Dear all,
I'm watching movies lot through my iMac, and I'm using a great sound system 7.1ch. When I played Dolby or DTS 5.1ch movie every thing are awesome. However, when I played Dolby TrueHd or DTS-HA it went wrong. I can't play a TrueHd or DTS-HA. Anyone knows?
iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS Sierra (10.12.6)
If you are looking for passthrough of those audio formats to
your audio system, your out of luck. The graphics chips in the
iMac (as well as most any other computer) lack what is known as
a "protected audio path". There are only a handful of computer GPUs
that support it.
What you would require is software that has licensed CODECs that
can decode into multichannel PCM. You would then need to find
an HDMI adapter (HDMI can support 24bit, 192KHz, 7.1) or a USB3
adapter to provide 7.1 audio out.
It doesn't state in the specs whether the 3.5mm line out still supports
optical, but even if it did, it does not have the bandwidth for these higher
quality audio formats (limitation of the TOSLINK technology, not the Mac).
What I have tried are:
1- VLC
2- Movist
3- Kodi
4- BLU-Ray player Pro
All of them are capable of run movies ( Dolby-DTS ) which, 5.1ch.
Thx
Have you tried this kind of passthrough? if you have, please show me some pictures of yours and explain to me step by step. It would be helpful.
Have you tried VLC?
how play a TrueHD and DTS-HA on my iMac 2017?
