Issues with 5.1 Surround Sound with Windows 10

It is a LICENSING issue.

The ONLY Windows version that came with free DVD software player is Windows 7. You had to pay extra money for Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Vista Home Premium, and Windows 8 Media Center Pack.

It is clearly spelt out in Dolby's licensing agreement. If you want Edge browser to play Dolby Audio stuff, then pay for it.

Quote:

"Windows Licensing Program

If you would like to license the Dolby Audio™ technologies included in the Microsoft Windows® operating system, please complete the questionnaire on the Windows Licensing Program page and indicate how many devices your OEM company will be making per year. Based on your response, we will assist you with obtaining a new licensing agreement to support the use of Dolby Audio™ (supporting Dolby Digital Plus™) in Windows and which will be natively supported by the new Microsoft Edge browser for the playback of web-based content as well as accessible by third-party Windows Store and Universal apps. You must have an agreement with Dolby prior to the shipment of any Windows devices."

https://professional.dolby.com/licensing/

What does Microsoft has to do with this? In the last 20 years, Microsoft only paid for it for 3 years when Windows 7 came out.

The sooner people realize that this is a MONEY issue that nobody is paying for it, the sooner people will stop complaining Microsoft for not fixing a "technical" issue.

I got 5.1 working in Chrome.  There's a hosted extension on GitHub called netflix1080p.  Can confirm 5.1 does work in Chrome for Netflix streams with this extension enabled (developer mode).  I can get 1920x1080 resolution now also, as the name implies. 

Download the source and unpack it

Enable Developer mode in extensions

Load the unpacked extension

Make sure Use 5.1 is checked off in Extensions Options (off by default)

Clear browser cache and close the browser

It also unlocks the video bitrate/current CDN window (ctrl+alt+shift+s), if you want to play around. 

Here's my audio stream: Audio Track: en, Id: A:1:1;6;en;1;, Channels: 5.1, Codec: audio/mp4;codecs=mp4a.40.2

Hope this helps some of you.

I have used Firefox for years. 5.1 is not currently supported while streaming on a computer using Microsoft Silverlight or HTML5. However, it is supported in the Netflix app for Windows 8 and Windows 10. If a movie is encoded with H 264 or H265 it should play 5.1 Why advertise that if it doesn't. All of this is  not relevant to my original post. Windows 7 had this working great. Even if it came in on 2.0 a person could emulate 5.1 with a click. It wasn't perfect but it did "sound" better. That went away both in windows and driver support. Microsoft went backwards on this issue and hasn't addressed this it seems. Why else would so many have a problem with this? If it does work why make it so difficult for an answer?

Hi Peer Simie

I spent hours last night on a Microsoft chat and did take over control of my PC, who confirmed she could see everything was correctly installed and working as it should.

Since last night I have got windows media player working using 5.1 DTS Connect ticked with Enhancements enabled. but stereo on the internet. before the last Edge and window updates 5.1 played , but opening Chrome only was Stereo.

I have now tried opening the firewall to audio with no effect. 

this has to be a windows update problem and windows need to go back to seen watch fix is needed to pass security issues windows 10 has with this problem so many users are having in my opinion.

I look forward to a reply and feel free to get InTouch and take over my pc and see my set up now?

Regards 

Ian

Windows 10 user

Ok. Point taken.

Which browser do you use? (Edge is Chrome).

When you download a movie that's 5.1, are you streaming or downloading, and if so, in what format? From where? 

Even with the max available quality settings on Netflix, they only play 2.0

Are you downloading a ripped version? Nudge Nudge, say no more!