Dolby Surround intermittently disables rear speakers and switches to front

7.1 uncompressed, mutes my rear surround speaker on bf4 because bf4 doesn't use a rear surround channel. When I set it on bitstream and dolby, the pro logic kicks in and I get my rears to blend in the sound. I recommend leaving it on dolby because then
if a game or movie doesn't have a rear channel, you will still get sound from it, aka pro logic or ES

Hi Proc! Can you verify the sound output setting in your Xbox One Settings menu? (Menu Button -> Settings -> Sound) In the section for Optical Audio, if you are set to Bitstream Out, there should be two sub-options - Dolby Digital and DTS. Often times, even
when a surround system or headset is capable of DTS, it won't output properly until switched over to Dolby Digital (and vice versa.) Experiment with those settings and see if you have any luck!

Also, possibly a dumb suggestion, but do you have a volume control for the separate channels? I know on my old surround system, I had a volume control for the front two speakers, and one for the rear two, which was a pain, because sometimes they got out
of balance or turned completely down. Just a thought, that if you have that, maybe your rear channels are muted or just turned down?

Hello everyone

My xbox is connected to my onkyo (HT-R550) with a optical cable. With movies i get sound through all speakers but with games i only get sound through the front and surround speakers but not the center channel speaker.

Xbox audio settings :

Optical audio out > bitstream

Bitstream format > dolby digital

Now i have tried switching to DTS but the center speaker still does not produce any sound.

The only way i got the center speaker to work was when i switched to stereo uncompressed but i am not pleased with the overall sound quality.

My question is is it normal for games not to produce sound through the center channel speaker when a xbox is connected with a optical cable to a receiver and dolby digital is selected on the xbox?

i got a 32 in vizio at walmart cheap and a great tv. also get a tv that has the speakers in the front of the tv not the rear, i was gonna get a 37 in vizio but the speakers on the 37 in were in the rear. have the store put the sound on a rear speaker tv
& front speaker tv and you'll hear the difference.

They are both incredibly similar in design. Would just have to read reviews and see what pros and cons are mentioned. Amazon customer reviews are great to find out about glaring problems in products. They both share the following stuff.

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• 2x50mm drivers for stereo sound
• a Dolby Decoder unit to downmix 5.1 Dolby Digital into stereo
• 5.8GHz radio communication
• Controller connector for Xbox Live chat

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No headset or speaker system can get 7.1 from the 360 because it only outputs Dolby Digital 5.1 from games. Front Right, Front Left, Center, Rear Right, Rear Left and Subwoofer. Some of the Dolby Decoders synthesize two side channels which make it 7.1 and
then play that through the side speakers or mix them back into 5.1 or stereo for headphones. They are never actually generated from the game engine though.