I can't get TrueHD from Kodi app on Philips androidTV

by NotSoNotoriusButBIG

Hi, I have Philips 55PUS7304 androidTV with Samsuns Q76R/XE soundbar (same as Q70R?), both support Dolby Atmos, but I cant seem to get the soundbar to regonize Dolby Atmos sound when I'm playing a video file with Atmos sound on Kodi app. TV is running Android 9 and I have installed latest firmware update on the soundbar.

The soundbar regonizes Atmos when I play the file in TV's built-in videoplayer but not in Kodi. I have fiddled with every audio passthrough setting in Kodi but with no luck. 2.0 channels with passthrough enabled, all boxes ticked on formats etc. Has anyone else had this problem?

Also when I enable "multichannel passthrough" on TVs audio settings I get no sound whatsoever on my soundbar or TV, I have to use just "multichannel" to get sound, this applies to every app, videoplayer or plain TV channels. Is it normal?

Jitterer

And the main question is unanswered? How connected?

Spdif, coax and hdmi arc doesn't support dolby atmos. At least you need hdmi earc for it

BiggussDikkuss

I know of no TV running the Android TV OS - or any other Smart TV OS for that matter that has the required IEC61937 support to output any type of (Bluray type) HD audio from the Kodi App or any other App.

For Android TV, only the Nvidia Shield and the original 2016 Mi Box has such HD audio passthrough Kodi support.

Regular ARC does no have the required data bandwidth to even support HD audio of any type. Even TV's that support eARC cannot output HD Audio from their Apps.

Atmos from Apps built into the TV is lossy DD+/Atmos - that is not of HD (lossless) audio quality.

The cheapest type of devices for HD audio support are the AMLogic S9xx chipset - Chinese type Android boxes, and you run CoreELEC Kodi on them from an external microSDHC card:

https://coreelec.org/

These are VERY well supported by the CoreELEC Kodi guys.

scumb4ll

Why is Kodi set to 2 channels, have you tried with more set?

kylezz

You need eARC for Atmos TrueHD and DTS:X, otherwise you just get normal DD and DTS.