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I don't see the options for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD capable receiver. Are these available somehow? I'd like to bitstream all the audio formats to my receiver, not convert everything to PCM. I see the DD and DTS options, but not the HD options.

DTS-HD and TrueHD passthrough are not presently supported by the Android platform. They may or may not get added in future Android versions (I might look into it myself later).

Well that sucks big time. Is the decoding even full bitrate decoding or is it just pulling out the DTS or DD stream and decoding that? I was really hoping to ditch my HTPC and replace it with this, but I need Atmos and that will only come with a TrueHD stream. I can't believe they won't let Android just pass the bits. Seems a lot simpler than decoding the stream.

I just keep hoping that one day I'll be able to have a small, low-power device, that can handle all my media needs. I guess that's not happening anytime soon. Granted I can't do Amazon on this device, but it's oh so close to doing everything else I need.

Kodi uses FFmpeg for audio decoding, and it has full TrueHD decoding and full DTS-HD HRA (Hi-Res Audio) decoding, but no full DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) decoding yet.

Android 5.0 added some official passthrough support for the first time (for AC-3 and E-AC-3, the latter of which we do not yet support on Android), so things are heading to the right direction. There is a TODO entry in their code to add more formats.