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It is selected, if it wasn't, DTS audio from movies would not be sent to the SPDIF output.

Yes it does, but only for movies.

It seems VLC player simply can't send raw DTS data of music files to SPDIF out. I think you should make this a sticky post so that people will not have to waste time trying.

I have this problem too. It seems VLC player doesn't support DTS audio passthrough from music files. Foobar2000 player can send the raw dts data to the soundcard optical output, you can see how to do this in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=64664

Just to let you know, I can successfully play DTS music files using foobar2000 and the SPDIF passthrough plugin (http://www.ga.cba.pl/). I just want to know if it is possible with VLC and how to do it.

Same problem here.

Hi, I've searched the forum for answers but I couldn't find any. I have a .wav music file with 5.1 DTS sound and would like to play it with VLC passing it through to my receiver via SPDIF output. I can play movies with 5.1 DTS sound easily (the receiver correctly identifies the sound as DTS), but mu...