Here I summarize all the new pass-through changes Kodi Team made for master branch of Kodi 17. Maybe Zidoo team can find it useful to improve their Kodi. These pass-through changes now allow for 90% of Android devices to now have correct pass-through support. AESinkAudiotrack: Reimplement critical parts https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9023 AESinkAudiotrack: Fixups https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9060 AESinkAUDIOTrack: Remove logspam https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9100 AESinkAUDIOTrack: Only use non IEC passthrough when it's needed https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9102 VideoPlayer: passthrough improvements https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/8936 AE: fixes after recent work on passthrough https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9017 Sound codec improvement VideoPlayer: fix wmapro, some codecs do not consume entire packet https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9104 CPU decode improvement [Android] Fix cpu count on some Android devices https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9119/files Also not all 8 CPU cores information show in System Info, only 6 cores. maybe add extra string to show all CPU cores in 2 lines? Also Mpeg1/Mpeg2 streams can't zoom or resize as it is played by Mediacodec or RKCodec. Since mpeg streams use very little processing, it should be played by CPU software decode so IPTV PVR streams that are in resolutions like 1000x800, 800x600 or non standard resolution can be zoomed/stretched correctly with the video settings that is only possible with software decoding. There is also a Kodi SPMC-Jarvis branch here https://github.com/koying/SPMC/commits/spmc-jarvis?page=2 It is based on Kodi 16 and also has several pass-through changes and improvements. It also has 3D playback improvements & better optimized for Rockchip/AMLogic devices. But the pass-through changes here is only compatible with Kodi 16 and won't make it into Kodi 17 as Kodi 17 uses a completely different & better way to make pass-through work. But SPMC Kodi builds have always worked better on Rockchip devices than official Kodi versions, so maybe Zidoo can also check to implement RKCodec, RK pass-through, 3D and auto frame-rate switching into this build perhaps or directly work on Kodi 17 support that in the long term might be better.
