[ubiytza]

I have a 2017 Shield.
I have it connected through an HDMI extractor (VHD-UHAE2) to Vizio p75-C1 and Onkyo TX NR636 AVR.
The reason for this extractor is because this AVR is lacking HDMI 2.0a required for HDR. So its like a splitter that's sending video to the TV and audio to the AVR.
When playing any lossy audio the AVR is able to properly see either ACR or DTS.
However, when playing anything lossless it goes automatically to PCM 2.0
I have the settings in the Kodi v17 per the first post in this topic - but its not helping.

Initially i had the extractor properly send HDR10 to my TV, but i could not get the audio to work properly (as described above). Initially i thought the issue with the extractor, but their support was swearing that they don't do any decoding.
And after reading a bunch of forums, i tend to agree, that the issue is somewhere in the nvidia shield setting.
Could a bad HDMI cable be doing this?
Oh, and now, I am not getting HDR sent to the TV as well. In display and Audio setting of the Shield, the option to choose 4K with 10bit is gone.
So many components, i am not even which support needs to figure this out....