[voip-ninja]

Indeed, with DTS-MA, just the DTS core is getting passed through, which is expected behaviour when DTS-MA passthrough isnt working. I only have 1 Dolby TrueHD to test just now, but that seemed to be getting passed through as stereo, not sure if TrueHD contains a core 5.1 or 2.0 component, or if it varies.

Koying, is HD passthrough likely to be possible in the future? or is it just a limitation of the hardware, and wont happen? I note that in the amazon fireos audio settings, the options include DD+ passthrough HDMI, but I dont think it mentions DTS.

DTS-HD may not be a limitation of the hardware since Qualcomm shows the Snapdragon 600 series chips has it as part of the audio specs:

http://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon/processors/600

However, Amazon may not have implemented it. TrueHD may be a different story though, but if you have TrueHD+DD were the TrueHD track has the flag for the DD track XBMC for Ouya did default to the DD track, but Gotham doesn't.

I guess the thing to remember here, is we're just talking about passing the bitstream directly through HDMI to allow the other end to do the decoding, not asking the firetv itself to do any of the decoding.

To be honest, this is pretty much the only thing stopping me planning this as a long term main XBMC solution. I can live without VC-1 playback, I can just re-encode anything that needs to be done, there's a few other trivial niggles which I have no doubt will get worked out, and dont really bother me. But no HD audio passthrough is a biggie for me, have a lot of media with DTS-MA tracks, and a fairly expensive audio system downstream to make the most of all that data. So if its a 'never going to happen' situation, then I might have to look into an intel NUC, Which I dint really want to do. However, if there is someeglimmer og hope that it may one day, in the not too distant future, then I will hang around gladly to sissyt in anyway I can

I think it (for me) will be an okay solution for secondary areas of the home. No way without HD audio, 1080p/24 and VC1 would it cut it in my theater room.