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  • Passthrough audio is finally on the way to Apple TV, iPhone, and more

    LocutusLocutus
    Rogue01 said:
    Finally an update to AppleTV that is worth getting excited for.  An AV receiver will do a much better job with the sound processing than the AppleTV.  I did not realize the AppleTV wasn't already doing the passthrough over HDMI for a receiver to handle the processing.
    Almost no mainstream streaming player fully passes through audio.  The Roku Ultra allows it for DD and DD+ only.  The Shield will for some formats, but it's not really mainstream.
    williamlondondewme

  • Passthrough audio is finally on the way to Apple TV, iPhone, and more

    LocutusLocutus
    We may be getting ahead of ourselves here.  This is likely just including other platforms in the macOS passthrough API included in macOS last fall.  The API offers limited passthrough support for DD and DD+.  In macOS, it's a per-app preference.  Its not a guarantee.  When set, macOS will passthrough audio as long as you don't have any other audio features in use that requires macOS to decode the audio.  Once you do, macOS falls back to decoding rather than passing through.  macOS doesn't support TrueHD or DTS with this change.  I don't imagine tvOS will either.
    escargotdewme