guys, any of you using azdrama video add on and manage to make it work on gotham alpha?

thanks dude.. lets wait for DKnight then..

thanks man.. i gotta try that out.

Boss the media playback I able to run at 1080p without jerk. I selected audio pass through to release the burden of audio processing from himedia and pass it to my receiver. I found that it support dts but not dts ma. Still some room for improvement there

HiMedia = android boxes can dude.. it comes with a native player that allow DTS HDMA and TrueHD to passthru it without glitches

you are right boss.. anyhow i feel the PQ is better on XBMC but i am not sure if that is my bias or

I think if they do not have the copyrighted issue they might improve it on XBMC so that we can enjoy this feature in the future release..

dknight had mention he is busy for 3 weeks.. so expect the fix to come after that

i try to explain in layman terms

passthrough is asking the media player not to process (can be tv, android box, apple tv). Audio from your media source (movie) are encoded. Normally it will be encoded into DTS or Dobly format. If we select passthru media player will pass it to the next target (for eg your AV receiver/TV/Soundbar) for decoding. if not then it will process the decoding itself

Why is this matter? This matter then you have a quality receiver that you are connecting to. In this case i do not want my media player to decode the sound i wan my receiver to decode this.

another pro point here is we can reduce the job for the media player. Working to output 1080p video will create certain stress to the player already. If we still ask the player to process high quality audio, if your player is not good enough it will give you non-smooth movie playing.


The target here is to get the best possible experience from the quality media source that you are trying to play.

actually we can have a lot of variety depends on the model of ur TV and AVR. My case i am using type 3. My TV and AVR support ARC.

I will connect my media player to AVR and my AVR support 'off mode' pass thru. In this case my AVR will be sleeping mode and the signal still able to reach my TV i will still able to get video and audio.

I also found that if you are using type 2, my tv will not able to deliver DTS-MA or Dobly-TrueHD to my AVR as my tv doesn't support this encoding it will downgrade to normal DTS or Dobly by my TV before reaching AVR.

that 1 is himedia control function. abec is capturing the screen from his mobile.