Rasplex with HiFiberry DAC+ for music and HDMI for movies

Is it possible to configure a Hifiberry DAC+ to use the analogue audio (stereo) for music and HDMI for movies (5.1 surround)?  

 

Anybody who has Rasplex and Hifiberry if it's worth buying one, especially if you have a amp that can do 24-192 DAC with the HDMI?

HifiBerry isn't supported yet, it is planned for a future release, not 0.6.0 though.

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Are u sure it’s not planned for 0.6 ? Surely the will use a more recent kernel?

Having the driver in the kernel doesn't mean that RasPlex will suddenly know how to configure it as an audio output... 

That’s a pity, would be great to see a good lightweight music client that could integrate with plex thus enabling plex to serve all our home media needs. I currently use volumio on my raspberry pi but my music exists on my plex server and is served by smb to the pi. However the remote and interface leaves a lot to be desired when sat next to plex

The dev team is working on integrating support for the HiFiBerry, it won't be in 0.6.0 but may be in 0.6.1.

Ah, that’s good to know, thank you,


Stu