Transform Your Audio Landscape A Guide to Mastering VLC Passthrough

I am trying to passthrough Dolby Atmos content to an AV receiver from an older Acer laptop, but the audio passthrough option is not present in VLC. 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 ... 1.3 software update. However, when streaming MKV's with TrueHD audio streams, VLC just puts out PCM and does not do passthrough. ... (passthrough) is enabled or not, I do not get 5.1 audio. I get ... The AC3 5.1 audio can be passthrough to my receivers correctly using VLC ... 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 ... VLC may passthrough but it still depends on your device audio settings. For example, if you're using a firestick then VLC is your software ... Then make sure your players audio (like VLC) is configured [to properly downmix]. In VLC try the different audio options for dolby surround ( ... 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) ... ... make life a ... VLC app in order to have 5.1 multichannel audio output: [Settings] > [Extra Settings] > [Audio] > [Digital audio output (passthrough)]. Digital audio output (passthrough) - Many modern smartphones comes with built-in support for enhanced audio output capabilities such as Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and ...