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Your Android box does not support the passthrough of EAC3, DTS-HD or TrueHD using the standard audio API's from Google.
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any solution or suggestion to overcome this?
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a firmware upgrade of your box could add support for these formats, but I doubt you'll get a new firmware for this box (like it's the case for almost all rather cheap Android boxes out there). If you only use this box for Kodi and don't actually need Android, you could check if there is a way to put LibreElec on it, as the chipset might be supported there (but better ask upfront, it's just a guess that it's supported)
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thank u sir for your kind support. I purchase this from xtermer and their support is very poor.
It is written that the box processor is QuadCore Amlogic S812-H (w/dolby+dts) cortex-a9 upto 2.0Ghz
8Core GPU: Mali-450
Video output support: 4K UHD video playback
Audio: HDMI 1.4, SPDF
So any firmware suitable for this processor please tell.
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(This post was last modified: 2018-02-04, 14:29 by da-anda.)
just to be really really really sure, you are NOT using the optical out (aka SPDIF) to connect your Android box to the AVR, but you only use the HDMI cable, right? Please confirm this. If your box is only connected via HDMI to your AVR, please make absolutely sure your main audio device in Android's system settings is set to HDMI and not SPDIF.
IF you are using the optical out/SPDIF, then you won't get any HD audio, as this is not possible over this connection. The only thing you can do in this case is to set your speakers back to 2.0 (required for SPDIF !!!), enable AC3 and DTS passthrough again AND enable AC3-transcoding. With transcoding enabled, you will at least get 5.1 AC3 from your HD audio formats instead of just stereo
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I have optical out connected and I removed it. now the only connected cable is hdmi and audio-out set to hdmi. Now sound is coming via hdmi, but only 5.1 sound and speaker-out showing in the avr-display is also 6 speaker LCR/SL-SR/SW like. I think need new firmware
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When playing the file open the OSD menu that overlays the video go to Audio setting and make sure the selected audio stream is the TrueHD one. If still not working then provide screenshots of the settings in System -> Audio