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At least they seem to want to fix it.
Remember, if you want to hear it or not, Amazon does not sell a single bit of commercial stuff that would support DTS or even multi-channel PCM. They owe you exactly nothing. And - while it always sounds like a good tone, to blame kodi freetime developer people to not support some proprieatary crap, amazon, a company focussed on making revenue, does not care at all to support mediaplayer users that for sure won't buy their content and in their eyes misusing their "financially supported" boxes.
I personally had not expected that they fix anything at all, therefore I am positively surprised.
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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I must have missed something, but recently (at some point in the last couple of months?) majority of my AVI files (xvid codec) have stopped working on my stick. I used to use v18.9 (where its started freezing completely), but its the same with v19 (although it would just skip a second or two constantly instead of freezing). Is that due to amazon update? Thanks.
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I have a firestick tv 4k. It is plugged into an hdmi port on my new OLED TV. All audio is output from the TV to my Harmon Kardon DD processor via Toslink. I have the latest OS on the firestick and use it to run Kodi exclusively. I cannot get Kodi source to play DD 5.1. Best it will do is 2.1..no center or rear output. I came across a work around in the forums that is giving me dolby prologic 5.1. I get this by setting the firestick audio to stereo. My understanding from what I have read in the Kodi and Amazon forums is that Amazon's 6.2 7.7 OS upgrade caused this. Can anyone confirm this? If true, any idea when Amazon will fix.
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Regarding my previous post, I'm using Kodi 18.9......the version that allows specifying the RAW output. I'm pretty sure I understand the recommended audio setting for Kodi and am using it. Have tried using passthru and not, trying to get DD 5.1. No success.
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Hi everyone,
A few weeks ago, I posted about how my Ethernet wired firestick using the official Amazon Ethernet adaptor was choking (buffering) on certain 4K movies that were roughly 55GB and above. My server is a very old QNAP TS409 that only works through SMB.
A few of you recommended getting that cable matters gigabit Ethernet adapter.
It just arrived today and I’m happy to report that the movies that were problematic are working PERFECT! Thank you guys so much!
Hopefully this helps someone else out there.
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2021-03-06, 19:18
(This post was last modified: 2021-03-06, 19:22 by sirmedia.)
FWIW if anyone else runs into this: the upgrade from 18 to 19 reset the "This directory contains" setting to None for all my sources and all media stopped showing up. Took me a bit of time to figure out what was going on, I thought it was an NFS problem. I had to go through each source and set the correct type and scraper again. I assume we want to use the latest The Movie Database Python version for movies and TMDb TV Shows for shows? I wish I could uninstall the other versions so I don't get confused between them. Same thing happened on my CCGTV.
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Hi,
I updated to Kodi Matrix yesterday in order to update an add-on which has dependency to python3.
After the update, the add-on still complaints about unresolved dependency to python3.
Is Matrix in FireTV4K not switched to python3?
Anything I missed or need to do to enable python3?