5.1 Channel Surround Sound Problem

Recently, I just bought new harman kardon home theater which support 5.1 surround sound. And I connected it through HDMI. But my macbook only detect 2 output channel instead of 5. What should I do?

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Posted on Aug 10, 2020 9:53 AM

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