7.1 uncompressed will not use the side surrounds when watching tv! Please fix with an update.

WillyBurz · Jan 18, 2015

Everything is connected correctly, and I have been waiting for over a year now on an update! 7.1 uncompressed will NOT use the side surrounds at all when watching tv, only the back surrounds are used. My system is setup correctly, and its a fix on Microsofts
end that is needed.

:)

WillyBurz · Jan 18, 2015

Two years in, and 7.1 Uncompressed still does not work correctly with any source outside of Games.

I have a 7.1 system set up correctly, and 7.1 uncompressed will NOT use the side surrounds at all on any content outside of gaming, it just throws all surround to the back wall surround speakers... NOTHING comes out of the side surrounds. Why has Microsoft
not corrected this...Either fix it to use all 4 surrounds correctly by doubling up the output to each, or a suedo 7.1 Matrixed coding...Just do something, as the side surrounds have never received sound outside of gaming since the release of the system!

HomerVhato · Jan 18, 2015

Vudu: no surround at all with 7.1 output

When choosing 7.1 Uncompressed I only hear 3.1 (Left, Center, Right+Sub) with no surround at all. Change settings to 5.1 uncompressed or DTS and surround in Vudu works properly. Games and Netflix play surround properly when 7.1 is chosen.

Tcox22 · Jan 18, 2015

Did you update to the February preview? I'm having the same issue only with a soundbar instead of a 7.1 system. Everything sounds fine when I play a game or when a notification comes through, but I have no rear channel audio through the TV app.

Richiestang78 · Jan 18, 2015

Most TV stations are only in 5.1.

WillyBurz · Oct 31, 2018

This has been a problem since the Ones release and not been fixed. Richie...ugh, Yes most are in 5.1, Sooooo the One should either matrix the rears, or duplicate the rears with the l/r surrounds. There should be sound coming out of the main surrounds,
NOT just the rear surrounds. For example- 5.1 should be coming out of the main surrounds, and matrixed to the rear surrounds, OR just duplicate the main surrounds to the rear surrounds as well in a 7.1 setup. Right now, all 5.1 from a directv receiver that
sends dolby is silent on the main surrounds, and only using the rear surrounds in a 7.1 setup. Ps. My system is setup correctly, so no bs checking setup posts, etc. Something is off on the coding, and needs to be fixed.

Richiestang78

Most TV stations are only in 5.1.

WillyBurz

This has been a problem since the Ones release and not been fixed. Richie...ugh, Yes most are in 5.1, Sooooo the One should either matrix the rears, or duplicate the rears with the l/r surrounds. There should be sound coming out of the main surrounds,
NOT just the rear surrounds. For example- 5.1 should be coming out of the main surrounds, and matrixed to the rear surrounds, OR just duplicate the main surrounds to the rear surrounds as well in a 7.1 setup. Right now, all 5.1 from a directv receiver that
sends dolby is silent on the main surrounds, and only using the rear surrounds in a 7.1 setup. Ps. My system is setup correctly, so no bs checking setup posts, etc. Something is off on the coding, and needs to be fixed.

Tcox22

Did you update to the February preview? I'm having the same issue only with a soundbar instead of a 7.1 system. Everything sounds fine when I play a game or when a notification comes through, but I have no rear channel audio through the TV app.

jmcode

That's simply incorrect. The Xbox One has output surround sound since its release-- DTS and 5.1/7.1 uncompressed multichannel PCM over HDMI. Until the last update, it did not support outputting a compressed Dolby Digital bitstream, which is what is needed
for optical (because optical can't carry uncompressed 5.1/7.1). It does now, however.

OP, it sounds like you are selecting 5.1/7.1 uncompressed, which is not supported by TVs (that is for a receiver (AVR))--and that is why you can't select it when HDMI is set to Auto. Most likely your TV is just seeing it as 2.0 (stereo) audio. You need
to set the Xbox One audio to bitstream with Dolby Digital encoding. Even then, please be aware that very few TVs pass DD 5.1 from an HDMI source out though the optical out. What you may end up getting is virtual surround sound, not true discrete 5.1.

darealestwun

One problem is when watching tv through the x box if the broadcast is in stereo, like for a non hd channel, even though you have 7.1 uncompressed selected, nothing is being output by the surrounds or rear surrounds. There is no pro logic like matrixing
of sources less than 7.1 channels like your receiver would do if it was receiving the raw bitstream data from the xbox, which it isn't. It makes me want to plug my converter box back into my avr instead of the xbox

7.1 uncompressed will not use the side surrounds when watching tv! Please fix with an update.