Pipewire and passthrough of digitally encoded images
Hi there, so far I have been ignorant of Pipewire, mostly because I couldn't get it to work in one of my usage scenarios. Now I have a different one: my HTPC running Tumbleweed is connected to a 4K TV via HDMI 2.1, similarly as a BluRay player and a Dreambox SAT receiver. The TV then sends its inputs via E-ARC to an AV receiver. In order to get the AV receiver decode any digitally encoded image (AC-3, DTS, DTS-Master-HD, Dolby-X, Dolby-Atmos, etc.), I want to pass such formats untouched to the receiver (passthrough). With PulseAudio this is partially possibly up to DTS, but passthrough for 7.1 and higher formats is not possible, it just ends up as Dolby Digital (AC-3) or DTS at the AV-R. I tried to get it going with Pipewire, but I won't get any sound. There is no error message, just no sound. My question is: (a) does anybody have this working at home? If so, how? (b) is passthrough supposed to work with Pipewire? If so, how? Thanks a lot for any suggestions/feedback! Cheers. l8er manfred
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Manfred Hollstein