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As the title says, pass through support "for your favourite media apps" is coming to Xbox and is currently in testing (or about to be) for xbox Alpha Ring.
I'm in Beta ring on my X1X so haven't got the update yet.
I know that the pass through option is in the menus on Leia (and has been discussed at length why it hasn't been supported) and wondered if the functionally should start working when the ability becomes available at a system level or if the menu item has nothing behind it on xbox because of the currently existing restrictions on apps.
I'm about to sideload Matrix and just wanted to know if this is something that I could be testing as well when it hits Beta Ring
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Do you have any public links with info on this? what would really be helpfull is any documents from any of the Misrosoft's websites, but being alpha the tech docs may not be published yet, so so you could keep an eye out for them.
From what I understand the UWP app uses the XAudio API and it is that which didn't have any passthrough support.
The desktop versions of Kodi for Windows use the WASAPI and Directsound API's which are not possible to use within UWP apps.
If Microsoft are adding passthrough support to XAudio API then it's likely the Kodi code will have to be reworked, so it's very likely that it won't magically just start to work once Microsoft pushes out the update. However if they've decided to bring the Directsound/WASAPI API's to the Xbox, then there's a good chance passthrough may start to work without any Kodi changes.
So it all depends on how Microsoft are implementing this.
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Yeah I was having a play today. Unfortunately can't give any technical update as to how it works but I can confirm that there is also an update to PLex as part of the insider program. I have successfully been playing all HD formats bitstream from the PLex App. Hopefully Kodi can follow suit at some point. Once Kodi get the HDR working too that will mean the Xbox takes centre stage.
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Passthrough audio has now been rolled out in todays system update.
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Gentlemen please bring my Xbox to life by giving it Kodi with audio pass through now that this is possible. Who can help, help the team to take advantage now that microsoft allowed this feature. thank you very much for your attention!