Is anyone getting surround sound from UK HD channels?

[JP23]

I've been getting rather frustrated with not being able to get 5.1 output from any HD TV broadcasts.

Is anyone managing to do this? If so, what decoder are you using?

I have tried LAV as suggested in various threads, but no joy.

[imilne]

On the whole, they don't broadcast full 5.1 DD (on freesat) very often, although movies on channel 4 often are. Most stuff just tends to be 2.0 DD.

Note that on freeview it's HE-AAC instead of Dolby Digital so that needs taken into consideration with your codec choices too.

Iain

[Lao Pan]

I've been getting rather frustrated with not being able to get 5.1 output from any HD TV broadcasts.

Is anyone managing to do this? If so, what decoder are you using?

I have tried LAV as suggested in various threads, but no joy.

If you are trying on Freeview, the only place you may get 5.1 is channel 4 - ITV don't do surround and the BBC have been having problems which has mean they are mostly using 2.0 until someone can look at it!
http://www.a516digital.com/2014/01/bbc-i....html#more

To get the 5.1 to your speakers may take some jiggling - The LAV decoder is the only decent HE-AAC one.
If you have 5.1 speakers connected direct to the computer your good to go.

HDMI can do 5.1 pcm Audio but a lot of TV's only accept a stereo input, you may have to have an AV amp with HDMI input.

If like me you are using TOST link (Optical or Coax) you will need to re-encode back to 5.1 to suit your Amp input - I use the Motherboard Realtek DTS encoder to send 5.1DTS to the Amp. Some have Dolby 5.1 otherwise Reclock has a software Dolby encoder (See Iain's Reclock-or-not plugin to use with NPVR)