[lucius]

I have a Fire stick. I've been using the shitty 17.1 build for awhile - but all of a sudden dolby passthrough stopped working a few days ago. I also tried upgrading to 17.3 shitty build.. still doesnt work. i dont get static (like i do with the non-shitty build and dolby), just no audio at the start then it starts to play in stereo.

Did amazon push an update to the fire stick that further broke passthrough?

Sometimes this same thing happens to me on my Sony Android 7 TV. If the problem is the same - I fix it by playing some DD/DTS title from stock Video player or Netflix, which are able to passthrough it correctly. Once I do this, next time I open the Kody 17.3 shitty version, the sound is back and with passthrough. This is due to the passthrough hack used in the shitty version of Kody. Please test on your own, I hope it will help you too.