svemonix

The Fire TV devices don't support DTS passthrough. With Kodi, DTS will be decoded to LPCM and then the Fire TV will reencode itself in Dolby with the built-in encoder....

> > Jellyfin should be transcoding DTS to AC3 if DTS bitstream is not ticked. > > Thanks for your reply. Unfortunatelly the same error occurs when I unselect "DTS...

I agree there is a need for better passthrough settings. However the suggestion above is not ideal. First, if TrueHD passthrough is ON, the user expects trueHD without transcoding regardless...

> This option works perfectly on Emby for Android TV, it does what I explain above, when the option is ON Dolby TrueHD passes through if the device has passhtrough...

> What is more disappointing, not having Dolby TrueHD passtrough or not having 5.1 audio passthrough at all?, saying that, if you can't have Dolby TrueHD then why not having...

There are only DTS-HD and DTS-HD MA. The first one is barely used. Most importantly, the exoplayer (tried with Plex too) detection doesn’t work properly on many devices.

The DTS core is DTS only. DTS-HD is something else.

I can confirm the same bug in 1.6.2.