Hi,
My mibox did a small update yesterday.. and now I can't get Dolby to work. It's used to work fine in Kodi as passthrough, and also in Netflix with Dolby plus (with the odd cut out as per expected).
Now my receiver won't click into Dolby as mibox doesn't send the sound. I checked setting and can't find anything to fix it.
Any one else have this issue ?
Not sure if there is a work around atm but 8.1 is coming and is said to fix must of the bugs in 8.0.
Options
(a) Wait for Xiaomi to fix it, because it's a buggy Firmware problem that is the root cause....
(b) Have Xiaomi wait till AMLogic fix it in their buggy new Kernel...
(c) Point the Finger and Blame Google when (a) and (b) fail...
(d) Buy a NVIDIA Shield and vow to never buy untested, Xiaomi products ever again !
The problem is NOT Apps like Kodi or Netflix but buggy Oreo Firmware. Blaming Apps for Firmware problems is simply ridiculous !
I just ordered this gadget to help resolve my 5.1 digital problems:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074HHSJVN/
Hopefully it works. Right now my 5.1 digital output via TOSLink cable is only giving 2 channel stereo for everything. I can only assume that the Mi Box is reading whats on the other end of my HDMI cable which is my TV which only has two speakers (like most TV's do) so it's auto converting everything to stereo. Converting to stereo even through the TOSLink output.
It was either wait for Xiaomi to fix it which could be a long time.. maybe never...
or
Buy a new receiver that has HDMI processing built in. My receiver I have is older and has HDMI pass-through ports so it won't process anything.
Yes.. it's not working for me too. MDZ 16 AB . Some weird noise is coming in DTS mode. I reset the setting.