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RVD26 · 2017-04-11, 04:36

Is it possible to get HD audio (Doldy TrueHD or DTS-MA) on the Amazon Fire TV (2nd gen) with Kodi 17.1?

If not, can SPMC handle it?

ilovemymac · 2017-04-11, 04:56

I dont know for sure but i believe it will not passthrough. Last i knew only the Shield did but i think i read some other devices do now. If it does i have never gotten it to on my system.

wrxtasy · (This post was last modified: 2017-04-11, 06:13 by wrxtasy.)

Hint - go into System Info page when using Kodi and jot down the Android API level the FireTV2 is using.

Then cross reference that number with what is written in this post:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=289735

Short answer No - Both Krypton and SPMC.

However I do believe you can decode HD Audio to Lossless Multichannel PCM Audio and output that.

sirmedia · 2017-09-23, 00:34

Which "shitty" Kodi build is recommended for DTS and 4K video playback on AFTV 2?

**fritsch** · 2017-09-23, 15:48

No shitty build is ever recommended!

sirmedia · 2017-09-23, 17:42

(2017-09-23, 15:48)fritsch Wrote: No shitty build is ever recommended!

I understand, but getting past that, which one is known to work as best as it can on AFTV 2 ?

**fritsch** · 2017-09-23, 18:10

Latest... they are all the same.

sirmedia · (This post was last modified: 2017-09-23, 19:24 by sirmedia.)

Yes but there are different flavors that I don't understand: shitty, notsoshitty, dtsshitty, etc. Not sure which flavor is the least shitty for AFTV 2.

**fritsch** · 2017-09-23, 20:34

plain shitty others were for testing only

sirmedia · 2017-09-24, 05:42

Man this is confusing. AFTV 2nd gen box is 64-bit, but there are no "shitty" builds under android/arm64-v8a
Are we not supposed to install arm64-v8a on AFTV2? Or is that box not so shitty compared to AFTV1?

**fritsch** · 2017-09-24, 09:13

Use the 32 bit build. 64 is useless as the box is too slow doing sw decoding anyways.