Please help! DOLBY TRUE HD ATMOS PASSTHROUGH ISSUE

[drsushrut13]

My Nvidia Shield Pro 2019 is connected to the Denon 3600h in a 7.2.4 setup. While playing BD true HD 7.1 atmos remuxes in passthrough mode, it is not able to pass through Dolby True HD 7.1 But 5.1 dd plus plays fine. There is zero input signal in passthrough mode. (Kodi, Plex, VLC).

Setting of Nvidia shield

Dolby audio processing off
Manual codecs selected
Kodi settings- expert mode, pass through on and all codecs selected (IEC packer too).
Have tried movie, direct, pure, and auto modes in the Denon.
Denon setting- Passthrough On.

If I switch off the passthrough, I can play the file as 7.1 PCM, with no Atmos metadata.

The only option left is to play the file as 7.1 PCM with Denon fake up-mixing(Movie Dolby surround mode) for Atmos. But that will lead to considerable degradation in atmos quality.

Help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Dwaipayan]

Did you find a solution? You can try swapping the HDMI cable for a better one and see if that makes any difference.

 

[Amarendra]

My Nvidia Shield Pro 2019 is connected to the Denon 3600h in a 7.2.4 setup. While playing BD true HD 7.1 atmos remuxes in passthrough mode, it is not able to pass through Dolby True HD 7.1 But 5.1 dd plus plays fine. There is zero input signal in passthrough mode. (Kodi, Plex, VLC).

Setting of Nvidia shield

Dolby audio processing off
Manual codecs selected
Kodi settings- expert mode, pass through on and all codecs selected (IEC packer too).
Have tried movie, direct, pure, and auto modes in the Denon.
Denon setting- Passthrough On.

If I switch off the passthrough, I can play the file as 7.1 PCM, with no Atmos metadata.

The only option left is to play the file as 7.1 PCM with Denon fake up-mixing(Movie Dolby surround mode) for Atmos. But that will lead to considerable degradation in atmos quality.

Help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Is it able to play atmos on Netflix through shield tv ? If yes it could be a Kodi issue.

 

[drsushrut13]

Hi. Dd plus atmos is playing. Cable is not an issue. Trued with nvidia shield. Zidoo. Still i think denon is not able to transcode dolby true hd.

 

[Dwaipayan]

Hi. Dd plus atmos is playing. Cable is not an issue. Trued with nvidia shield. Zidoo. Still i think denon is not able to transcode dolby true hd.

It supports THD decoding. When you say Denon setting > Passthrough ON, where is this setting located? If it is under video, then that setting is not related to audio format. It means when the receiver is in standby mode, which input will be passed through to the connected display.

 

[vinothmanick]

Hai,

I Highly suggest you to try plex server as well to confirm, i too even faced this isseu in my shield.

After installing kodi my prime video app only played DD+ not atmos after uninstalling kodi and rebooting shield fixed the issue.

Kodi didn't worked for me so i stick with plex

 

[sud98]

I am able to play it through Nvidia shield(kodi)-> marantz, so I am sure you too can. I have a 5.1.4 setup. Please send screenshots of your shield settings when you set passthrough as on and what you see when you click on info in the receiver.

 

[dashy]

In Kodi, in some system setting, there was a toggle for selecting the capabilities of the AV receiver, like Dolby Dig, TrueHD, DTS etc. I think in the newer versions they have removed it - I cant find them anymore.

 

[dashy]

Plex should be able to do it natively, given that Nvidia Shield does the Truehd passthrough natively - isnt it?

 

[jagadeeshwarank]

For simplicity can you try using Just player, you can simply pick up a file and play rather than setting up move library through Kodi or Plex.

 

[Dhruv.Arora]

Long shot but try updating the Denon firmware

 

[dashy]

Did you get the Kodi settings - I remember there was AV receiver capabilities, where you had to toggle - DTS, DTS HD, True HD etc.

 

[jsmithe]

https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/System/Audio#Audio_Passthrough

 

[alladinkachirag]

I have been also using nVidia Shield TV primarily for Plex and connected to my LG OLED CX which is connected to Samsung Soundbar through eARC. Though the sound was good, I did not really pay lot of attention to what content (format) was getting into the Soundbar until I decided to see that info displayed. All this while soundbar was only playing in Stereo PCM mode! So, I enabled Passthrough both on Plex (earlier it was disabled) and OLED (earlier it was PCM) and now the format is correctly displayed. Soundstage is a bit wider as well. Did not try with Kodi though.