Audio in Marshmallow update (problems in Lollipop)?

[vispen74]

In the Android 5.1 Lollipop firmware of the 2015 & 2016 series TVs, it is major problems with audio. This meaning:

• It is not possible to force the TV to always use an external AVR for audio. Every time TV turns on, it is the inbuilt speaker by default.
• It is not possible to get multi-PCM from TV to AVR.
• It is verry dificult to get audio passthrough from mediaplayer applikations such as Kodi.

All this together gives a really bad user experience, and is verry demanding to get things work on the Sony Android-TVs.

In reality it is almost inpossible to use this TVs together with external 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound on current firmware, only 2 channel PCM-sound.

Is the Android 6.1 Marshmallow update for this TV-sets compliant to the IEC61937 Audio standards that Android use? This will probably solve at least the audio passthrough problem and give the TV multi PCM output.

Please fix these probkems Sony!

//Owner of a KD-65XD8505

[vispen74]

It seems that, as said before, Sony or mediatek havn't take advantage of Marshmallows support for DTS passthrough. 

In this thread at Kodi forums there are logs and explanations:

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