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I have an Nvidia Shield. I have been using Kodi 16 for a long time and the audio passthrough always worked great to my amplifier.
Then I decided it was time to try out the Kodi 17 Beta. So I updated and right after the update passthrough was broken. I hadn't changed any settings.
My amplifier used to have on its display "DTS" or "Dolby Digital" etc. when I played a video file. Now it just says PCM for everything
No matter what I do I cant get it working again. Is this normal for the beta? Is there an issue with passthrough?
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fritsch
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Do you have by chance "Sync Playback to Display" enabled? If yes - this will plain disable passthrough as of v17.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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Yes that was it, it is working now, thank you so much!
This could potentially happen to lots of people, hopepfully they will find this thread
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If you read it will actually tell you that at the bottom of the setting page.
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I have a question though, will that "Adjust Display refresh rate" on Android affect Transcoding and/or passtrough?
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It will break Passthrough, cause no vendor has proper support for it. We just remove the display under Audiotrack's ass and it will survive or not. In short: Don't use it - if it works - it works by accident.
Kodi does not properly support it on android and vendors (like nvidia) don't care too much (we told them).
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2016-12-28, 12:08
(This post was last modified: 2016-12-28, 12:11 by fritsch.)
I just mailed with the nvidia guys five days ago ... (meaning: they more care for proper controller support and the second thing was broken mediacodec in livetv). So priority that they will fix something here is towards zero - but hey - they care - so let's just wait.
Besides that the kodi implementation of refreshrate switching is "best effort" ... and before someone that wants to fix it, fixes it - we should not fingerpoint towards the vendors, that's why I have written in at first position "kodi (on android) does not properly support it".
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.