VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting • Windows 11 – Dolby Digital vs Dolby PLII Movie ?



Hi there,

I’ve recently switched to a fresh install of W11 and also decided to ditch Kazaa/MPC in favour of VLC (as I was using this on my Rog Ally and was very pleased with it)
I’m no audiophile so bear with me :
– I accidentally opened a file with the default Media Player and noticed on my Logitech receiver that the sound was detected as being Dolby Digital. I have a 5.1 setup and it sounded unexpectedly great…
– Tried to replicate this with VLC but no matter what I do, my receiver detects the sound as Dolby PLII Movie… And this sounds “worse” (/not as good) as the default Media Player

As I want to play my media with VLC, does anyone have any idea(s) what this might be? I’ve looked around and enabled “Force S/PDIF Support” and also the HDMI/SPDIF Audio Passthrough (set to “Enabled (AC3/DTS only”)

thanks so much!

Statistics: Posted by echdaron — 04 Jun 2024 19:57