2020-12-15, 02:20
bought a nvidia shield pro to replace my 4k fire stick today. plugged into the same exact cable that feeds my vizio sound bar before going ARC to TV. loaded up kodi beta straight from google play store and amazing it runs at full resolution unlike my Sony TV's android interface running 1080p. I'm able to run pass-through audio again but not through Kodi's IEC packer, I have to switch over to Android's packer. I will eventually have to get a newer sound bar to take advantage of all these new HD formats beyond DTS & DD 5.1. What is nice is that this old vizio sound bar pick out the lower level surround audio from an HD stream, like some TrueHD will trigger Dolby 5.1 and some DTS-HD will trigger DTS 5.1. Some more complex audio tracks just freak out the sound bar all together, but much better than what the fire stick was letting out. good luck you all with your fire sticks. maybe amazon did this to cause faults on all the devices being used with illegal streams on kodi