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You're right about "best match", it usually just makes performance worse. Above, I just posted a random config that worked with a certain movie without dropouts at a certain time. So you all can forget about that post.

But actually, I found out quite a lot in the meantime about my problem.

I noticed the dropouts never happened on PAL DVDs. With PAL movies, Kodi usually sets 50hz for them. Other movies are set to 24hz or 60hz. Especially the 60hz ones produced the dropouts.

Right now, I just set fixed 50hz in the systems menu and so far they seem to be gone with all movies. Even with the worst culprits from before, no drop.

Fun fact: A PAL DTS movie worked like charm right from the beginning on my receiver. And my LG shouldn't be able to passthrough DTS via optical, it never did with my BluRay and my Playstation.

But with Kodi/Firestick it worked. The "raw" method, perhaps? I'll just test some more movies if this stays clear all the time, maybe we won't need the debug log.

Every new issue demands a Debug Log. It's not something optional. And yeah I "know" that I am right - cause I am the co-author of ActiveAE ... and once again: Best Match does absolutely, totally nothing concerning performance ... it's a way to tell AE to find the best sink combination on every track change. But with PT the sink needs to be reopened in PT mode anyways, therefore no matter what you set there (besides fixed that forces PT to be disabled) nothing will change for PT.

And yes: The PCM hack fools the TV ... as long it does not try to do volume controlling it might work. It's a hack. Especially for your 29.97i / 60 hz blurays most likely SW decoding will be used and the FireTV is too slow decoding them.

Finally: It's as good as it gets with v17. If you want further improvements, use v18 nightlies and post debuglogs in your very own thread. Remember: DTS will never come back as FireTV people refuse to support the available and perfectly working IEC API: https://developer.android.com/reference/...G_IEC61937