android app to chromecast no DTS just DD

[brobin10 0]

hello all,

 

i am streaming movies/tv shows from my android device to my chromecast which is plugged directly into my audio receiver.

 

dolby digital audio is auto detected for movies/tv shows that have dolby digital however my receiver doesn't detect DTS audio on movies/tv shows like emby theater does when trying to very same media.

 

what am i missing here?

 

thanks

[Luke 42077]

Hi, welcome. Chromecast is not able to pass dts to your receiver therefore it has to be converted to a compatible format. That's why you don't see dts on your receiver.

[brobin10 0]

Understood.  Thanks for the prompt response.

 

If I picked up a roku device would that be able to use the emby app and pass dolby digital and DTS to my audio receiver?

 

thanks!

[speechles 2055]

Yes, roku has support for 5.1 in both dolby and dts flavors.

 

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[brobin10 0]

Yes, roku has support for 5.1 in both dolby and dts flavors.

 

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

 

amazing!  is there anything i have to do on the emby server side of things in order to get both dolby and dts to work with emby + roku?

 

hopefully i just need to have the media ready to play

[speechles 2055]

Not really anything special to do, no. So long as your equipment supports it the roku will passthrough. The roku is the simplest device to understand and use. Anybody can figure it out.

 

You can also use the forked blue neon app and gain additional features for advanced users.

 

See here: http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/24151-theme-blue-neon-night/

 

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Edited January 18, 2016 by speechles

[brobin10 0]

Not really anything special to do, no. So long as your equipment supports it the roku will passthrough. The roku is the simplest device to understand and use. Anybody can figure it out.

You can also use the forked blue neon app and gain additional features for advanced users.

See here: http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/24151-theme-blue-neon-night/

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Good deal. Thanks again. I was just looking at the blue neon app

[brobin10 0]

happy to report that i picked up a roku 2 today from best buy to try everything out....loaded the emby channel and set stream to high enough to get dolbt/DTS output to my audio receiver

 

everything works fine for now!

 

thanks again for the help

[Luke 42077]

Well done