Snakeoil OS - is 7.1 multichannel HDMI audio supported

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Hi @"agent_kith" 

Is multichannel HDMI audio supported  for use with an AVR ?

With either RPi4 or x64 PC ?

I currently use HQPlayer NAA with Windows for this but would prefer to ditch Windows even though works.

Prefer headless linux solution 

I use it for stereo listening with pair of 3-way DSP crossover and room correction plus sub, so 7 channels 

cheers

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I did a lot of digging to find a working headless Linux solution and it appears on picoreplayer is known to be stable and technical reason is given below in screenshot, see highlighted part:

http://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.p...0#pid24670

The above is regarding RPi HDMI multichannel support but I would be equally happy with x64 PC support too .

I have a fanless Intel Atom based NUC type PC that I could use headlessly in the same way as RPi4.

So either RPi4 or x64 PC is fine, whichever is easiest.

Reason I can't use picoreplayer right now even though multiple people have it working is it doesn't support HQPlayer NAA but I know snakeoil OS does

I have Win10 running HQPlayer NAA fine with the Denon 4308 AVR - 7 channels x PCM192kHz for DSP crossover and room correction (using 65k tap FIR filters created by Audiolense X0)

But I hate booting Windows each time so am looking for headless Linux solution

Thanks in advance