I side loaded showbox and it worked for awhile. Then it started to mess up. It'll have all the background sound, but no voices. I uninstalled it and then downloaded it straight to my AFTV stick, installed again, but no good. I have tried using MX Player and the internal player, no good either.
Any advice?
could it be sending 5.1?
you could try setting the fire tv's dolby setting to stereo although it may or may not be able to downmix
ziddey said:
could it be sending 5.1?
you could try setting the fire tv's dolby setting to stereo although it may or may not be able to downmix
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It was the decoding part of the MX Player. I had to download the new Codec and install, then turn it to H/W+ decoding. Working now.
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I have been playing with HDMI out. Using official Samsung adapter EPL3FHU and TV Panasonic TH-42PX80E. So far I cannot get out audio consistently.
When connected first time, I had system sound off, so I could see picture, but no audio (form system) as expected. When playing movie with BSPlayer, VLC, or MX I got audio out of built-in speaker though (and not through TV).
Reconnected with system sound on, I could get system plonks and boings out of TV. Playing songs from Neutron was fine as well. Even playing original Samsung demo video via VLC produced sound on TV.
Then I tried one .mkv with DTS (which plays fine in BSPlayer with sound on internal speaker) and the sound through HDMI stopped working. Then I tried again Neutron, VLC, but I could not get even the apps that were working, working them again. System sounds are fine though.
And so far I was not able to recover.
It looks like there are some incompatibilities, probably between some players, sound formats which break one part of sound path (but not all, as system clicks are still transported correctly). And this break seems to be kind of permanent, until some reset. But simple reboot does not solve this.
I wonder what I might be missing.
I can partially reply to myself. The problem is that some players (it seems BSPlayer, and MX do that) cannot play DTS through HDMI (though BSPlayer can play it through internal speaker) and for some reason it resets volume settings for multimedia to zero (i.e. no sound). Once I realized that and "reenabled" volume for multimedia, it seems fine for Neutron, VLC and system sounds.
VLC can even play DTS through HDMI out, but for some reasons suffers from sound being out of sync with video.
So now the question remains, what is good video player, which can get out DTS through HDMI out.
Have you been able to get multichannel audio out HDMI?
Just tried both Gotham 13.2 and Kodi (14.0 alpha 3) on my new Fire TV. but same result:
- Playing MKVs (720p, 1080p, x.264 with DTS/MA => work ok, passthrough is enabled
- AVI files and MP4 files with audio tracks in MP3 or AAC => video ok, but no audio
I have played with the audio settings (passthrough on or off etc), but no effect.
Has someone seen this before ? I can't imagine my configuration is very unique:
Fire TV with latest firmware, XBMC/Kodi sideloaded via ADB. FireTV connected to Onkyo TX-NR636.
Hi, I have a similar problem with my setup Fire TV>Onkyo TX NR 626. Everything works fine until I play a file with DTS or DTS HD MA audio in it. Once i play this file, I get no navigation sounds, no sound from files with AAC and MP3 audio. If I come out of XBMC, there is no sound in any other apps in the fire tv. Below is how I can fix it.
1. Restart fire tv.
2. switch input on the AV receiver to something else and switch back.
3. Disable "DTS Capable Receiver" in XBMC audio settings.
There definitely seems to be a bug with XBMC and Onkyo receiver. I have posted in xbmc forum about the issue and there are other users who have this problem. Google the below and you will find my xbmc post.
Android - No navigation sounds after DTS playback on Amazon Fire TV
PS: I guess we both are in touch on the xbmc forum. Didn't notice your user id earlier.
I'm running Kodi Alpha 4 without any issues (just a few incompatible addons). I've resolved a lot of audio/video issues by changing some setting on the tv itself. You can check and make sure that your tv settings are up to snuff.
I rooted my Fire TV box and am running a pre-rooted 51.1.6.3_user_516012020 firmware.
Installed Kodi 15.2 and connected it to my NAS drive. Most of my movie library consist of audio in Dolby Digital and DTS. Never had an issue playing my movies over my previous modified WDTV Live box while connected to my Yamaha RX-V467 audio receiver using HDMI from box to receiver and receiver to TV. The receiver supports Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD.
Running Kodi I can get Dolby Digital Plus with no issues, but playing any movies that have DTS makes my receiver display PCM with only 2 channels. If I manually switch the receiver to DTS decoding, I don’t get any sound, not even that white noise that most people mention. The receiver displays “No Signal”. I have enabled/disabled the pass-through with no luck. I have audio channels set to 2. In the Fire TV settings, I have tried both auto and the manual DD+ over HDMI. I also tried using an optical cable while making sure I changed the audio setting in the Fire TV to recognize this change, but it also didn’t make any difference.
I thought I read somewhere that the native apps on the Fire TV support DD+ and DTS, so I opened a trial account with Netflix, selected the tier with HD and Ultra HD. I mean it’s free for one month, why not select the best option they have. I noticed Netflix only states whether a movie is in 5.1 surround sound or stereo. It doesn’t show you the specific audio format. So I played a movie with 5.1 audio and my receiver told me it was DD+. Okay, so that’s good, but I already knew it played DD+ from using Kodi earlier. My next issue was finding a movie that uses DTS on Netflix. I googled and found a list of movies that have DTS. Yet every movie that I searched for on Netflix (at least 10) was not found. Does Netflix not offer movies that have DTS audio? If not, that is just sad because there are a bunch of good movies.
Anyone have any suggestions to test DTS audio from the home screen of the Fire TV, or better yet, how to resolve DTS “No Signal” when using Kodi?
Thank you!
My AFTV2 will not playback video from any source without the playback pausing/stopping for about 1-2 seconds all through the movie. No matter what the source whether streaming from my NAS or streaming from an app, any app. I play the same video back on my AFTV1 and it plays fine. I can't even play 720 video back clean let alone 1080p. I am rooted on 5.0.4 I was thinking of unrooting and going back to 5.0.3 but I would rather not have to do that. Anyone else having issues with video playback on AFTV2? or can anyone suggest what I can try to correct it. I have already tried playing back video using MX Player and VLC. I thought VLC might work because its the one from Amazon Play Store but the result is the same. It's really driving me crazy because it happens all the time. The reason I got the AFTV2 was because I thought I would get cleaner playback of video based on the new hardware, but my AFTV1 which is also rooted blows it out of the water. The Fire TV 2 is connected to a powerline adapter, but I tested it connected directly to my router and the result was the same. Even on the powerline adapter my speed test is about 19-24 mbps which should be fast enough to playback video smoothly. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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My AFTV2 will not playback video from any source without the playback pausing/stopping for about 1-2 seconds all through the movie. No matter what the source whether streaming from my NAS or streaming from an app, any app. I play the same video back on my AFTV1 and it plays fine. I can't even play 720 video back clean let alone 1080p. I am rooted on 5.0.4 I was thinking of unrooting and going back to 5.0.3 but I would rather not have to do that. Anyone else having issues with video playback on AFTV2? or can anyone suggest what I can try to correct it. I have already tried playing back video using MX Player and VLC. I thought VLC might work because its the one from Amazon Play Store but the result is the same. It's really driving me crazy because it happens all the time. The reason I got the AFTV2 was because I thought I would get cleaner playback of video based on the new hardware, but my AFTV1 which is also rooted blows it out of the water. The Fire TV 2 is connected to a powerline adapter, but I tested it connected directly to my router and the result was the same. Even on the powerline adapter my speed test is about 19-24 mbps which should be fast enough to playback video smoothly. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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So.....no one else has problems with video playback on the AFTV2? If not then maybe it's my particular box that has a problem...
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So.....no one else has problems with video playback on the AFTV2? If not then maybe it's my particular box that has a problem...
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I just stream using Kodi & some addon sources you will get buffering problems but to be honest it's fine when you get a nice stream.
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I just stream using Kodi & some addon sources you will get buffering problems but to be honest it's fine when you get a nice stream.
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thanks for the reply. Yes I use Kodi as well, and you're right you have to have a good stream first. But even when I stream movies from my NAS in Kodi, or select a stream from an addon that's say MQ it still stutters throughout the movie. When I play the same movie, same stream, from my AFTV1 it plays perfectly fine. I know I have a fast enough internet connection. It just seems strange to me that the AFTV2 with the more powerful hardware can't come close to the AFTV1 when it comes to video playback. Even Netflix stutters.
I have an original FireTV box which is connected to my surround sound amp via an optical cable (the amp has no HDMI ports). In the sound setting I have enabled "Dolby Digital Over Optical".
For Prime Video, Netflix, and, UKTV it all works perfectly. However for BBC iPlayer, My5, Youtube, and, ITV Hub I get no sound through the amp. If I turn up the volume up on the TV the sound is there (but, obviously, I want it through my surround sound system). It was working fine before the new interface update. I also did a factory reset but it's still the same.
The FireTV is as factory, not rooted or anything.
Any ideas?
Same isuee
Same issue here. After the fire box software update the BBC iPlayer only play sound over HDMI, no sound over optical.
Did you managed to fix it?
Thanks
Peter
pksinan said:
Same issue here. After the fire box software update the BBC iPlayer only play sound over HDMI, no sound over optical.
Did you managed to fix it?
Thanks
Peter
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After further analysis I discovered that the Netflix app was only producing sound in Stereo (even though the content was DD 5.1). I think Prime Video was the only one generating DD 5.1 over the optical cable. The only way to fix it, as I can see it, is to buy a new AVR unfortunately. This is what I did, I replaced my old AVR with a new one that supports DD+ and, more importantly, has HDMI inputs on the back of it. I now get sound out of the BBC iPlayer app again (though only in stereo, as this is all that it supports) and DD+ 5.1 out of Prime Video and Netflix.
Probably not the news you wanted to hear.