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Smart Box No Sound
Anniel
30-06-2016
I am in the Caribbean on holiday for a while in case any answer needs me to be on UK Entertainment.

The Smart Box is working and I have good picture on Channels, but there is no sound. We also use Apple TV on this TV and sound is OK when using that service.

I have tried switching off the Smart Box and reconnecting, but still no joy.

Can someone give me any advice on this frustrating problem?
chrisjr
30-06-2016
What Smart box?

How is it connected to the TV (eg SCART, HDMI or phono leads)?

What Audio Output format is it set to?

Need a bit more detail before anyone can give a definitive answer.
Anniel
30-06-2016
The box is a T8 Smart Box. I have no other information on it. . It is connected with an HDMI cable.. The Digital Audio Output is HDMI pass through.

I was able to use it when I was visiting about 6 months ago and do not think anyone has used it a lot. I cannot find any more details about the actual box, but we use Kodi to watch TV programmes
Anniel
30-06-2016
The box is a T8 Smart Box. I have no other details. It is connected to TV with an HDMI cable. The audio output is HDMI pass through.

Sorry not to have more information, but it did work on s previous visit.
chrisjr
30-06-2016
Can you change the Audio Output at all? See if it has an option such as PCM, LPCM, Stereo or similar. I suspect it is outputting a format the TV doesn't like. Forcing it to output plain vanilla stereo should work, if of course it has that option.
Anniel
01-07-2016
No I cannot find a setting that I can change. The sound is fine on all Channels in our local package and Apple TV also works well.

HDMI pass through is enabled. I have opened Kodi, gone into systems but as I have little technical ability I simply do not know how to fix the problem!
chrisjr
01-07-2016
There is a Kodi Wiki here

http://kodi.wiki/view/Audio_settings

That shows the various Audio settings available. This is accessed from the main page of Kodi click on Settings and then System.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Settings

Try setting Enable Passthrough to OFF and see if that has any effect.
Anniel
01-07-2016
Thanks for that information. Will try it out a bit later and will tell you if it works.

I do appreciate your advice
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