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I have this issue with every EAC3 DD+ file I play with VLC. AS I stated in previous post other media players seem to handle it just fine. my questions are: 1. Is VLC interpreting DD+ (eac3) incorrectly and seeing it as 3F 2M /LFE and passing that info to my receiver and my receiver is saying WTF! an...

Please share such file with us.

Here is the file as requested:

http://mystuff.myqnapcloud.com:8080/sha ... id=08bw4B8

I have the same issue https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... c3#p461798

I have the same issue using VLC 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 ALSA output HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0 Audio Output Stereo Is Codec: A/52 B Audio (aka E-AC3) (eac3) Channels: 3F2M/LFE Sample rate: 48000 Hz Bits per sample: 32 being passed through HDMI as 5.1 PCM because my receiver can handle 5.1 PCM and it receiv...

I am currently running Ubuntu LTS 16.04.2 and pulseaudio 8.0 (Qnap NAS ts-453a i am not sure if it is possible or that I know how to update to pulseaudio v10 or if this would resolve my issue). There is an issue with my pulseaudio only sending 2.1 PCM to the AVR. Until i figure out how to upgrade it...

edit: I see this is from 5 years ago, there is no further update or work around for this Pulseaudio cause additional headaches. It would be awesome if VLC supported Bitstream HDMI pass-through to the AVR and let the AVR just do all the work :D Or if VLC had an interface to manually map/reassign the ...