Is High Definition Audio Supported on Raspberry Pi?

fganter · March 4, 2017 at 2:28 AM

I'm running LibreELEC 8.0.0 on a Raspberry Pi2.

When playing MKVs with DTS-MA or TrueHD, audio shows on my Onkyo AVR as Multi-channel PCM.

While I've tried various Audio Passthrough settings in Kodi, the AVR just won't recognize the signal as DTS-MA or TrueHD, even through this same receiver does so with other media players.

Are DTS-MA and TrueHD not supported on Raspberry Pis?

While I tried finding an answer in the forums, most threads don't specifically address RPi's. My apologies in advance, if I overlooked something.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

**lrusak** · March 4, 2017 at 2:50 AM Official Post

No

DTS-HD and TrueHD aren't supported on any RPI

fganter · March 4, 2017 at 11:54 AM

Quote from lrusak

No

DTS-HD and TrueHD aren't supported on any RPI

Thanks for the quick response.

**popcornmix** · March 14, 2017 at 4:50 PM

Just to clarify, passthrough of DTS-HD and TrueHD is not supported on any Pi.
The Pi (at least Pi2 and Pi3) can decode those formats and output them through HDMI as 8 channel PCM.
That is likely to sound identical to the passed through version. (The decoders are bit exact).