The Ultimate Audio Showdown AC3 Passthru vs Dolby TrueHD Revealed

My problem is getting AC3 passthrough to work. I had it working in Mint 11 where I got dolby digital surround using vlc player by selecting alsa (with hdmi) ... Now to play DTS/AC3/Dolby Digital, you need the 'raw' set to on. Then the sound card sends the data to the card as is. The AES0=6 is ... I have a WDTV Live Streaming. I have it connected wirelessly. I have MKVs with 48kHz AC3 audio tracks that the unit does not play properly. in general able to passthrough or decode/play digital audio like Dolby or DTS or is it impossible, because of missing license or codecs? Is ... I have a bunch of Rokus but switch to a Shield when I'm going to watch something with DTS-HD or TrueHD. Expand. As far as Uncompressed Audio ... ... AC3 (or EC3) track that accompanies. Work-around: In all cases, re-processing the video in Compressor with the "Multi-pass" option turned ... That's for video. On the audio part, the guys who rip the movies to samples, previews or full 700megs movies also rip the surround 5.1 into a ... TrueHD as found on UHD will have an AC3 extension which is seen as one file which UHD players can utilize either part depending on the audio equipment used. What i saw, was only a normal AC3 5.1 Audio Track in the Dolby True HD codec. But i cant see an Information for the original 7.1 Dolby True HD ... I'm trying to get passthrough audio on my receiver from Kodi on Ubuntu. I can only assume the Dolby codecs aren't installed by default as everything worked ...