[wesk05]

HD audio passthrough surprisingly kinda works! Wasn't expecting this. Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 7.1 (including ATMOS and DTS:X) are output as multichannel PCM, but unfortunately the rears & sides channels are swapped, and there's no center and no LFE. Hopefully, WeTek can fix this, either decoded to PCM properly like Raspberry Pi2 or even ideally bitstreamed to proper 5.1 to 7.1
PCM 5.1 & 7.1 are thankfully output as multichannel PCH (tested with '3:10 to Yuma' Blu-ray rip), but surround channels are wrong & center is missing here as well.
Bitrate test clips... very impressive!
- Birds clip up to 90Mbps played perfectly (and I don't have any higher bitrates)
- Jellyfish up to 137Mbps played perfectly (enough for upcoming 4K Blu-rays); even 255Mbps almost played, but Core strugged with it and stuttered (not surprising)

First of all, nice detailed review for the A/V enthusiasts on Kodi forum!

So, is HD audio passthrough working or not? You mention that HD audio is decoded to LPCM, but with channel mapping errors. This is actually interesting because neither HD audio passthrough or LPCM works on the Minix X8-H Plus. That said, I am not sure whether this will be present in future firmware. CT mentioned that they had to remove Dolby/DTS decoder libraries in this release, but it will be added again later. Licensing restrictions will come into play then.

Ultra HD Blu-ray is encoded using HEVC main/main10 profiles. These Jellyfish clips are H.264.