[HolgerKuehn]

I'm using this HDMI Switch with toslink. On the shield and any recent official nightly 17.1 it's working just fine. Though you'll only get AC3/DTS 5.1 out of it, as TOSLINK is not designed for 7.1, Atmos or anyone of those newer formats (if I followed the NVidia Shield thread right).

Hi,

I have the same problem - v17.0 won't play DTS/DTS-CD media on android 6.0 TV Box using decoder of AVR. V16.1 playing DTS well but DTS-CD Media with higher speed....
Correct me if I'm wrong, if I'll use connected to Android TV Box (Amlogic based) some HDMI splitter to HDMI + SPDIF (optical) then I will be able to use my multichannel DTS media with decoders of AVRs and Passthrough mode in Kodi?

PS. I don't have AVRs with HDMI.... My old are all top of sound quality and superb. And I don't need it for movies... but for music (from digital media I prefer multichannel SACD and DTS over any other digital formats).

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Please read this whole thread. But as far as I can tell you from my own experience the following setup worked fine for me:

Amazon Fire TV with FW 5.0 and 5.2 did got me AC3 with transcoding DTS within the official builds
Nvidia Shield 2017 with Android 7 is working just fine with AC3 and DTS (without transcoding) using the official build

Thats the android based hardware I can tell you for sure. So I assume you should at least be fine using AC3 transcoding, but you should find some statements for Amlogic based devices in this thread (or at least the links thereof) as it came up several times.