Unlock the Audio Potential of VLC A Comprehensive Passthrough Guide

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 ... How to enable all supported audio codecs on an Nvidia 1050Ti, configure VLC and Kodi to send bitstream and/or PCM to a Marantz AVR. I can't seem to get my hi res audio playback to pass-through at the source format when I'm playing directly from my drive with an app like VLC or Foobar. Tools -> Preferences - Audio ->HDMI/SPDIF audio pass through - select 'Enabled', save and exit preferences. Other options would be to use MPC-HC ... [0000000001f844f0] vlcpulse audio output error: digital pass-through stream connection failure: Not supported ... What do you mean by my 'phone ... a. Right click on the Speaker icon in the system tray and click on Playback devices. b. Make sure your rear speakers are set ... So I'm back to trying to figure out how to get audio passthrough working on either Raspberry Pi OS, or some other OS that runs on the Pi and can run VLC, or ... My understanding is that passthrough is the best setting to have as this means the sound is not processed by the tv and is instead sent straight the receiver. 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) ... Try Infuse, it can do a few more audio formats. It's not free though. It will however play several video formats better than VLC, especially ...