Audio for movies

[stourwalk]

Installed MrMC yesterday and am very happy - I managed to add all the movies/tv that the RPi is sharing via Openelec and it's lovely and quick.

The ATV is connected directly to the TV (via HDMI) - so no fancy AV receiver or anything.

When I try and watch any of the movies (which I guess have > 2.0 sound) I don't get *any* sound at all and I have a similar issue with the TV shows.

Now I thought I set any audio options sensibly, but for the avoidance of doubt, in this scenario - what *should* they be

[TheMarkB]

I'd start with manually setting the audio settings to stereo - in the Apple TV's own settings.

[stourwalk]

Tried that - still no luck.

Curiously if I show the movie info whilst it's playing - all the movies show up as 0.0 sound..

I can't work out *why* movies would be different to TV, unless it doesn't like the DTS part. The TV shows do show as 5.1 or 2.0 depending on what they are.

EDIT: in case it's relevant - I'm also on tvOS 9.1

[stourwalk]

Still no joy on this

Majority of my movies just show 0.0 as a sound format whilst playing (and obviously make no noise at all) - they show with the correct flags on the media view.

Kodi on the rPi has no issue with the same files (hell they are shared from the rPi in the first place!).

Is there anyway to find out why MrMC thinks the audio format is 0.0??

[davilla]

/me hints, timezone...

[stourwalk]

ATV4 TZ = Central Standard Time, MrMC shows the correct time
rPi TZ = Central Standard Time, Kodi shows the same correct time

both have identical configs in MrMC/Kodi for Internationalization

MrMC - play Sintel - correctly outputs sound and shows 5.1 in channel config in the video overlay
MrMC - play Hobbit - no sound and shows 0.0 in channel config in the video overlay

rPi/Kodi - plays both fine..

MrMC is playing music just fine, TV Shows work too, so I'm guessing it's related to the 'fancier' sound formats?

ATV4 is running iOS 9.1 and MrMC 1.1.0
rPi is running Milhouse OE nightly build

Both devices are connected to the TV via HDMI (no fancy receivers )

[amet]

ATV4 TZ = Central Standard Time...

make that some other TZ(non US) and test

[davilla]

Canada has some nice timezones that align with usa ones

[stourwalk]

Canada has some nice timezones that align with usa ones

As does Mexico No wonder I couldn't 'guess' the reason - but it all works perfectly now..

I assume that there is a logical reason why having a TZ outside of the US makes it work? (and that maybe it's on your 'fix' list at some point!)

Thanks!

[cosmoxl]

Canada has some nice timezones that align with usa ones

As does Mexico No wonder I couldn't 'guess' the reason - but it all works perfectly now..

I assume that there is a logical reason why having a TZ outside of the US makes it work? (and that maybe it's on your 'fix' list at some point!)

Thanks!

I haven't had any problem playing any video but am curious about this as well.