Videoplayer passthrough for live tv streams

Is this off the table permanently? If so, what platforms are affected?

To be clear, I’m not trying to sound unappreciative of fermetmenta’s work. I’m just trying to understand if PCM conversion for live TV (real-time) audio is all that we will have in the future. Is there some technical reason that audio/video syncing has to be accomplished by adjusting the playback speed of the audio instead of using something else such as frame duping or dropping. Just trying to learn something here and create a single location where this can be discussed, rather than it being scattered throughout the forum.

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