Android TV and atmos

by rscherzer

So I just recently upgraded my tv to a Vizio v655-g9 and a vizio soundbar sb36512-f6. In doing that I've went down the dolby atmos rabbit hole. Trying to get this atmos signal to pass with any android box is not that easy of a task if you want to on a budget. I've read posts all over reddit saying this box with work or that one will work with CoreELEC and Kodi. I have had some luck with a newer Amlogic passing through Dolby Digital Plus with atmos but not Dolby TrueHD. Is the Nvidia Shield Pro 2019 able to play and pass Dolby TrueHD effortlessly? I'm tired of jumping through a bunch of hoops just to get atmos to play, I just want to plug in my usb drive and watch a movie with everything working without having to go through all the hassle.

schneidernet

I am not sure how that soundbar can do Atmos at all. Atmos requires two more speakers mounted high although they do sell projector speakers to supposedly bounce the sound off the ceiling. Atmos is to add a third dimension to the left/right, front/back scheme. My Onkyo AVR outputs it as 5.2.2 while when DD+ it is 7.2. The 2 being I have two subs.

Ron_Aldo

Maybe try to use Kodi and passthrough the atmos and TrueHD signal from there. I have a mibox 3 and it works just fine. Just had to enable passthrough, tick 7.1 etc and it was god to go. but only with Kodi though. Others like VLC don't work

BiggussDikkuss

There are two two types of Atmos:

  1. Lossy Atmos from copy protected video streaming services like Netflix. That being DD+ Atmos.
  2. Lossless TrueHD/Atmos that comes from Bluray Rips. Users often use Kodi or MrMC Apps for that.

There are only Two Android TV devices that can passrhrough No 2. Those being the NVIDIA Shield and the original 2016 Mi Box. **Those devices must be directly HDMI connected to a TrueHD/Atmos capable AVR or soundbar.**

In Kodi, Advanced or Expert settings must be used, audio Channels set to 2.0 and TrueHD Passthrough audio enabled.

CoreELEC Kodi, running from a microSDHC on cheap AMLogic S9xx devices can do No 2. as well with TrueHD / Atmos.Seriously see the CoreELEC forums, there are bargain devices to be had that will run DIY - CE Kodi easily.