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v17 already has correct pause bursts. If the IEC pcm hack builds and the normal builds don't produce PT sound for you, you have another issue. Something not related to kodi.

Edit: In your case, you have enabled "Adjust refreshrate" which causes issues and is therefore not suggested on Android at all. Second the log shows mediacodec issues after refreshrate switching. Try with a sample that works without mediacodec, e.g.: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5572...20Test.avi (disable mediacodec and mediacodec (surface)) try with

that build: http://mirrors.kodi.tv/test-builds/andro...bi-v7a.apk
and with a normal kodi v17 build with the proper API

By default "MediaCodec" and "MediaCodec (Surface)" are enabled and "Adjust display refresh rate" is disabled.
At your suggestion in an earlier post I disabled "MediaCodec (Surface)", but must have misinterpreted part of the information and enabled "Adjust display refresh rate".
Also I can tell you that playback of some video files with MediaCodec completely disabled on this device sucks. But to be fair, the testing I did was with it both enabled and disabled.
And the results were the same regardless, if pass-through worked with it enabled, it worked with disabled. And if pass-through did not work with enabled, it did not work with it disabled.

So here are the results;

kodi-20170118-e3c9330-shitty-armeabi-v7a.apk did not work.
kodi 17 rc4 test build log

kodi-17.0-Krypton_rc3-armeabi-v7a.apk did not work, and it shouldn't, there is no PCM pass-through hack.
kodi 17 rc3 log

kodi-20160901-ae5fc7c-master-armeabi-v7a.apk works.
kodi 17 beta2 log

So in conclusion, however the hack was implemented in the early Kodi 17 audio engine, it worked.
In the latest versions, not so much.
But on the bright side, re-disabling "Adjust display refresh rate" seems to have fixed the video playback issues I was experiencing.