Hi
I have been using an Nvidia Shield Tube now, but I was wondering if Apple TV + Infuse could play my collection of MKV (with DTS-MA) stored on a NAS. I use Plex as the server.
Can anyone help me so that I won’t have any surprises when I decide to do this switch?
Thanks!
infuse have audio decoder DTS HD MA. Mkv can play too.
thanks for you quick reply Axl.
So I can be sure that the output is not a 7.1 LPCM, but a truly DTS-MA or Dolby Atmos. This is very important for me that I get lossless HD audio.
Infuse does not output TrueHD or DTS:MA, or their respective Atmos/DTS:X metadata. Infuse will repackage the audio into 7.1 LPCM. This is still lossless, you just don’t get the positional metadata that Dolby Atmos and DTS:X use.
If you have height speakers installed Iland predominantly TrueHD Atmos and DTS:X libraries, Infuse (and Apple TV in general) is not the answer for you.
To be clear, AC3-based Atmos will still work, but unless your library is mostly Netflix/Amazon/Disney+/ATV+ rips, there’s not much point.
Thank you for providing me this clear answer, so there is no way to have DTS-MA pass through on an ATV? 
I use a synology nas where the mkv files are stored in uncompressed format
Unfortunately not. There’s no app you can run that will pass audio that registers as DTS-MA via AppleTV. This is not an Infuse issue, this is a tvOS issue; Apple does not allow/support audio passthrough in tvOS and Firecore has had a long-running petition to ask them to.
Unfortunately outside of the Shield, the only other options for native audio tracks are other Android-based players like Zidoo, etc but they have their own trade-offs with Dolby Vision profile support issues, performance and general UI/Android quirks.
Honestly your best option right now is the Shield, with Infuse on ATV a comprimising but leaner, faster and more fluid alternative.
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