Elevate Your VLC Audio A Step-by-Step Guide to Passthrough

... VLC or WMP, and I get no audio, just video. Then when I use the Windows speaker setup/test, it plays the height/rear sound out of the side. In VLC I had two HDMI audio devices to choose from 'HDMI' and 'Encoded HDMI' (or something like that - I'll have to hook it up again to be sure) ... There you can find checkboxes to enable S/PDIF pass-through for AC3 and DTS audio. If you also want to send the audio from other audio formats ... Step 1: Go to VLC Player > Menu > Tools > Preferences > Advanced Preference. Step 2: Click the Audio tab from the left list, make sure you have choose the All ... Then make sure your players audio (like VLC) is configured [to properly downmix]. In VLC try the different audio options for dolby surround ( ... When I play the BD (Avatar) directly with VLC audio routing is OK. ... Correct, but OP also needs to make sure the entire audio chain is 5.1 or ... Thank you for the quick response, I have confirmed that VLC player is OFF, I can still only get two channel playback. is there anything else can I try? Schwarz ... The internal HiMedia player worked fine but I seem to have started having problems with it...especially losing network connection. I tried VLC ... Never been able to get passthrough to work using ALSA as a result, no 5.1 audio on either VLC, MPV, mplayer or Kodi. (Kodi passthrough using ... In VLC->preferences->audio look for HDMI/SPDIF pass-through is this set to disabled or enabled ? If disabled then the audio is decoded to PCM ...