- May 5, 2014
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I'm setting up a media PC to replace separates. Currently I'm comparing three solutions: XBMC/TVHeadend on OpenELEC, XBMC/ArgusTV on Win8.1 and MediaPortal/ArgusTV on Win8.1.
One of the tests is playing a set of sample files which have between them pretty much all the audio formats covered. Some of these are speaker placement tests. They all run perfectly on XBMC, both Linux and Windows. The ones that VLC can play also are OK. But yesterday when I played them with MediaPortal, the channel steering was completely messed up, with the centre channel coming out of front right, rear right coming out of front left - bizarre.
Even bizarre-er is that today, after a couple of reboots and a spell using OpenELEC, I play the samples again and now they are all fine! There is one .mp4 which won't play, but the rest get the channel steering correct.
How weird is that?
One of the tests is playing a set of sample files which have between them pretty much all the audio formats covered. Some of these are speaker placement tests. They all run perfectly on XBMC, both Linux and Windows. The ones that VLC can play also are OK. But yesterday when I played them with MediaPortal, the channel steering was completely messed up, with the centre channel coming out of front right, rear right coming out of front left - bizarre.
Even bizarre-er is that today, after a couple of reboots and a spell using OpenELEC, I play the samples again and now they are all fine! There is one .mp4 which won't play, but the rest get the channel steering correct.
How weird is that?