Qobuz streams native high-res audio at up to 192 kHz, so it raises the bar on the capabilities of the streaming system. I’m going to use Qobuz as the streaming service in these articles. This article presents the big picture, and follow-up articles will look at specific audio players. I think it’s about time, however, for some updates that cover things other than the Raspberry Pi. I assumed in that article that audio would be played to a Raspberry Pi with Volumio installed on it. That article turned out to be one of HifiZine’s most popular for long-term readership.

And it's a respectable gaming platform.A few years ago, I wrote How to stream TIDAL to the Raspberry Pi. Not inexpensive, but will play almost every video and audio codec. If you want a streaming box that will play almost everything without transcoding, look at the Nvidia Shield. Panasonic used to, but I think they've dropped DLNA support. However, be careful because not all players support DLNA. The important thing to remember is that it is only passthrough, which means you have to use HDMI and connect it to an AVR that supports DTS.Īnother option is a Blu Ray player. Also, I believe that DTS has to be in a MKV or TS container, but it might work with MP4 as well. I believe a revised firmware isn't too far off. Roku will play DTS, although there's currently a bug in their firmware. Is there any other options?įire TV does support DLNA by using Kodi or other apps.

Roku boxes do support DLNA but lack on DTS so most of my videos has not sound. I looked at FireTV but it doesn't support DLNA. Rtan wrote:I setup a Serviio server for my LG SmartTV and it works great but now I need to find a streaming device for my other not so smart TV's.

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