use cavern to remap spekaer layout in lpcm?

[ManoharOfficial]

I have a HDMI 7.1 Audio Decoder (https://www.gtechaudios.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=590)
Would I be able to configure a 5.1.2 setup with it+cavern?
Remap the side surround as height channels, and use cavern to re-encode the height data to 7.1 lpcm?
AFAIK the "decoder" is just a glorified lpcm converter
if not, is there ANY other way to get it?
playback device : Windows 10 laptop
playback software : Kodi, Pot player
speakers : 7sttelite 1sub custom built

Also, cavernize gui refuses to launch on my pc (i've reinstalled various vaerisons of .net over 2 days. no luch :( )

[VoidXH]

Cavern decodes the Atmos streams to PCM, and the default 5.1.2 layout is exactly what you need, sides become the heights.

For the launch issue, please try to open it from a console, and paste the error displayed there here. The error might also be present in the Windows event log.

[ManoharOfficial]

Opening cavernizeGUI via cmd worked :) yay!
Thank you so much! Converting my whole library now (should probably make a second image of my entire original library)
Is it possible to do the side to height re-encoding on the fly/real-time? (sorry if noob question)

[VoidXH]

If you mean changing the channels, it's possible by making for example 9.1.6 exports and remixing it later with FFmpeg, but it's easier to keep the original track, it's smaller.

[ManoharOfficial]

I mean, play a 7.1 atmos movie in kodi or potplayer and real-time re-encode side channels as height channels. (Without converting first in cavernizeGUI, asking for too much?)

[VoidXH]

That's not yet possible.

[ManoharOfficial]

dang. in any case, thank you so much for the project. this is the only thing that brings me closer to atmos (other than those darn expensive avr's).
Hoping 'real-time' could be implemented in kodi as a plugin or something similar 🤞