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Thanks for your feedback.
What's the format of your blu-ray rip? MKV?
Does your HTPC ouput HD audio when playing this movie?

We ripped a Blu-ray disc with MakeMKV, the HD audio in the souced file was changed to DTS in the finished MKV file.
Could you try some Blu-ray iso files to see if the HD audio work? (We want to make sure if your AVR is supported)
Or could you rip the blu-ray disc with other tools, such as AnyDVD, DVDFab? (We want to know if the DTS-HD audio made by MakeMKV can not be recognized by our box)

Thank you for your time.

Yes, the audio track is DTS-HD and it plays fine on a Windows HTPC running XBMC 13.2 Gotham and also Kodi Helix.
You have to select the DTS-HD track in MakeMKV if you want to get HD audio.
MakeMKV doesn't do any transcoding, it's just a pass-through of the audio and video streams, sans the protections of course. MKV file format.

As more feedback, last night I was trying to play an mp4 file, 1080p video with 2 channel AAC audio. Same out of sync problem between video and audio, same file plays fine on an AFTV box, no lipsync issues. Also, during playback about the middle of the movie all of a sudden it was starting to speed up and play as if I hit 2x speed. Skipping back and forth didn't solve it, I had to stop the movie and start it again.

I noticed that the IR on these boxes is rather weak too (not sure whether it's the receiver or the remote). The remote is usually about 7-8 ft. from the box, but even if I stand up and I'm closer to the box, pointing towards it, IR is hit or miss. Again, not sure whether it's the IR or the box is just sluggish to respond to commands.

And is anybody using Netflix here? I don't see it mentioned at all, for me the video does not work at all.