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2016-09-17, 15:10
(This post was last modified: 2016-09-17, 15:23 by timstephens24.)
Using the latest nightly all that would happen is Kodi would crash on the Shield, but using the one from the 5th (kodi-20160905-06588de-master-armeabi-v7a.apk) works great with passthrough.
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I don't know if a Kodi developer will be willing to help and test for official Kodi or a sideline Kodi project perhaps with a few test builds?
It might help with other devices that also use IEC pass-through.
I can ask users to provide logs with their testing and send feedback back to the manufacturer if there is something on the software side that need changes again. The java/jni changes for IEC 61937 was done correctly.
Some manufacturers implemented IEC Pass-through(from Android N) and backported it to Marshmallow and Lollipop.
All the audio formats like these work AC3, EAC3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD with Kodi 16.1 and a few extra commits.
But on Kodi 17 betas there are currently no sound or white noise with IEC 61937 pass-through on Marshmallow and Lollipop.
I don't know if the checks for SDK>23 in Kodi 17 can be modified to be SDK >=SDK22 for IEC 61937 in a test build perhaps to get logs.
It will be a while before Android N comes to more devices, but if a test build/project can't be made for IEC 61937 lower than Android N, it is totally fine also.
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We already tried the Nexus and it couldn't