So with the plex pass on offer I was tempted to look at it again. The xbox app seems to be getting closer as a player I could actually use. But since 90% of my library is in dts and dts-ma I never play anything with plex. My “server” cant transcode anything due to it being very weak so the xbox one x so be able to handle it. But with all the progress being made in other areas I would like to hear - what is the status and/or plans on dts and dts-ma?
Thanks
There currently isn’t any. Because the system is closed, Plex must wait for Microsoft to add support for any additional codecs. Once the platform framework is able to support DTS (It currently does not support any form of DTS for 3rd party playback) the update to the app can be done really quickly to support these codecs.
VLC and Plex for Kodi can play DTS 5.1 in mp4 container. Not sure what happens under the hood.
Typically, both VLC and Kodi use their own software decoders to get around platform limitations. Plex apps solely use the platform capabilities.
Is it likely that Plex will give up on the platform decoder and just use their own decoder? I understand the benefit of using the platform, but it seems like it’s been long enough waiting for it to do what we need it to and it’s time to give up.
Based on my experience with platforms in the past, I would say it doesn’t seem very likely that they would switch over.
In my opinion, what the next step would be would actually be working on getting audio passthrough to work. While this won’t solve 100% of the issues, it would provide a simple alternative for most users to work past the decoding limitations on the platform.
But I do not have access to the development timeline, so that is just my guess on what would be likely to happen out of the options.
yeah. passthrough is future proof at least as it looks today based on HDMI 2.1.
Yea, passthrough would work for audio. Video is a different story, but I’ll have to start a different thread to promote a Plex decoder for video. 
