kd-43xd8305 sound output

[Labros7545]

I have the kd-43xd8305 and I wonder how I can sent dts hd, true hd etc to my av amp.I know there is a spdif output but it is limited to dolby digital and dts.

I have my movies library and I want to watch it on my tv via the internal player or maybe kodi.

[Win_88]

Hi Labros7545,

The best method of connection in this  case would be HDMI ARC, it is also worth mentioning that the supported audio formats on your TV are: Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus,  Dolby Pulse, DTS Digital Surround and PCM.

Hope this helps,

Win_88

[mmhorda]

HDMI ARC is the same broken and limited as TOSLINK on Sony Android TV.

Suprisingly Philips Android TV with the same SoC and Android version 7 handles it better for 3rd party apps.

[Kuschelmonschter]

From what I know, Philips Android TV on 7.1 Nougat is just as broken, not supporting ENCODING_DTS and ENCODING_IEC61937. Same as on Sony.

The TV does not have any HDMI outputs, but only inputs. So you are limited to TOSLINK and HDMI-ARC. Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD and multi-channel (L)PCM will never work via those interfaces. You will have to wait for HDMI 2.1/eARC for that to happen and hope that MediaTek/Sony will get it right. I wouldn't hold my breath though. A TV is not Blu-ray player anyway. TV manufacturers are basically only interested in common streaming services like Amazon, Netflix and the likes, so basically only caring about DD/DD+.

If you want more, you need to go via external media player like the SHIELD TV an AVR. The SHIELD TV has the required output to transfer those lossless audio streams.

[mmhorda]

This is amazing how frustrating it is.

Interesting who exactly failing here Mediatek?
Nobody is able to push mediatek to make it right in their drivers? I mean there are so many TV makers on Android TV, plus Google and nobody cares to push on mediatek? Its like they dont even use own products since they don't bother about this i would say quite a big problem.
As long as I understand with Nogaut situation got even worse or I am wrong?

[Kuschelmonschter]

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@mmhorda  schrieb:
I mean there are so many TV makers on Android TV

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You think Android TV is big? You are totally wrong. There are just manufacturers with homeopathic market share (even Sony and Philips are small when compared to Samsung and LG), products of niche interest (like SHIELD) and a lot of cheap chinese boxes which don't help Google make a lot of money either. I assume Android TV market share to be somewhere in the lower single-digit percentage area.

As long as I understand with Nogaut situation got even worse or I am wrong?

It is basically the same. It still only supports ENCODING_AC3 and ENCODING_EAC3. Initially there was a problem with Kodi which forced the newly added ENCODING_IEC61937 API for all passthrough. So passthrough was completely broken for any format, including Dolby. Kodi now probes the APIs and falls back to ENCODING_AC3/ENCODING_EAC3 to make at least those formats work as before.