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Request change in handling of multi-channel
Awesome Donkey:
Also worth noting that if you're bitstreaming DSD, downmixing won't work while bitstreaming either.
The best way around this that I can think of is to create a new zone and use the ZoneSwitch feature (which you can set it up to detect multichannel DSD content using something like [Compression]=[DSD] [Channels]=>2 for the search). From there set Output Format up like Rod mentioned above using Output Encoding set to whichever DSD option you want to use and set Channels set to 2. Do note that any conversion (which downmixing would be) goes through a PCM conversion step, so in that case it'd be DSD > PCM > DSD, and it's always a lossy conversion.
The alternatives would be letting MC convert the multichannel DSD content to PCM and playing that back (since it goes through a PCM conversion step anyways if doing the above) or just not playing back multichannel content completely to avoid this issue.
dejanm:
These proposed solutions are not very practical. I would rather live with this error than to have to switch between different zones in the middle of the playlist. But if I understood it correctly, the claim is that in the case of DSD it is not possible to do any downmixing ... ?
By the way the environment is:
Windows 10 1909 (Build 18363.720)
MC26 - 56
Awesome Donkey:
Can't downmix DSD without doing any conversions and it's not possible to downmix while bitstreaming DSD.
Using ZoneSwitch with a special zone setup for converting/downmixing multichannel DSD would make things easy and automatic. Like I said, the DSD conversion/downmix is a lossy conversion and it has to go through a PCM step regardless if you're converting DSD to DSD (so DSD > PCM > DSD) or DSD to PCM.
So it's up to you whether or not doing that would be worth it or not. If not it'd probably be best to avoid multichannel DSD content.
rec head:
If you aren't familiar with Zones in MC vs Zones in an AVR they aren't anything alike. I have a Bitstream Zone setup so that anything I have tagged as Atmos/DTS:X will bitstream so my AVR can decode them. Everything else (audio and video) plays through my "normal" Zone where everything is converted by MC and sent LPCM to the AVR. All switching is done automatically. What is mentioned above is basically the same but you will have a 2ch and a 6ch Zone setup and a Zone Switch rule on when to do the auto-switching.
Zones are more like groups of settings for outputs than different locations.
dtc:
I believe it is still the case that ZoneSwitch does not work in playlists.
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