Can anyone confirm/deny lossless audio (TrueHD, DTS-MA HD) passthrough on the Google TV Streamer yet? It’s in the hands of consumers but it seems no one has any clue how to test, probably because they lack the proper equipment. Please dont reply with an assumption, I’m looking for a definitive confirmation either way.
Trash review for reference:
On the DTS-HD front mine just bitstreams the core of DTS. On the TrueHD front if I try to play it just won’t and sit at 0 seconds when set to passthrough.
When HDMI passthrough is disabled it plays. For some reasons my Google TV Streamer passes all Dolby audio as well from streaming apps as PCM and not its respective format.
I used the same HDMI cable and port that was attached to my shield to rule out any issue on the HDMI port or cable.
Weather or not plex might need a software fix or not to passthrough correctly I don’t know or if its a chipset limitation. But for now No there is no TrueHD or DTS-HD passthrough.
Thats disapointing. This reviewer shows the lossless formats as supported.
It could be a compatibility issue with my Denon Receiver and something I can’t test as I don’t have another receiver but the receiver works fine with the same cable and port on my shield and no bit streaming issues there.
The google tv streamer will decode those formats to PCM but so far no bitstreaming. I saw them thinking nice maybe a possible shield replacment. Hell the Firecube Gen 3 I get Dolby TrueHD/Atmos passthrough like my Shield.
But so far the Google TV streamer for me is decoding all the apps and outputting as PCM audio. Hell before I knew of the Google TV streamer i imported the Onn 4K to try and that bitstreams Dolby Audio (not True HD) and so does the chromecast bitstream. Not sure why the Google TV streamer does not for me bitstream Dolby Audio. I even tried turning off those features.
Dolby Digital with Dolby Atmos from the various streaming services gets passed through to my Denon AVR just fine. TrueHD and DTS-HD don’t get passed through.
I was talking regular Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital+ I am not seeing bitstream. I think it’s decoding all including Dolby Digital + with Atmos and using Dolby MAT for the Atmos as well very much like the Apple TV box and not actual bit streaming. I will double check when home but I was sure the description on my receiver info for Atmos for the Shield TV Pro and the Google TV looks different.
Did anything change with the new Audio output settings? Would be nice to know what the new “Automatic” setting does.
We know it doesn’t pass DTS-HD etc.
My system doesn’t support DTS, but I have been able to get it to play, Works fine, I can have Plex transcode to AAC or let the TV handle it, at least I think the TV is doing it.
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