Issues with 5.1 Surround Sound with Windows 10

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?

I realize I may not be the end all to knowledge on how all this works. I realize some or most things are streamed in 2 channel format.  I accept that. When something advertises 5.1 channel output I expect it. If I download a movie or some music I pay for....I expect it to play in 5.1.   It doesn't.  My test works fine. DVD's work fine. Music downloaded even in 5.1 format doesn't no matter the app I use to play it. These same items DID play in 5.1 with Windows 7.   The driver would also emulate 5.1 (you could click a box to do so)   I just wish Windows 10 would. It doesn't.  You would think they would get better....not worse with multi media

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Roger is off base?

I replied to two people with an exact, targeted response/solution for their problem, all you do is complain and spout vague, weasel words, refuse to discuss any of the points brought up, and I'm the one that's off base?

You're funny.

Use Linux, or is it that Windows, however much you hate it, must be better? Think about that, or switch.

Most of us complaining is from NOT EVEN BEING ABLE to INSTALL something like an ASUS 5.1 Sound card. No browsers here. We run the driver install process and at the end of it Windows 10 say's "good Job" on installing your new Stereo system. Then you go to test, the dialog box shows a 5 speaker layout, however, though the graphic shows 5 speakers emitting sound, only the left & right speaker makes a sound, no browser here. Oh, lets not forget the totally silly sound analyzer with the cartoon girl picture. What a totally useless piece of **** code I've ever seen. I could write a small book on Windows 10 and it's compound failures! In 7 years of Windows 7 I may have had 3 blue screens! What happened to the ghostly Windows 8 and all the wasted money on that Turkey!

Good point on Bill,your right. With regards to drivers? BS! We can send a lander to Mars and cannot figure out how to make a few speakers work?