# Plex HTPC feedback

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-htpc-feedback/703205>\
**Category:** Plex Players\
**Tags:** plex-htpc\
**Created:** [March 23, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-htpc-feedback/703205 "2021-03-23T13:44:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-htpc-feedback/703205/897 "2021-11-15T17:26:00Z")

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> [@quindarious](#):
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> Unable to select passthrough for optical audio output

You are able as is evident by your screenshot:

 ![cbf529f93b77aec82a63083c8408e66b726ad2bc](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/7/5/0/7502b7cc8d1113e282c3f53f56d419212735d3e9.jpeg)

> [@Mitzsch](#):
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> Did you mean `--vo=x11` or `--gpu-context=x11` for mpv?

Sorry, I meant the gpu context. There are several code paths that go through the function of interest and I mixed which one I was looking at when making the post. Though in this case it may not matter as we can’t use either one because the code is terminally infected with GPL.  
There were apparently plans in MPV to rewrite all the x11 code in xcb using a better license but sadly that didn’t come to fruition.

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