Support DTS Pass-through Audio

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Try to cast an MKV with DTS audio
2.Try to cast any encoded video file with DTS as the primary sound track.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
-Expected: I can hear the audio (audio is passed through)
-Actual: No audio is outputted (audio is not passed through)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
-The latest firmware

Please provide any additional information below.
-You recently altered the code to allow AC3 pass-through, however you failed to 
add the ability to have DTS pass-through.
This renders the chromecast useless (without the assistance of a PC re-encoding 
the audio track) when playing a file that has a DTS audio track.
Please tend to this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by borninma...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2014 at 2:40

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Original comment by anad...@google.com on 28 Sep 2014 at 3:46

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This would be great

Original comment by tobiaslu...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2014 at 8:23

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This would be a very welcome feature! 

Original comment by bjarnehe...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2014 at 12:34

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Would very much like to see this feature! 

Original comment by magnus.t...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2014 at 7:30

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Yes and normal DD not DD+

Original comment by jocke0...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2014 at 9:34

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All formats may be passed through (DTS, DD and other multi speaker audio 
streams)

Original comment by patrick.kracht on 14 Oct 2014 at 9:57

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@jocke0...@gmail.com DD/AC3 is now supported for passthrough:
https://code.google.com/p/google-cast-sdk/issues/detail?id=192

Original comment by ch...@cotehome.com on 14 Oct 2014 at 2:58

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@ch but not DTS

Original comment by profd...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2014 at 4:07

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Yes please, the Chromecast UX is very incomplete without DTS-passthrough.

Original comment by geert.ve...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2014 at 10:48

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Indeed. The chromecast needs to either decode to LPCM or do passthrough. It's a 
supposed to be a multimedia device!

Original comment by mj.kersb...@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2014 at 10:37

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Please add this feature, it's holding me back on watching a lot of videos!

Original comment by gust...@gustavo.ca on 17 Oct 2014 at 10:39

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Please add this. It doesn't make sense to give us AC3 support but neglect DTS 
when just as much media is encoded with this format.

Original comment by ashley...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2014 at 9:05

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We need DTS for chromecast. I wanna wach mkv videos with dts Codec.  

Original comment by nils8...@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2014 at 5:36

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Yes, I wholeheartedly agree - I have Plex and have a lot of DTS files, all get 
transcoded to AAC by Plex (not by Chromecast) and I cannot hear the orginial 
soundtrack.

Original comment by Saugata....@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2014 at 7:52

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+1 just passthrough. Proof you care about us... as you have with 
AC3-Passthrough :-)

Original comment by vadda.sc...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2014 at 12:19

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Would be very nice

Original comment by andy.hue...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2014 at 12:22

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Please. 

Original comment by Thavo...@gmail.com on 25 Nov 2014 at 7:48

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DTS would be a great improvement (50% more video available in my library...)

Original comment by AlexGi...@gmail.com on 28 Nov 2014 at 8:52

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I need DTS too. Please support that. 

Original comment by nils8...@gmail.com on 2 Dec 2014 at 5:05

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DTS passthrough is needed to make it really useful in the living room 
entertainment setup.

Original comment by jee...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2014 at 1:42

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Please add support for DTS-Passthrough immediately. This is an essential 
feature and very much needed. Thanks in advance.

Original comment by p3ak...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2014 at 12:02

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buyed Chromecast today. I have many video files in my computer and pretended to 
watch them on my TV. As Chromecast promised to play my videos on my tv and 
since Google seemed to me like a reliable company i bought it.

Result: I cant play over 90% of my MKV files which are 99% of my video files.
I'll have to consult it with my pillow but taking it back to the store seems 
very probable right know

Original comment by dmorallo...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2014 at 2:12

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I need DTS, this would be great

Original comment by gonmerc...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2014 at 1:10

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Please add DTS  passthrough

Original comment by forward....@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2014 at 5:15

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DTS support is much needed. 

Original comment by coryle...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2015 at 4:08

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Without DTS support, this chromecast is useless...
Please support !

Original comment by mich.m....@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2015 at 4:42

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We need DTS passthrough. Please!

Original comment by tum.m...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2015 at 6:40

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Please add dts

Original comment by mikech3...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2015 at 8:23

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Can people just star the issue (top left of the screen) instead of replying, 
it's the star count that gets it attention from developers, not the number of 
times people say they want it in comments.

Original comment by clickher...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2015 at 10:19

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@31: Thanks man. I left a response but didn't star :-)

Original comment by vadda.sc...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2015 at 1:44

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DTS is not supported at this time.

Original comment by lnicho...@google.com on 14 Jan 2015 at 11:02

• Changed state: Done

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Done??? 

Original comment by vadda.sc...@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2015 at 11:07

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This is a feature request people. Make certain you click the STAR icon in the 
upper left of the screen to show Google how popular this feature request is.

Original comment by ch...@cotehome.com on 14 Jan 2015 at 11:08

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Boo...

Original comment by cdambro...@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2015 at 11:10

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Google said the same thing about AC3 passthough support. They said it was not 
supported official after it was requested. Months and many stars later, Google 
enabled the AC3 passthrough feature. DTS will happen, keep staring this feature.

Original comment by ch...@cotehome.com on 14 Jan 2015 at 11:13

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Unless it's been implemented, I really don't think "Done" is an appropriate 
response to this issue. "Not going to happen" would be an appropriate response; 
not liked, but applicable. "Done" implies that a task has been completed, which 
certainly does not appear to be the case here.

Original comment by john.jab...@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2015 at 11:38

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"Won't Fix" was how the AC3 request was originally labeled/dismissed by Google. 
I think Google only knows the difference.

Original comment by ch...@cotehome.com on 14 Jan 2015 at 11:42

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Done? Seriously?

If you're not going to fix it, I think "Won't Fix" is the correct response.

Having said that, as a developer, if I ever closed a defect with either of 
those responses and didn't give a good explanation, I'd be in trouble.  ;)

Is the problem just resources, a limitation of the hardware, a royalty issue, 
etc.?

Thanks for any further insight you can provide.

Original comment by anthony....@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2015 at 12:06

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Original comment by lnicho...@google.com on 15 Jan 2015 at 2:00

• Changed state: WontFix

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Well... if it's not going to happen i suppose we can throw away them sticks. 
Thanks for wasting our time google.

Original comment by p3ak...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2015 at 3:15

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Like a guy said before, they did the same thing with AC3 and later implemented 
it. So, our best bet is to keep adding star until it makes it important enough.

Original comment by gust...@gustavo.ca on 15 Jan 2015 at 9:09

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Hope so, i guess that for my other TV, i will have to buy a Roku or some other 
that support DTS pass-through

Original comment by gonmerc...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2015 at 12:45

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won't fix, won't buy another chromcast! ;)

Original comment by harrysch...@googlemail.com on 15 Jan 2015 at 7:23

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live with your time! please add dts!

Original comment by privie...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2015 at 6:56

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DTS-MA and TRUEHD pass through please! Until then, it's like eating without 
taste buds... Cheers to that Gogloo people...

Original comment by OldrichJ...@googlemail.com on 7 Mar 2015 at 11:28

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DTS would be a great thing!

Original comment by ryxme...@googlemail.com on 10 Mar 2015 at 4:26

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Can dts pass through really require so much work Google? 

Original comment by owengrif...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2015 at 6:11

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I don't think it's a matter of work. It's more of business decision.

Original comment by gust...@gustavo.ca on 10 Mar 2015 at 6:13