On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Igor Cicimov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:icicimov@gmail.com">icicimov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">usually no.<br>
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The TV will only pass stereo PCM through their audio output.<br>
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The only way you can enjoy surround in most scenarii is if you're<br>
connected as so:<br>
mythtv -> amp -> TV<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>As I suspected :-(</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Jean-Yves for saving me from useless efforts and testing.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>
Igor</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the TV shows or movies with Dolby Digital sound play fine on the surround and I can hear sound from the back speakers as well. Or this doesn't mean I have 5.1 playback? This was pretty much the reason I believed I can do it the way I described above thinking if the TV is passing the DD sound from the free to air channels then why it wouldn't do so for the MythTV signal as well?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hmmm very confusing. Is the TV doing some down mixing of the audio stream I wonder to convert it to stereo?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again for your time.</div><div><br></div><div>Igor</div></div>