https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208269
Bug ID: 208269 Summary: Polaris HDMI passthrough for TrueHD and DTS-HD does not work without snoop enabled, which leads to clipping Product: Drivers Version: 2.5 Kernel Version: Tested on 5.1.16 and 5.6.18 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Tree: Mainline Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: Video(DRI - non Intel) Assignee: drivers_video-dri@kernel-bugs.osdl.org Reporter: brady.w.clark@gmail.com Regression: No
Motherboard: Asus P8H61-M LX3 R2.0 CPU: Celeron G1610 RAM: 4GB GPU: Yeston RX550-4G D5 LP (POLARIS11) Receiver: Denon x6500h
Tested in Kodi on 5.1.16 (LibreELEC 9.2.3) and on 5.6.18 (Fedora 32 with Pulseaudio disabled)
Out of the box sound is crystal clear but passthrough does not work for TrueHD and DTS-HD, receiver does not show the codec and there is no audio at all with TrueHD and DTS-HD passthrough enabled. Other codecs (AC3, DTS) passthrough fine.
Capabilities seem to be detected correctly (contents of \proc\asound\card0\eld#0.3 attached).
If I set "options snd_hda_intel snoop=1", passthrough for all codecs works as expected, but I get horrible clipping with passthrough audio, and Kodi UI clicks repeat.
alsa-test.sh results with and without snoop enabled are attached.
To note: This hardware combination works as expected in Windows, and with an nVidia GT 1030 this setup does all HDMI passthrough correctly in LibreElec as well, although it does not, of course, allow HEVC hardware decoding in LibreELEC.