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Wow, I also have a lg e series and the dv logo pops up and this is going through my denon.
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rizu
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Just tested the LPCM workaround on current firmware (6.2.8.1) and Kodi Matrix 19.1.
Can confirm that:
- Passthrough settings don't seem to do anything on Kodi with latest FireTV
- Setting FireTV Surround Sound setting to PCM and Kodi's audio to 5.1 without passthrough does give me lossless 5.1 LPCM and Kodi did decode HD audio for it. Just setting these values didn't first work though, I kept getting 2ch PCM sound at first. Rebooting FireTV stick after setting the values did the trick.
- Doing same as above but using 7.1 doesn't output any audio from the side channels, only from front and back surround ones.
- Can set Dolby Digital+ setting to FireTV Surround Sound option and it will transcode everything to DD+ from kodi. Didn't test if it gave 7.1 or just 5.1.
I'm kinda bummed about all this because I didn't realize the whole passthrough disabling part and let Amazon update the stick to latest (which blows that efuse that prevents downgrading firmware the stick afterwards) so I'm now stuck with either DD+ or 5.1 LPCM for kodi. Would be lovely if there was something that could be done to at least run 7.1 LPCM properly.
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Am I missing something, or is this really not capable of decoding VC-1 in hardware? (I'm using Matrix 19.1, stable release).
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Is Dolby Vision supposed to work in Kodi 19.1 on AFTV4K? I have a file that when played by Kodi on AFTV it has the green/purple colors and the TV Dolby Vision notification does not come on. The same file plays fine on the same AFTV via the Plex player and Dolby Vision comes on on the TV. Also, same file plays in Kodi on the Google TV Chromecast.
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Stable release (may 19.1) it's the best version ?
Thank you
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So I think this is best audio setting for me, at this time.
Fire TV Stick 4k : OS 6.2.8.1
Kodi : 19.1 stable
Fire TV Audio setting : Best Match
Kodi Audio Setting :
Audio Decoder
Audio output device : AudioTrack(IEC) (recommended)
Number of channels : 7.1
Output configuration : Best match
Audio Passthrough
Allow passthrough : ON
Passthrough output device : AudioTrack(RAW)
AC3 and E-AC3 capable receiver : ON
With this setting, Dolby Digital(AC3) and Dolby Digital plus(EAC3, even with Atmos) will passthrough.
Any other codecs, like DTS, DTS-HD, Dolby True HD, AAC, LPCM will be decoded to multichannel LPCM, up to 7.1ch.