I have a Shield connected directly to a TV, so passthrough of lossless codecs isn’t supported. But I noticed with ExoPlayer v2 that DCA-MA audio tracks are direct played now - I presume this is because the Shield is software decoding (just the DTS core?). Are there any plans to support software decode and downmix of TrueHD? As it stands now, I can’t play back any of my UHD rips on this device (luckily I still keep the regular blu-ray version too, when available), because when it is forced to transcode the audio, it can’t direct stream the HEVC 10-bit video, and my server pukes when a client asks for a 1080p@60Mbps+ video transcode, even with hardware transcoding. Can’t imagine why 
@ccutrer said:
Are there any plans to support software decode and downmix of TrueHD?
The answer I am told is, “No.”
@Achilles said:
@ccutrer said:
Are there any plans to support software decode and downmix of TrueHD?
The answer I am told is, “No.”
Not strictly true. They said they want to get down mixing but it’s a complicated licensing issue.
How about if the TrueHD track has an AC3 core, being able to recognize that, and then direct play and decode just the core portion, to avoid forcing the server to transcode?
(Though I’m doubting many of my files are of that format, since I remux to MKV)
