I have a Apple TV 4K on the latest stable release of tvOS; Infuse Pro 5. I’ve adjusted my audio settings as recommended:
Infuse’s Audio Output option set to Passthrough.
Apple TV’s Settings > Video and Audio > Reduce Loud Sounds is turned off
I’ve also tried setting Infuse to Auto, experiencing the same results.
All files start playing fine, but randomly throughout playback 10-20 mins or so, the audio goes fuzzy. Some files play through completely OK once, then the next time go fuzzy. I believe the files all have a DTS-MA track.
I’ve uploaded a sample file. Yes, only a certain set of files from the same source/encoding configuration exhibit the behavior. I believe these worked appropriately in Infuse 4, but I only had Infuse 4 with my latest receiver for a short time before upgrading to 5.
This is happening to me too on some DD files, specifically tbbt series 11 so far, every few minutes the audio becomes just a cracking noise. If I stop and continue its ok for a few minutes more, then happens again
Just tried playing the file that was failing every few minutes, this time with the audio set to ‘Auto’ instead, and it played the rest of the way through without failing. Will test some more on other files, but it does seem better with that setting.
Out of curiousity, how does infuse process the audio for the Auto setting? Passthrough is fairly obvious, but what’s it doing for Auto? decoding and re-encoding?
Got it, makes sense. Hadnt noticed the lack of DTS light on receiver popping up. Its fine tho, makes no difference where the decoding is done. I’ll have to check closely on the receiver panel tho, as it looks like it is still lighting up the DD signal for DD sources, where I’d expect it to just show LPCM for all. But thanks for the info and pointer, great info to have. Possibly slightly confused by the atv outputting to TV over HDMI, and then the TV outputting to receiver via optical. But seems good so far