Can you help me choose the right audio settings?

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I have this Yamaha Receiver and I’m running OpenPHT on a Windows PC which is also running my Plex server.
What should my audio settings be?
WASAPI? Direct Sound?
Stereo Upmix?
Enable Passthrough? If so, what settings?

Thanks

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IMHO ‘passthrough’ is the best option for you.
Connect your plex client to your receiver with HDMI, then from there to your screen.

A guide through the various audio settings of OpenPHT/Rasplex (it’s [almost] the same thing) can be found here: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/181255/rasplex-guide-to-audio-settings-updated/p1#top

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@OttoKerner said:
IMHO ‘passthrough’ is the best option for you.
Connect your plex client to your receiver with HDMI, then from there to your screen.

A guide through the various audio settings of OpenPHT/Rasplex (it’s [almost] the same thing) can be found here: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/181255/rasplex-guide-to-audio-settings-updated/p1#top

I saw the guide here, and I enabled Passthrough, but what should my main Audio output device be? The more universal Direct Sound or the WASAPI? So the Passthrough is the default and then it falls back to the Audio output device if it doesn’t passthrough?

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@scottocs11 said:
I saw the guide here, and I enabled Passthrough, but what should my main Audio output device be?

HDMI

The more universal Direct Sound or the WASAPI?

I don’t think there is a choice once you switched to HDMI.

So the Passthrough is the default and then it falls back to the Audio output device if it doesn’t passthrough?

There is no fallback. The interface HDMI is always used.
Of course you must check the ‘supported’ (supported by your receiver) audio formats like explained in the older guide.
And uncheck the unsupported formats. These will be decoded within OpenPHT to either 2 channel or 6 channel PCM, but they will still be sent through the HDMI port to your AVR, not to a different sound interface.

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I have both Direct Sound and WASAPI when using HDMI.

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@scottocs11 said:
I have both Direct Sound and WASAPI when using HDMI.

Try both, use whichever works for you. :slight_smile: