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> For your local file issues: Please post a debuglog / file sample. To reproduce the cracklings sound with non-passthrough playback I used a random sample file from https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples: "DTS-HD...

> Can you try setting your sink to 2.0 mode and see if the files play properly? 2.0: ok 3.0: broken 4.0: ok 5.0: broken My setup does not include...

> Also: What is selected / chosen on current v21? Similar ALSA sink channel returned? ``` 2024-04-14 18:57:28.088 T:24945 info : Starting Kodi (21.0 (21.0.0) Git:20240414-nogitfound). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit...

> Is that ffmpeg 6.1.1 on top of the proposed changes or on master? The kodi binary which is linked to ffmpeg 6.1.1 uses unpatched v21.0-Omega code. The kodi binary...

This patch applied on top of kodi v21.0-Omega branch and linked to ffmpeg 6.1.1 produces working audio.

> Thanks. so most likely a regression in version 7. So I need to bisect ffmpeg... Or would the time be better spend in removing UNKNOWN1 from the detected channel...

> In ffmpeg 6.1.1 you don't have UNKNOWN1 in the channel layout? I do, UNKNOWN1 is present, see https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/24972#issuecomment-2054177054 But multi channel audio (passthrough and non-passthrough) is not broken with...

fixed by https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/pull/379

Same here: https://community.volumio.org/t/volumio2-equalizer-plugin/6376/167 https://community.volumio.org/t/volumio-simple-eq-no-sound/39504

Seeing a similar problem on another platform, was there ever a solution to the problem? My libc is built without locale support but libiconv is present and kodi.bin is linked...