What happens instead is missing channels. I am only getting 2.0 sound. Surrounds, center and subwoofer are missing. I ran an app in the App Store called surround sound test and verified that to be true.
It used to process 5.1 just fine. It wasn’t until 14.3 or 14.4 that everything broke. I have researched this issue and a large number of users were having the same issue but many of them reported it fixed in 14.5. Sadly I am not seeing that.
VIZIO SB-512-F6 is the device I am connected to.
What I have been reading is it is suspected to be involved with Apple not passsing through 5.1 like it does Atmos but rather reprocesses and sends it after and something involving that process is not working correctly. But I am looking to see if others have the same problem still or if Apple is aware.
I have not tried forcing 5.1 and I will try it and report back. However I don’t see that as a great solution because it disables atmos so having to go back and forth to settings to manually set it is a very poor and “un-Apple” user experience. This of course assumes it makes any difference. I will report back.
If I watch the same content on the smart TV via the Apple TV app, I have no issues so I know it is something the Apple TV is doing.
