Raspberry Pi 5 1 Audio Output

I did some tests trying to make 5 1 audio work on a pi about a year ago and found that at that time none of the operating systems for the raspberry pi would do 5 1 audio except for one that specifically was intended for media center use i m thinking it was probably osmc.

Raspberry pi 5 1 audio output. This is a good troubleshooting step to confirm it s not the image or old settings conflicts causing the issue. Afaik raspberry pi supports 5 1 audio via hdmi but the problem is that i m not sure how to connect the speakers i m using right now especially since i d need to use an hdmi to dvi cable to. Before i switched to the pi 2 i had this exact same set up and everything worked fine on a pc set up as a media center. It can carry compressed multichannel audio that uses two channels for transport ac3 and dts.

My connection is as follows all via hdmi. Playing a sound file encoded in dolby digital 5 1 is doable with raspberry pi 2 s quad core processor that runs at 900mhz. The latest version is called raspberry pi 4 model b or rpi4 and includes performance and architectural improvements over its predecessors. The raspberry pi rpi is a pocket sized 35 single board computer that s been around since 2011.

Hdmi 1 and 2 if present and a headphone jack. Crucially an idle cpu is what we want whenever a computer is anywhere near our audio system. 2017 08 04 14 25 greyskies wrote. In this instructable a media player called mplayer will be used to decode sound encoded in dolby digital 5 1 and send the 6 channels of audio to an alsa virtual device.

If your hdmi monitor or tv has built in speakers the audio can be played over the hdmi cable but you can switch it to a set of headphones or other speakers plugged into the headphone jack. Or it could be that your settings have been set to 2 0 in which case you d just need to go into your settings to tell the pi3 to output 5 1. My goal is to use 5 diy shotgun microphones with electret microphones being connected to a rpi that records and encodes to something like ac3 or at least 5 or 6 wav files i don t need the low frequencies in the 1 but it s nice to have. You can switch between these modes at any time.

I want to record audio for 5 1 surround sound. There s an audio icon you can select right click to choose the audio output device. The rpi is. The raspberry pi has up to three audio output modes.

Optical only supports 2 channels. No this is wrong. You must set number of channels to 5 1 to use optical toslink. Pi 2 smart tv 5 1 receiver the reason i want this set up is i don t always use my 5 1 system so i don t want to have to turn it on off every time i use osmc.