DTS play fails if HDMI passthrough is enabled on Samsung TV and the new Google Chromecast TV

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On the new Chromecast TV device behind a Samsung TV, with HDMI passthrough enabled, playing a video with DTS soundtrack fails to start with an error.

On a Mi BOX S device behind a Panasonic TV, with HDMI passthrough enabled, the is no trouble.

To diagnose, I switched the android tv boxes, and all is working fine.

=> The new Google Chromecast TV behind my Samsung TV and HDMI passthrough don’t allow to play video with DTS soundtrack. It seems that there is a trouble to stream the native DTS track to the TV.

[FordGuy61]

See this thread for possible workaround:

Chromecast with Google TV not Playing DTS 7.1 Audio

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