[mythtv-users] Can mythtv (or mplayer/xine through mythtv) upmix 5.1 sound in 6.1 or 7.1?

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 10 October 2013 08:17, John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 19:09 -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>
>> Just 6.1.  I've seen a lot of 5.1, 7.1, and 7.2 receivers, but I don't
>> recall ever seeing a 6.1 one.
>
> I just retired one.  A Sony that did 6.1 so you could play DTS encoded
> DVD content.  Which it did flawlessly.... what it wouldn't do was play
> DolbyDigital from a BluRay due to the increased bitrate over DVD and
> Digital TV.  Thus retired.  But I got about a decade out of it.

all bluray are supposed to have a DTS and AC3 (5.1) compatible stream.
It should still work