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Help please
Just purchased an Amazon fire tv cube last week and I'm having trouble getting kodi to work right.
I cannot connect my phone and use kore or even the fire app to be able toncopy and paste text into kodi.
I'm an experienced user of kodi but this is bugging me.
remote connection server fail to start, then kodi closes down.
I go to services,control and try to turn on allow remote control via http and also allow remote control from applications on other systems.
I've uninstalled kodi numerous times and even tried nightly and even kodi 20. still the same outcome.
I've turns my VPN off incase that was causing the issue. I don't know what else to do.
Thanks
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Sorry this has probably been answered loads of times but can I get dd+ with atmos from kodi. Have tried to follow the instructions but my receiver shows an atmos encoded 7.1 file as dd+ dsur.
Can get dd+ atmos from prime app (jack Ryan).
Using kodi leia latest, iec raw.,ac3 encoding
Thanks for any help
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Little late on the thread about audio pass through but only recently I've got a 4k Fire Stick.
I'd like to add that I was also frustrated by the fact that pass through doesn't work on the 4k Stick, because I have another non-4k Stick, the 3rd gen HD stick, and on that one the pass-through works perfectly!
After some comparison and testing I believe the main reason for no pass-through on the 4K stick is the fire OS version. The 4k has Fire OS 6 (Android 7), while the HD stick got updated to Fire OS 7 (Android 9). Both stick have pretty much the same hardware, same processor and RAM, so probably Amazon decided to keep the 4k stick on Fire OS 6 due to performance reasons, mainly the low amount of RAM, while the HD stick works just fine with Fire OS 7 (albeit a little slower on the interface). I believe the current version of the 4k stick will never be update to Fire OS 7, or it should have happened by now.
In the end, I'll keep the 4K stick since, like others have mentioned, it works with 7.1 PCM which is fine.
To sum it up:
Fire Stick 4k -> Fire OS 6 -> No Pass Through
Fire Stick HD -> Fire OS 7 -> Pass Through works flawlessly
Ps.: Fire Stick 3rd Gen and the Fire Stick Lite are the same device, the only difference is the remote included.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see a new 4K Stick before the holidays. It's definitely due for an update.
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I don't think real pass through is possible with the current version state. What comes out as DD or DD+ is re-encoded by the stick, I came to that conclusion when trying to play a 7.1 DD+ and it came out as 5.1.
After many tests this is the config that worked to get a pure 7.1 PCM stream.
Fire TV Audio setting : Best Match
Kodi Audio Setting :
Audio Decoder
Audio output device : AudioTrack(IEC), Kodi IEC packer (recommended)
Number of channels : 7.1 or 5.1
Output configuration : Fixed (this is important to force the PCM stream)
Limit sampling rate (kHz): 96.0 (this is important to force the PCM stream)
Send low volume noise: OFF (this is important to stop the Fire Stick from crashing and rebooting)
The pass through section will disappear with the Fixed configuration above, don't worry, it doesn't work anyway.
After changing anything on the audio settings page always restart Kodi before playing something!
BONUS: 24Hz
I also got 24Hz working on my setup, thou it some time gets laggy and skip frames. (so I mostly don't use it)
Go to Fire TV Display settings and change the resolution to any other option, then when to it shows the confirmation dialog hit CANCEL so it returns to AUTO! That's it!
The option to Match Original Frame Rate should be ON.
This must be done after every reboot.
Only Prime Video and Kodi seams to switch frame rates when playing though.