DTS-HD/Atmos/DTSX etc.

I have all the pass through settings enabled in the app and on the tv.

When I play a file which normally displays ATMOS on my soundbar when I play from HTPC  I only seem to be getting TRUEHD 7.1 via the Emby for android tv app.

Is ATMOS supported for Emby for android tv? is there a server setting I need to enable?

Nyd


 

which sony TV do you have?  I believe sony will release a firmware update in near future for 2020 TVs which enables eARC on the ports as well as HDMI 2.1, until then, these TVs should only be passing ARC and HDMI 2.0.. so ARC will not pass uncompressed signals until then to my knowledge.. 

[Nyder 1]

I have a Sony A8H.
It already does support EARC, and it works fine.

Sony Smart TV Apps don't pass lossless audio via passthrough/EARC or otherwise.
Since my source file was ATMOS-TRUEHD=Lossless it didn't get passed by the Emby for android TV app.

When I use Emby Theater on windows 10, the Lossless audio passes through just fine via EARC and I got Dolby Atmos.

Apparently issue is on all smart TV's LG etc.  So solution is use Home Theater PC or Nvidia Shield, or other dedicated media streaming device.

Nyd

[ebr 16309]

Correct.  The only Android device I'm aware of that will pass TrueHD or DTS-HD is the Shield.

[sbarmen 0]

I wonder about this if it still the case. I have a Sony TV with Google TV. If I run Netflix or Apple TV for example I get Atmos sound, but not with Emby. My TV is a Sony XR-77A80J (https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/televisions-projectors-oled-tvs-android-/xr-77a80j/specifications). Am I doing something wrong? 

[FrostByte 5434]

1 hour ago, sbarmen said:

I wonder about this if it still the case. I have a Sony TV with Google TV. If I run Netflix or Apple TV for example I get Atmos sound, but not with Emby. My TV is a Sony XR-77A80J (https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/televisions-projectors-oled-tvs-android-/xr-77a80j/specifications). Am I doing something wrong? 

Netflix and AppleTV use DD+ Atmos not TrueHD Atmos.  The Emby app should pass DD+ Atmos also. 

As far as I know Sony apps still don't passthrough TrueHD.  However, if you want to test this out turn off audio transcoding on the server.  This will tell Emby to just pass the audio untouched and let the hardware try and handle it. 

Edit: if you try turning off audio transcoding make sure it's actually coming out as TrueHD and triggering Atmos.  Some devices will auto convert using hardware to something like PCM 2.0

Edited 3 minutes ago by FrostByte