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Had a quick question for this group. Thinking about getting a firestick or firecube. Been running Kodi on a windows Zotac machine for years. I was wondering if you can access native firestick apps from within Kodi on a firestick? Pretty sure this was possible if using an android device. Also am currently using IPTV from within Kodi. Just wondering what that looked like on a firestick as I saw some posts that said it might be an issue. Thanks in advance.
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Yes, you can add any app to access/open from within Kodi.
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Thanks for the advice everyone. Picked up a firecube today. Seems to work great except, any video I play that's on my network stops after a few seconds. AVI, MKV, MP4, all doing the same thing. Not sure what's going on. Tried playing videos in VLC and they work fine on the firecube. Thoughts?
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Can Kodi of Fire TV be set to convert DTS and TrueHD Atmos to LPCM? I currently use Passthrough / 2 ch / Enable Dolby Digital transcoding to handle DTS content to a Sonos Arc. Sonos is planning to add LPCM support this year.
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Yes - just disable Passthrough and set the appropriate number of channels. Also take care: Amazon decided to output everything multi channel as DD+ in their great wisdom. You either need kodi v19 or my fritschfiretv version to workaround this. (They cannot cope with multi channel float, which is why it works in those version - in kodi Leia we removed multi channel float support cause of the cube ;-))
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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2020-08-09, 18:06
(This post was last modified: 2020-08-10, 15:10 by DB42.)
I'm having an unusual problem. I have my 4K firestick plugged into my AVR (Denon AVR S540BT) via HDMI, then a HDMI cable to my ARC HDMI port on my TV (Vizio E65-F0). I'm running Kodi 18.8 fritschfiretv build July 30 2020. When I play a HD10 movie (it'll display HD10 at the top of the screen) I'll get no sound UNLESS I turn off the AVR, wait to see the movie play with the AVR off, then turn on the AVR. After turning on the AVR I'll get sound and the movie will play fine.
In Kodi I have Audio output as AudioTrack(IEC) Kodi IEC packer, # of channels- 7.1, Best match,passthrough enabled, DD, DD+, DTS, and DTS-HD receiver enabled.
When I play a non HD10 movie I don't get this problem. Any ideas?