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Request change in handling of multi-channel
mojave:
--- Quote from: Hendrik on February 07, 2018, 09:51:06 am ---This seems to be exactly what you are asking for.
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Just to clarify, kr4 did not start the thread. :)
JimH:
We can still hold him responsible, can't we?
Fitzcaraldo215:
I have a 7.1 system, and I have really not been too troubled in playing 2.0, 5.0, 5.1 and 7.1 files. My music files are all 2.0, 5.0 or 5.1. Some BD videos are 7.1, others 5.1. I do have some 3.0 and 4.0 files, but they use 5.0 container files, so no problem.
I use two zones - 5.1 and 7.1 output - together with "For Stereo Sources, only mix to 2.1" in DSP Studio. I do use JR Room Corection for bass management. Zoneswitch automatically switches from the 5.1 to the 7.1 zone automatically as needed based on the Channels tag. Yes, the two zones would lose the current playlist when switching. But, I never intermix music and 7.1 video in the same playlist. That does not make sense to me. And, I have only a few music BD-As in 7.1.
So, output is always 2.1 for 2.0 input files and 5.1 for 5.0 or 5.1 input files. It is 7.1 for 7.1 BD files, mainly videos. I use a Mch DAC now, but when I formerly used a Mch prepro via HDMI, the above worked fine with bass management in the prepro permanently turned off in favor of JRiver bass management.
I did have some channel misalignment for a time at first because I had been using Source Number of Channels instead of 5.1 or 7.1 as my output setting in DSP Studio. Source Number of Channels causes channel misassigments between 5.0 and 5.1 input files. It is deceptive that way.
tbng:
Contrary to what some you have claimed, "source number of channels" does NOT function in the way that name implies. Selecting that configurarion will NOT result in a dynamic change in output number of channels based on input number of channels. If you select 5.1 in JRiver, you will ALWAYS get 5.1. If the source is two-channel, you will still get 5.1 out with three of the channels containing no data. Dataless channels mean nothing to a surround processor. It still sees that as 5.1 and, therefore, will not enage two-channel DSP processing. The user must manually select the desired zone in JRiver prior to playback so that it send two of multi channels, a shortcoming for reasons I have already stated. If Roon can do it, so can JRiver.
I eagerly await a JRiver representative's comments on this matter.
JimH:
Hendrik is on the JRiver team.
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