DTS-HD MA 7.1 and Shield

by thecw

Some tidbits for those of you trying to get your Shield working with high-end audio:

Plex and Kodi don't yet do proper passthrough of full DTS-HD MA with 7.1. Plex is currently working with Google to finish support.

ES File Explorer can play it with the built-in Shield media player, which Nvidia hacked proper support into. I haven't been able to scrub MKVs with this, however.

_jinX

Thanks

Also another FYI, following that, I've just tried some other files in the built in player and can confirm that Dolby Atmos passes through okay too.. Which is contrary to what I've been told previously, even by nvidia!

joe603

Have you tried the Archos Media Player? The Player allows you select whatever video player you want for each video or every video. So you get HD Audio with a Plex type metadata setup

lament

The v4.16.0.472 version of Plex says it supports DTS/DTS-HD MA pass through. I can't test it though.