Got it working by tinkering with the settings now that I know it is enabled. Works well with mxplayer, and I like the external player for vod only setting as well. Thanks

Hardware decoder with built in player. Allow audio pass through, for the rare occasion when you have something more than stereo audio. I haven’t figured out catchup in tivimate, so because of this I go back and forth between tivimate and stbemu, although I really enjoy the layout of tivimate.