Why doesn't headphone mode switch based on sound input format?

Any of those will work with any audio source. How well depends on the source.

The audio is already decoded to LPCM. TrueHD and DTS master are just zip files for PCM. Any kind of post processing like these modules is added after being decoded.

Dolby has had home systems that work along similar principles since Pro-Logic in the 90s, which provided a center and mono surround channel extracted from information in the 2-channel signal. If the track was not mastered for DPL. It still would do it’s best to provide one.

These modules take the decoded audio, and while they may read flags in the signal are still a post processing mode like any you’d find on a physical receiver (functionally similar to sound eq modes like “dance hall” or “rock concert”), though far more complex.

I’m not sure what you mean by “connual”.

Hello, TripleTopper321. Thanks for reaching out! My name is Lucas. I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user just like you. I'll be happy to assist you today.

You would need to send this suggestion to the Xbox team by the feedback hub or the Xbox idea hub since here on the community there is no Xbox employee responsible for development.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/03/29/engage-u...

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-pro...

Feel free to ask back any questions.

On the link above about the Xbox Idea Hub, it says:

"We welcome responses from any member of the Xbox or gaming community who feels they have a great idea relevant to an existing Idea Drive. Whether you’re a current or former Xbox Insider, or even someone who hasn’t heard of our program, we highly encourage you to get involved!"

So you should add it there. Here on the forum there is no Microsoft or Xbox employee that is responsible for developing/implementing new features.

It's very hard to get things done in Microsoft because one minute they tell you post on the Xbox insiders Reddit and then the second minute they tell you that it's only for the Insiders special new test OS stuff and not for the current version of Xbox.

I don't know where to go with this stuff I go to the places publicly where you should go, but nothing happens

There's like four or five different Xbox places pointing to each other and each sloughing off the responsibility.

Where does the buck stop?

I understand you have to climb a few hurdles to get there but it should work.

By the way the Dolby Atmos headphone app sounds great with any Dolby movie but sounds average with any DTS or LPCM movie.

Simile the DTs X headphone app sounds great with any DTS movie but sounds average with any Dolby or lpcm movie.

I never tried it but I assume Windows Sonic sounds best with lpcm movies directly.

By the way I have it set it so it outputs to headphone so therefore the processing is done before it reaches the surround processor which would be external of the Xbox because the outside surround processor comes after the soundnis passsed out on the Xbox.

Since the surround sound box processes the sound after it goes to the Xbox then it is not the Xbox that processes it into lpcm but the box after the Xbox which processes the Dolby or DTS or native lpcm.

That was a midtyping of "communal"

I understand that LPCM is seven or more individual channels where each speaker represents a single sound Direction.

However I've heard of a device and actually been using on the 360 a Turtle Beach DSS. It takes the input from the toslink port which I assume is coded Dolby 5.1. (it could be coded DTS to but this device doesn't have a DTS decoder) and directly translates it to a two-track headphone sound which sounds like a 3D soundscape.

The Turtle Beach DSS gave very functional directionalism.

I thought the Dolby Atmos headphone app takes any format that is Dolby communal meaning meant for multiple exterior speakers and converts it to two-tracked Dolby headphone.

Only problem is it only works with Dolby stuff.

Thankfully that's what the DTS app is for. It directly converts DTS to two track headphone.

For the Dolby DTS and lpcm to be selected before the conversion accurately the logic must take place to check before those sounds convert which means that if it's converted to lpcm it's too late for a pure Dolby or a pure DTS solution.

And yes I've taken an AC3 soundtrack of a laser disc ran it post AC3 digitization into a Turtle Beach DSS and got accurate headphone sounds and even recordable on a two-track device like a VHS or beta recorder.

There are three ways you could make 3D soundscapes. You could preserve the individual portions in six main directions a center direction for speech and a subwoofer. Or you could convert that to a two-track soundtrack that sounds three-dimensional.

The only catch of it sounding three-dimensional correctly is the form it takes and how it's set up.

It's as old as Nintendo versus Sega. Nintendo decided to use headphone surround because when you have giant headphones on your ears you could control the acoustics around your ears therefore be guaranteed symmetric acoustics therefore can simulate 3D with a single soundtrack on each year.

Sega went the other one which later became known as sound bars, which was Q Sound. Make sure the speakers are pointed both straight ahead both at the same height and both equidistant to the TV. When you have those three conditions it sounds like perfect surround even though it's only two sources.

I think one of those large multi hundreds of multi thousand dollar surround sound boxes take what the native track is assuming an ideal conditions and rebalances it to where the acoustics and the speakers lay.

There's a reason why a lot of gamers wear headphones so they could tell when someone sneak it up behind them or can point at the right angle where the bullets are coming from. That's The Power of surround headphones. If that's not true then explain how people could pick off people behind them when they're not in picture.