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

[HP-mini]

On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 21:19 -0500, John Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 12:32 +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > 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:

> > 
> That is exactly what the Sony tech support guy said.  Which left my
> problem unresolved so I did my own research and found out Sony jacked
> the bitrate for DolbyDigital to 640kbps for the BD spec.  No DVD or DTV
> stream is encoded at such a high rate, 480kbps being the highest.

Pink Floyd Pulse DVD has 640Kbps AC3 audio.
In fairness there is a warning message stating some older equip will not
work.