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(2021-04-04, 18:09)chicco73 Wrote: (2021-04-03, 19:03)Shasarak Wrote: Question for those who have owned both a fire stick 4K and a fire cube: is the image quality any better on the cube?
I don´t know which TV you have ... but I can say, unfortunately, that my oled webos internal player is MILES better image quality compared to Fire Stick 4K...
Yes the Fire Stick image quality is really not very good; that's why I'm wondering if the Fire Cube might be better. (TV's internal player is not an option for me, partly because the TV introduces an unacceptable level of audio lag - the sound lagging behind the picture - and partly because that bypasses my Lumagen video processor).
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So I finally received the firetv update today after months and months of no 5.1 on Kodi (running 18.3) and as others have said nothing has been fixed with passthrough and I’m still getting stereo at best on my all singing and dancing Atmos 5.1.2 set up.
To say I am gutted is an understatement as I’ve been praying for this update for ages now.
I’m finally admitting defeat and I’m guessing it’s a case of upgrading to Kodi 19 and reinstalling all my addons (a good few hours work for a basic Kodi user like me) or ditching the Firestick altogether and going for a different hardware setup altogether and the cost that involves.
Could anyone please breakdown the easiest way to upgrade to a nightly(?) Kodi 19 version and if I could somehow copy my current addons over at all pretty please?
I know the experts here could probably write a very quick explanation instead of me watching YouTube guides and googling for hours on end. I’d be very grateful if so as DD+ even with no DTS would be a godsend right now. Thanks in advance
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What works for me to get 5.1 (all I have). Set the Firestick to stereo only, set Kodi to 5.1 channels and disable passthrough.
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I can confirm with the NEW update that passthrough work partially on KODI 19 (only 5.1 and only with IEC RAW through ARC).
DTS and Atmos demo track still 2.0 for me...
(VLC passthrough not work because you cannot change to Android RAW packer)
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AFTV gets worse and worse. The new UI is confusing and slow. Great job Amazon!
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With the new update I can now select PCM in the fire settings and then without enabling passthrough on Kodi I seem to get multi in into my AVR. I’m unsure if this means I am getting 5.1 but it certainly sounds a lot different than the stereo I was getting before.
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2021-04-10, 18:16
(This post was last modified: 2021-04-10, 18:17 by User 309201.)
(2021-04-10, 13:48)chicco73 Wrote: PCM mean 2.0 only
With this setting the output is definitely in 5.1 channel PCM format, not 2.0. Whether it's the
correct 5.1 channel signal, I don't know.