Emby for Android on Shield TV no longer passing through dolby digital 5.1 or DTS

[daldana 132]

Shield is connected to LAN via ethernet, connected to Samsung Smarthub via HDMI, soundbar connected to Smarthub via HDMI also. Again, this setup worked fine yesterday with no changes made to it.

[ebr 16495]

It seems that setup should at least support DD so I'm think it could be an HDMI handshake issue as to why it is not reporting support for it.  You might consider hooking the Shield up to the soundbar directly if that is an option.

Changes in the app are why you are getting no audio but, you are not getting the best audio due to something in the setup or configuration of how things are hooked up.

[FrostByte 5523]

My setup is 

SHIELD -> HDMI IN -> Samsung soundbar -> HDMI OUT/E-ARC -> Samsung TV

That way I get all the audio codec support of the soundbar which is way more than the TV supports.  However, yes you would think it would report at least DD 5.1 support with it the way you have it.

[daldana 132]

Since the Shield and my Polk soundbar each have one HDMI connection each, connecting the Shield to the soundbar is not an option as there wouldn't be any connection to the Samsung TV. It seems like the app needs to be repaired as there, again seems to be, multiple users with the same problem.