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I like 5.1 sound better than stereo Well that's an understatement! Of course if 5.1 is available in your living room like almost every home theater out there, that's what you want. Sure, my receiver can do stereo but even a $450 theater-in-a-box system is 5.1. The VLC player completely fails here.

I'm having the same problem as the others. With Windows Media Player, E-AC-3 gets passed to my Yamaha receiver and my 5.1 speaker setup works fine. The front of the receiver reads "STRAIGHT" and all the speakers are active. With VLC, it does not work. The front of the receiver indicates PC...