Hello,
testing now the Volumio software on Pi and so far it looks good, but i found it does miss one thing: HDMI Multichannel (from 4.0 to 7.1) audio. I have read various topics of the past that has no or little reply but it seems that Volumio can do multichannel on USB, so it is a matter of software implementation. On this aspect several progress has been done in the last year - at the bottom some links i have found relevant to the topic - so i wonder if Multichannel HDMI Audio Out will be added to Volumio anytime soon.
+1 for this. One main reason to use HDMI is for multichannel audio. I have a number of multi-channel BD-A and DVD-A discs ripped to FLAC… Volumio plays them, but only the 2 main channels… Less than ideal by a long shot.
Same here. I finally ripped my DVD-A collection to disk (working on SACD next) - both formats have multi-channel hi-res versions in addition to stereo. The hardware/kernel layer supports multichannel over HDMI so it seems odd that Volumio would not take advantage of that?
I am considering adding one of the low-jitter HATs to my Pi for hi-res stereo but am still looking for a way to stream Multichannel over HDMI. Any chance of this (multichannel PCM/DSD passthrough to an HDMI receiver/DAC) being supported?