Samsung EH5300 - Static through PCM Digital-out playing MKV

Hi All,

I have a D6000 and I just bought an EH5300 for my bedroom.

Alas, the EH5300 only has digital-out so I had to connect it to a small box that converts Digital to analog so I can connect my wireless earphones. Digital-out is set to PCM.

I can hear great when I play mp4 files (HDTV downloads) but I hear static when I play 720p MKV files.

The difference in audio formats are:
mp4 - 2 channels at 48 Khz
MKV - AC-3 in 6 channels at 48 Khz.

Can you offer an idea why it doesn't work with MKV (the TV won't convert to PCM for Digital-out?) and if I can use transcoding to downgrade just the audio to 2 channels?

Apart from that, it works great with Serviio and I will be happy to see an E series profile soon (Currently I use the C/D one). Attached is a Device Spy output.

Thanks!
/Shmulik.

OK,

I read the profiles article and educated myself a bit with codecs/containers/etc.

I hope I got it right:

  Code:

<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="mp3" forceStereo="true">
                 <Matches container="matroska" aCodec="ac3"/>
                 <Matches container="mp4" aCodec="aac"/>
 </Video>

I now hear correctly through the earphones.
I'll be happy though if someone more knowledgeable can have a look and say if it's the best way to do this.

Thanks!
/Shmulik.

[zip]

that looks ok. you are transcoding aac audio from the two containers to stereo mp3. If you want to keep the multichannel you could transcode to ac3 instead.