(2020-02-27, 21:24)DaVu Wrote: Yeah, we know that this is kind of broken and there won't be newer versions for that kind of device anymore. Even the Wetek Play2 (which I own) won't get anything newer than Kodi 18.2. And for the reason we are currently on Kodi 18.5, this version is also already kind of outdated and unsupported. 

I feel with you, but the only thing I can recommend is either to use LE 8.2.5 or get another device if you care that much about passthrough

In regard of passthrough and if you don't want to buy something new, I would really consider to not use passthough at all, but set your speaker setup to 7.1 and use PCM. Your AVR will show something like "Multichannel" then. Generally it's the same. The difference is, that Kodi does the decoding and sends the analog stream to the AVR (even HD-audio stream, such as DTS-HD or DolbyTrueHD is possible in that way as HDMI supports 8 channels). Beside you own a speaker setup >10.000$ you won't hear a difference anway.

(2020-02-28, 11:53)biomecanoid Wrote: Wetek Play ---> HDMI ---> TV ---> SPDIF ---> Philips DVD acting as AMP switching to optical input I can hear both the TV/Wetek through the speakers on the DVD
                                           ---> HDMI  ---> To Access the settings of the Philips DVD player
 

(2020-02-29, 09:54)DaVu Wrote:

(2020-02-28, 11:53)biomecanoid Wrote: Wetek Play ---> HDMI ---> TV ---> SPDIF ---> Philips DVD acting as AMP switching to optical input I can hear both the TV/Wetek through the speakers on the DVD
                                           ---> HDMI  ---> To Access the settings of the Philips DVD player
 

Oh. I wasn't aware that there's no AVR in between. I'm mostly talking about connections which are done in that way: 

TV-Box -> HDMI -> AVR -> HDMI -> TV

Pushing the sound over HDMI to the TV and then via S/PDIF to something "which acts like an amp" is not very recommended. Some TVs don't have the right (license-wise) to push the sound from external sources to another external device. Especially not for S/PDIF which itself is limited to DD and DTS. So everything "HD audio" isn't supported anyway and my suggestion above won't work as well. Because if it's S/PDIF in the end, it only supports 2-channel PCM.

What I would really recommend....safe your money for a new TV box and get some cheap amp (probably something used from eBay or whatever) which has HDMI inputs and outputs as well as S/PDIF inputs. In that way you can connect all the devices to the AVR directly and I highly guess you will be able to play your videos with nice audio again.