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Does anyone know where those Audio format IDs (my term) come from? I see examples where formats with same number of channels and channel order have different IDs, and also examples where a completely different codec has the same ID? e.g. m4a ids 256 and 258 have the same channel layout (per mediainf...

How do we make that happen?

And, speaking of dolby, I guess I should point out that there 2 playback configs that should be supported:

1) decode locally for playback in windows via windows sound (5.1)

2) bitstream over hdmi to an AVR or TV that supports Dolby decoding (or AAC LC???).

Info here seems to indicate we want Dolby encodings (although AAC 5.1 is there and would be higher quality IMHO): https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/08/youtu ... d-tv-roku/

YouTube recently started supporting 5.1 Audio in AAC LC. When using a downloader, these mp4 /m4a files play fine in VLC, however, even after doing this (to get the Youtube links to stream) https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=483226#p483226 , I only get stereo. Is there a preference or another...

Chiming in on related topic, besides being able to play video streams with pre-encoded Dolby Atmos I would like to be able to playback multichannel (discrete channels, not encoded) audio files via hdmi in up to 17 channels as described here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/m...

Hi, I want to experiment with Internet streaming of 5.0 surround sound (Audio Only). I have had success with streaming DTS encoded wav files (44.1K sample rate) however that requires 1.6Mbps so is excessive. I have also been able to transcode to 6 channel mp4 at 512Kbps Questions: 1) When I start wi...