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I have a somewhat similar issue I cant find the solution for, for the life of me. I have an A/V receiver with 7.1 channel AUX input through 8 female RCA jacks it can directly put through to speakers. I have a motherboard (ASUS TUF Z690 Gaming Wifi D4)with built in 7.1 support, 5 3.5mm AUX female ports (Line In/side speakers :blue, Line Out/Front :green, C/Sub :orange, Rear :black, Mic In :pink, ), as well as Toslink optical out. I have 4 male 3.5mm AUX to dual RCA adapters connecting these directly. HOWEVER! When I connect to the female Front Speaker and Line In, the PC asks what jack I just plugged in, lets me select (Side Speakers out or Line In?). The PROBLEM comes in when I plug in the other 2 jacks into the SPECIFICALLY LABELED Rear and C/Sub. It doesn't ask me what to do with either of those 2 jacks like it did the others, it just says, "you have plugged a device into the audio jack". the A/V receiver is successfully getting and playing Center out, Sub out, and Side Speaker out. I finally set up a Microsoft account just to get the Dolby trial and it did nothing. I've tried everything. at best I can only get simulated 5.1 from the optical. I'm SO lost. Could you please help me? I'm practically ready to hire a geeksquad guy... if I could afford it X.X
Watched like 8 of these 5.1 "fix," videos for my LG C1 OLED that my PC outputs to in ARC then back from my TV to 5.1 receiver. Not only was this the first solution to work it was by far the simplest solution.
I have been frustrated with how to connect my PC to my AV Receiver to play my multi-channel audio files. It has been a long time without success. I have an ONKYO HTR393 AV receiver that has a special HDMI input port for PC, when I tried to plug in the cables, it was detected on the PC that it supports 5.1 on the sound card, when I tested it I found out it was only stereo. Now, after following the steps in your video, WOW! AMAZING, it works, I get 5.1 audio. You are great, may you have lots of fortune, thank you very much my friend 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you!! I tried everything, but this actually worked :D For everyone wondering, this was my problem: Recently, I switched from PS5 to PC (self-built / z790 Gaming X AX; i5 13600k; RTX 4070ti; Windows 11). And I've been using the Astro A50 (Gen 4) as my PlayStation(s) headset for years. So obviously, because I was happy with the sound, I wanted to keep using it with the new PC setup (If the Astro a50 is good for the price or the fact that you could get better audio quality for less money, for example with Beyerdynamic headsets, is a different story). Astros console setup: connect the base station with your console by using the optical cable (for consoles without an optical out, you have to use an HDMI/optical splitter) and plug the microUSB in for voice chat and power supply. You could also plug the micro-usb into a pc to use it on discord or whatever. Also set the console audio format to bitstream (Dolby) and the input format to Dolby Digital 5.1ch. And activate the Dolby feature on the headset -> FOR ME, fantastic GAMING sound. Astros PC Setup: ONLY use the microUSB cable to connect the base station to your PC. So the optical cable is no longer required. Enable Dolby access and put the headset in passthrough mode (deactivate the built-in Dolby feature). -> apparently works for most people......they "love" the sound. For me, this sounds sh*t! So I wanted to get the "old" console sound on my PC by using the optical cable. My motherboard has an optical out, so why not use it as the default audio out..... and set the microUSB sound as the default communication device? Then I realized that you couldn't change the audio format to Dolby Digital..... Obviously, the headset with the enabled Dolby feature sounds sh*t, when you feed it with a "2 channel 16 bit XYZ Hz" signal. -> YOU NEED the Dolby Digital format. And that's the point where this tutorial comes in *_* So after this patch, I could finally set my format for the SPDIF to Dolby Digital, and my headset worked exactly like it did on console! If anyone else is having similar issues, I hope this helps. And once again, thank you!
OH MY GOD!!! Thank you a thousand times! The amount of time I've wasted with obscure windows drivers and reinstalling all kind of crap had frustrated me beyond the point of giving up. I've literally revisited this over 8 times in 2 years without any success, every time wasting between 1-3 hours, until today! I cannot express how thankful I am for this!! Good to know APO 2.10.6 was not available for me (seems to have been removed), so I used 2.10.5 instead and it worked like a charm.
O miracle! long-term dances with a tambourine!!! Replacement sound blasters, newest receivers... looking for rear channels My respect and many thanks. I firmly shake your hand!
Oh wow this actually worked! I previously tried another instruction I found where you're meant to apply a patch to Realtek drivers, but that did nothing for me. This did! I have Windows 10 and onboard audio on an old Intel mini-ITX motherboard. I only have a 3.1 setup, which basically sounded fine through my old amp's Dolby Pro Logic II decoder, which can simulate multichannel from a stereo signal. But it was still annoying that I had to go that way when all the hardware involved is capable of digital multi channel playback. Now my old amp correctly recognizes that it's receiving digital multichannel (display changes from DPLII to Digital). Thanks a whole, whole lot for taking the time to make this video!
I've heard so many times it's to much of a hassle to get DD running as standard on PC, so I never bothered to really look into it. I wish I had. Your guide worked flawlessly, and many many thanks for sharing it
I am watching this 2 years later and it absolutely still does the trick! It really seems insane to me there isn't a button somewhere for "Hey idiot, this thing can accept 5.1. Just trust me!"
WOWWWWWWWWWW I LOVE YOU MAN ! I bought a usb sound card with SPDIF output and i only getting PCM 2 CH emulation for all my speakers. Now i installed this apo driver and the tab now allows me to select dolby digital and apply ! To make your video more excellent, my tip for everyone to block Windows defender mess around with our driver you can do this: Before install Apo driver, disable all windows defender, install Apo driver and go to windows defend and add a exclusion file like this path C:\Users\Eduardo Medeiros\AppData\Roaming\PureSoftApps\APO Driver 2.10.6\install\B0FA0A2 ealtek.hd.sound.driver-patch.exe replace Eduardo Medeiros with your users name and u can turn on windows defender and won't mess with ur apo driver ! Thank you my man. One question can i install dolby and DTS both ? You rock !
Funciona se conseguir instalar mais só e possível usar um a cada vez tem que trocar de acordo com o suporte que o dispositivo de destino for compativel
YESSSSS!! oh my goodness! I have struggled with the particular issue of surrounds playing through the front speakers for almost a year now, this fixed it, I can't say thank you enough! While the 5.1 tests on UA-cam don't ever work for me, my movies do now. Thank you thank you thank you!!
@@Limitless1201 and your welcome haha glad it helped please like and subscribe also we support donations via PayPal now have fun with surround sound mate
Just noticed a 1s delay when starting the audio, is that normal? @@SirQuacksalotthe1st Changed to chanel 2, 24 bit, 960000hz and the delay was removed.
This works FLAWLESSLY. Windows 11 Pro, OS Build 22621.1413, with Realtek USB 2.0 Audio, ALC4060 CODEC, and an add in S/PDIF card attached to the S/PDIF header on my Asus ROG Strix B650-A motherboard. I now get 5.1 surround VIA Toslink through my Yamaha RX-V485 5.1 receiver. THANK YOU!!!
My problem is with Atmos. In windows if Atmos is selected then I get two channel audio when playing UA-cam even with Dolby surround selected at the receiver. I have a new Atmos receiver connected through a Nvidia 3080 HDMI. Atmos upmixer does nothing. All content encoded with Atmos, or DD works flawless. If I select Sonic for Headphones, in audio properties then UA-cam will play through the surround speakers but then Atmos encoded content will only play in Dolby Digital. So, I have to switch back and forth depending on the content I'm watching. So, the problem is Atmos for windows is telling my AVR to receive 8 channels and UA-cam is only sending two channels resulting in only two channels playing no matter what is selected at the receiver. So, I need to somehow force UA-cam/Microsoft Edge to output through all available channels no matter what the content is encoded as. I know there has got to be a way because when I use the Tidal app it will play music through all channels and when I play music with the Media Monkey app it plays through all channels. Even with Atmos enabled. (SIGH)! Thanks for reading all that.
Unfortunately yes dobly won't work with out upnixing what you could try is apo eq using it as a simple audio filter and copying the front stereo channels to the rear and center and sup this video is purely for fixing dobly digital not Atmos how ever for what you want that should do it equalizerapo.com/download.html
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I use Equalizer Apo and you know, I never thought about trying that. I'm not well educated in how to use Apo. I use REW to generate my eq setting and export it to Apo. Thats about as much as I have learned but I know it will do so much more. Thanks for the tip. I really appreciate it.
Here is my work around just in case this may be helpful to anyone else. Also, for others that are having trouble with audio disappearing every time you close then open UA-cam this will fix that also. First delete Nvidia audio drivers and let Windows install generic HD audio drivers. You will notice in your device audio properties under (supported formats) Atmos is now listed. It was not before. Next, go to (advanced) and select your desired sample rate then (spatial sound) and select Windows sonic for headphones. Thats is all. When playing UA-cam Dolby surround will play through all speakers and when playing Netflix or Hulu or Disney+ Atmos will play correctly. No need to switch audio properties in Windows anymore. So, the culprit is NVidia's drivers. I can't blame them entirely though. I do believe that Dolby has a big part to play in all the problems people are having with Atmos by trying to keep they're license proprietary. Good luck!
Hi there. I have RTX 4090 HDMI (win10 pro) => LG OLED C3 => Soundbar Samsung Q930C (via eARC). When I try to use Atmos for home theater via the DOLBY ACCESS APP, my TV detects the sound and shows "Dolby Atmos" for few seconds, but all I get is a sort of stereo upmix from my soundbar. I can't seem to have it work with each indivisual speaker. Whatever source I play it stays like this in Stereo. Example, when I click on say the rear left speaker in windows setting with Dolby Atmos on, I get sound from all left speakers at the same time. However when I'm NOT using ATMOS but 7.1 channel configuration in windows settings, it works okay and each speaker has its own sound, and surround sound video play correctly. I don't really understand why that is. I've tried to tweak settings between DOLBY ACCESS APP and Windows sound settings with no luck. Any clue on how to fix this? Thanks in advance for your help.
There's alot to talk about there I can explain and half try and fix it but it would be easier to do so in my discord server as talking is easier then texting if you can join my discord I'd be happy to try and help you out
@@SirQuacksalotthe1stIt suddenly stopped working now. Tried uninstalling, cleaning registry and installing again. but advanced is not showing 'dolby' option 😞
Tried both of your tutorials and unortunately I still only get the front and center, the dolby shows up as you showed and in the tv sound settings but its still only giving out the front and center and making the sides and rears act on fronts? Do you have any other suggestion, Im on windows 11
@@DaMainMouse unfortunately windows 11 has a load of issues with surround sound that are not fixable however I may be able to help people out sometime on discord on fixing your sound issue
I did not follow the removal of the apo + reinstall and the ccleaner part. Yet I still got the Dolby digital tab in advanced (But the test only does the 2 front speakers) and the dolby tab. So I guess it worked since sound can technically play from it? Unfortunately no matter what I do running a 4.1 setup. I cannot get the 2 front speakers to stop making playing the surround sound of the 2 back speakers, and the 2 back speakers are silent no matter what I do, except when its on a windows default 24bit 48khz setting and then the receiver has one of the shitty "Sound official" buttons like THX, Dolby, Prologic etc filter types. And even then the back speakers are quiet af even though they work. Just wish I knew it was a PC or receiver problem. Some people say its a problem of RCAs and SPDIFs being only fit for stereo audio on PC for some BS reasons, and you have to have a newer receiver with HDMI support to link to your gpu instead of your motherboard to actually get surround sound on PC. If thats the case I screwed myself on buying this expensive rca/spdif only receiver.
Sounds like a reviver problem spdif is perfectly fine for 5.1 as long as it's not hd if you want to see if we can fix your problems add me on. Discord and will see what we can do
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I got bought a new receiver and have the same problem lol. There must be something seriously wrong with dolby digital, and/or realtek sound drivers or something
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Thanks for the offer but I figured out that the problem was just that Dolby access is the app you need installed and setup to get proper working surround sound on PC. So dolby digital sound options are irrelevant until thats fixed. Might you have a neat guide on getting dolby atmos to work on a receiver or PC audio drivers that may not support it?
@@BioChemistryWizard first good to hear you got it working second not really true as the dobly driver mod offers true and perfectly fine working surround sound it's just a older standard as for dobly Atmos kinda pointless because most movies and games are not in Atmos format and if my brain. Remember correctly doesn't do backwards compatibility with dobly digital or dobly true hd unless they updated it as such I see no point in making a video on a standard that's useless for most people if it has been updated to work with older standers though I'll happily make a guide as it will be much more consumer friendly best of luck with it though ✋🙏
Thank you for advice! Btw Which version of APO driver works good with Home Theatre V4 app? Seem's like the app is awaiting the previous version of dolby driver
I had a question, what if you install Dolby Digital Plus Home Theater (HDMI/SPDIF) instead of home theater v4? Will it still out put 5.1 via SPDIF/TOSLINK? From what i've known SPDIF/TOSLINK cant do Dolby Digital Plus.
@@Amitgatte yes and no optical is blocked from supporting dobly digital plus but as we're patching it manually it's possibly may work why not do it and see what happens mate ? for more information on optical and dobly plus Give this a read www.techdim.com/does-optical-cable-support-dolby-digital-plus/
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Alright, will redo everything again as i was using Home Theater v4 and it was working flawlessly. Hoping for dolby digital plus to work, i am sure many people may have tried. Will let you know if it works.
I've been at this all day and the Dolby Digital option just never appears as an option in the dropdown list. I've done the CCleaner and all that but it is never available. I do get the Dolby tab but have no way to set it.
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I'm having the same issue. My system is a LG SP7R soundbar with woofer and rear speakers and can do DTS and Dolby Digital Plus. I'm connected via optical from my MSI MPG B550 Gaming Edge Wifi and also tried via HDMI from my Nvidia card to the TV then optical out from the TV (which I confirmed can output DTS and Dolby and works fine on my Xbox and PS5). I also tried 2.10.6 and 2.10.5 for APO as well. I get the Dolby tab in properties but no Dolby under Advanced.
Man, it worked like a champ. Im super impressed, because i tried a lot of tutorials on youtube, and You are the first one to show real deal. THANK YOU.
FX Configurator is not opening even as Administrator annd I didn't find from where to install "Dolby Home Theather", but he said it is for older receivers. My Receiver has all including Dolby Tue HD, but does not have Atmos, as it is a few years older. I manage to enable k-lite codecs in Windows Media Player to select all checkmarks for DTS, Dobly D+ etc, and if the movie I downloaded ahs the codec, my Receiver automatically displays DTS Master, True HD, Dolby D+, but I want to be able to play HBOMax in a browser and have 5.1 on all movies it shows it available. Newer Movies come with Atmos, so I don't expect it to work, but Pro Logic II works for a decent sound for HBOMax at the moment. I wish I could make it encode DD_/DTS. Any help why FX Configurator does not start on my windows 11? I cannot map the rest of the steps and got nowhere selecting the codecs as shown:(
i have the msi z87 g45 gaming motherboard with logitech z506 speakers should i select the speakers to patch or realtech software? the speakers are connected with 3 AUX cables
@@Dennis737H your not using a Dolby enabled device so the steps are different select the speaker device your using for you speaker setup then when it comes to selecting Dolby v4 look for the one that says analog instead though if your genuinely wanting to use Dolby I'd recommend getting a USB dac with analog 3.5 ,5.1 out and I'm not using a analog setup so I don't personally know if it will show up or not unfortunately most people today have all switched to digital I've not used a analog setup since the early 2010s
Thank you sir! It really helped! My setup is from my laptop (windows 11 with nvidia driver) to TV via HDMI. The TV is via optical so I can get surround sound through my speakers.
Couldn't make it work on Windows 11 Pro, sending audio through an LG C1 and connected to the TV's SPDIF. I see the Dolby tab, but it doesn't show "Dolby Digital" on Default Format, at the Advanced tab. The only thing that is Dolby related there is the "Dolby Atmos for Home Theater", which was there since before this I've tried uninstalling, running CCleaner and rebooting, to no avail. Dolby tab comes up, but I can't select Dolby Digital on the Default Format drop down, neither click the ON button on the Dolby tab (it crashes the audio window) Am I doing something wrong?
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Thanks! I ended managing to make it display Dolby Digital. I was trying to do it while the device was set to Dolby Atmos, so although the tab was there, I couldn't select Dolby Digital. Sadly, when it's correctly set just like your video, it still sounds bad (5.1 videos works, but stereo videos - basically every video that there is on UA-cam - only uses the center channel), just like it did with Dolby Atmos setting
Hi, thanks for the video! Im gonna give it a shot. Can you poi t me to the download for the dolby home thearter driver? The one listed in the bottom? Thank you quacks a lot!
Can anyone help me? I've gone through this whole process and am also using HDMI Arc with a receiver, but after going through the steps, the Dolby tab never appears on the sound properties of my tv and in the Advanced tab, Dolby Digital is also no where to be seen. I've done the whole CCleaner song and dance but ultimately it changed nothing :(
Hi thanks for this tutorial. I have aa ESI gigaport usb audio interface with 8 outputs. The interface shows up in properties with a 5.1 surround option. Using 6 of the outputs. Even 7.1 is availabel as an option. When testing the speakers are recognized and all seems well. But using disneyplus or hbo max in browsers like edge , firefox and chrome I do not get 5.1 sound. Also the disneyplus app does not give me 5.1. Could the fx configurator be a solution and give 5.1 audio when streaming movies in these browsers?
This is because those streaming platforms don't support 5.1 on windows only streaming platform that does is netflix in chrome with the 5.1 add-on from the store all other streaming platforms don't support sourndsound on windows
Thanks for clarifying. Such a shame the platforms do not support surround on windows. They invest a lot of money to produce their movies in surround and in the end we can not watch them with our expensive surround systems at home. 😔
@@enaj honestly just by a fire stick 4k max and you can use dobly atmos Dolby true hd dts hd and dts x needs to be the gen 2 one tho or the nevida shiled TV pro all streaming platforms have full 5.1 support on android TV
Hi. I have problems with starting FX Configurator, it worked perfectly until today. I have samsung 5.1 soundbar connected via arc, and it just plays stereo. I followed all of your steps, and nothing happens. It's driving me crazy, I have been trying for hours to fix this, but fx just won't start. And yeah, its windows 11,
@@eldinhuskic6653 then unfortunately your only option is to switch to windows 10 unfortunately windows 11 once that happens you've got two options 1 go to windows 10 or do a system restore to a point before installed apo Unfortunately this is a issue course by windows 11 being a little bit of a mess
For some reason, after installing the APO driver as shown in the video (Windows defender deactivated) I try running FX Configurator but no dice. It's there so I'm missing something maybe?. I tried multiple times already and updated visual c++ and such... ):
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st That's right. I even ran a registry clean up with CCleaner. FX configurator icon shows up in my tray for a split second and then banishes.
@@DravenxEyeless yeah that's Purley a windows 11 bug your best bet is to do a system restore point to a few days or weeks before you installed the mod then you should be good
I followed the guide to the T and it went well with one issue. I see the dolby tab in the sound options, but when I go to advanced I only see Dolby Atmos as an option which my receiver doesnt support. If i click it takes me to the windows store to download dolby access app. This guide did allow me to enable "pass-through" on my tv which was previosuly grayed out but there is no dolby digital option in the advanced tab. Please help!
Following up on this. We were able to get it working. After numerous attempts to only have the Dolby Tab show up but no option for Dolby Digital in the "advanced tab", as a last desperation attempt, I selected the option "rebuild all audio end points" in the FX configurator app and then applied the patch again and Dolby Digital showed up in the advanced tab! Hope this helps others who ran into the same issue I did.
@@chchris25 it should work I can probably help you fix the problem DM me on discord and I'll help you fix the problem can you explain what part you're having issues with
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st hey i was wondering if i could have dolby and dts at the same time? like switching between them? my receiver supports this but i dont know if this software does. (I am using opticle and have a 5.1 setup)
@@AfkBxndit unfortunately you can only have one patched at a time as far as I know though if you're using a proper avr I'd recommend using pcm 5.1 or 7.1 instead
@@AfkBxndit pcm is just raw uncompressed sound Where as dts and Dolby are both compressed sound codecs pcm is fully none compressed sound meaning it sounds way better but I requires a good AV receiver to use it
Hi it was working in Windows 10 but now with Windows 11 with my usb when i choose Dobly Digital it says tha not supported format. I tried Windows 11 patch over Windows 10 and also fresh install from a usb key but same result. That is for the Startech USB external sound card. I've tried with HDMI but Doby Digital doesn't show in format. Do you have any clue why ? Thanks anyway hoping i'll find a way.
Is it mandatory to install Dolby Home Theater or Dolby Access for this to work? Problem is Micro soft store is broken and is unfixable unless maybe re-install of windows witch is not an option
I have my dolbi digital systam connected to my tv. I have 5.1 if i play content directli from the smart tv. But im only able to play stereo when my pc is connected to the tv.
Ok are you using arc ? Or optical ?did you patch the TVs hdmi or optical output from the pc did you use actual Dolby encoded files youtube does not support 5.1 on windows so if you test it with a test from there it won't work only streaming service on windows that supports 5.1 is netflix with the 5.1 1080p plug-in only on chrome
Ok so one thing I did different... Like some others said, once I restarted my PC the 5.1 driver ceased to function due to the windows defender (Windows 11) corrupting the driver install right. Now I don't trust CCleaner in the least bit nor do I trust really any PC optimization apps, so alternatively you can Exclude the entire puresoft folder from windows defender... If you already installed the APO Driver once it creates a folder in your C/users/yourpcname/appdata/roaming folder call "puresoftapps" you need view hidden folders enabled to see it but this is where the APO driver is installed open up Virus and Threat Protection, Manage Settings, Exclusions, and Exclude the entire puresoftapps folder so that the next time you go to install the APO driver Defender will ignore it... so after uninstalling APO Driver, I used Disc Cleanup to delete discarded files, I deleted the puresoftapps folder, then restarted my PC and proceeded to reinstall APO Driver... Now I have tested it all again and restarted the PC several times and APO Driver is still working. Hope that Helps.
IT'S WORKING! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! thank you so much bro. I couldn't connect my PC to read 4k content to my sound receiver directly because DENON only support 1080p. So I had to connect my PC to my TV using an hdmi cable then plug another hdmi (arc compatible) from the TV to my sound receiver. And 5.1 still works like a charm, which I feared wouldn't. Btw, my speakers have dolby atmos technology, do you have any idea if this setup can make atmos work as well for atmos content?
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Hello again! Yeah I just saw it in the windows store. I should use the dolby atmos app from windows store and set it up in my TV advanced properties instead of the dolby home theater app right? So basically I just stop using the dolby home theater app forever? But what when I won't play atmos content, will the Dolby Atmos app from the window store will works as good as the dolby home theater for 5.1 and stereo content? Because I saw that you can't configure anything inside the dolby atmos app. You just turn atmos on and you can enable/disable surround for stereo stuff. Feel pretty underwhelming in comparison to dolby home theater. Maybe this is normal, sorry I'm pretty new into this!
As I feared, everything is a mess. Atmos was working fine but had really high audio lag when playing non-atmos stuff (I would say around 200/300ms) so it make movies hard to watch and games straight up unplayable. I've done some research and it seems like it's a really common issue and the best way to fix it is to use 2 hdmi outputs from the graphic card but my setup doesn't allow me to do that yet. It would be fine if I could switch to classic 5.1 to play non-atmos stuff but for some reason 5.1 didn't work with dolby access at all while everything was working fine before at the time I did everything you mentioned in your video. So in the end I had to give it up, and now dolby digital is not working anymore lol. I only get stereo audio no matters what I try... I am sad right now because the only solution I found to made 5.1 works in the first place was yours. Now no matter what I do, even if I uninstall everything and use ccleaner to install again, it simply doesn't work. Audio really is a pain in the ass sometimes. (always?)
Hey bud, was just wondering what content on pc you were trying to watch to get 5.1. I also have a denon AVR connected to my pc (pc>receiver>tv) and was trying to get 5.1 on youtube/hbo/ect via Chrome. (games work fine and get proper surround sound) BUT you do know youtube/hbo does not support 5.1 via pc right?(i know, its dumb) I had an older yamaha 5.1 AVR and i thought i was getting 5.1 on youtube/streamig services via chrome (any web browser) but in actuality the old AVR was using whats called multi channel stereo, which is just your 5.1 playing the exact same audio to the rear speakers as the front. Its not real 5.1. My new denon i got id HIGHLY recommend! The 570BT! 4K 120hz(if ur tv/monitor supports it)/HDR Passthrough!
Was I so annoying, that you decided to make an updated video so you don't have to explain it over and over again by yourself? 🤣 Tanks for the Update. I will come back to it when Windows decides to kill my 5.1 again...
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Any chance we can find a way for this to work on 24H2? This method has worked beautifully until now. I have a Sony HT-Z9F 5.1ch Soundbar if that helps connected by Optical. I'm trying to avoid HDMI as it creates a ghost second screen that kills HDR working in Windows 11.
EDIT. It works! Just doesn't look like it works in windows!!!! Thanks man! orig post: I give up... Just cannot get this nuc11atkc4 to see more than 2 channels of audio when connected to my tcl s451 tv, with arc passthrough to my vizio v51 soundbar. I had hoped this would work, but alas it does not.
Question you do have dobly selected under the advance tap yes ? Because with it selected it will only show up as two channels until you play a dobly codec file like the test in the description the windows test sound is not encoded in dobly so it will only show up in stereo
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Holy Sheetrock! It works! Well the first AAC format test anyways! The others do not come through as surround. Thank you Thank You Thank You!
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st it's weird I have a 7.1 system. When I run the video of the guy talking, my 5.1 works. Including sub... When I load up a game like dead space remastered... I get all 7 speakers but not sub.... So odd. 🤔
@@RiskyZeva hmm 🤔 it is strange tho I'm not surprised I've known a few people with 7.1 systems have the same if you have a av receiver if recommend using pcm 7.1 instead of Dolby it's high quality audio as it's uncompressed and will not have this problem
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I figured it out... After like 5hrs of fiddling around... I changed these two things at the same time. So I'm not sure which one was the fix.. 1- my AVR had all my speakers set to "large" speakers. I switched them to "small" speakers to allow more lows to go to the sub. 2- when configuring the speakers in the "configure" window I unchecked the full range speaker option... Now everything works.
I must've messed up. My soundcard disappeared after trying this and now I can't get device manager or anything else to see my onboard realtek sound device
Ah sounds like you're having a corrupted driver type apo in search and your see maintenance run it and then uninstall should fix your problem if not go to the realtek website and download the latest driver package and install it should fix your problems
Man this is such a great tutorial! Thanks for showing. However, i noticed my audio is extremely quiet with those drivers installed. Using the equalizer to increase loudness is not helpful either.
Sounds like you may need to change a setting on your av receiver genuinely speak this shouldn't effect your volume at all as it's just sending the dobly codec to your avrs dac so there maybe a setting your need to adjust on your box
I get Dolby digital in the games and surround sound works for most of them except some. There are games such as cyberpunk 2077 and hogwarts legacy that seem to upsample surround sound only and not true surround sound. This is because the audio dialog from characters does not rotate to rear speakers if I rotate the camera. They only transfer from right, center and left speaker. Only background music is heard from the rear speakers. Do you know how to fix such issues?
Hey unfortunately for Hogwarts legacy that game only has 5.1/7.1 Dolby Atmos support and that's only on console not PC cyberpunk 2077 has 5.1/.71 but only in dobly Atmos if your receiver supports Atmos id recommend using it for cyberpunk as for Hogwarts legacy unfortunately only way to get 5.1 would be mod the game to enable it or to get a console that or go slap a dev until they add it hope this helps
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Thanks man for the reply! Unfortunately I have an old A/V receiver. The best I can do is DD EX 6.1 surround. It just sucks not all PC games have standard support for dolby digital. It maybe related to the publisher as well. Ubisoft games I've tried all have working dolby digital surround but for like WB games (hogwarts legacy and gotham knights) I get the issue
@@carranz35 I get yah I actually upgraded my receiver and no longer use dobly digital I use pcm 7.1 witch is just way better for sound quality unfortunately PC surround sound support for games and movies is pretty poor
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Long story - I ended up just setting up the standard windows 5.1 support (Sound > Playback > Receiver > Configure, with HDMI to Onkyo 7100 receiver). This means I don't really get surround in-browser on youtube videos labeled as surround (and no Dolby Digital option under Properties > Advanced, only DTS:X / Dolby Atmos for some dumb reason) - but at least it works with Plex. And at least I don't have to reinstall the Apo driver with this convoluted weird CCleaner process every time the nvidia audio driver gets corrupted/bugged out/erased by the system (which is often).
hi, i manage to output netflix and dts movies by this method, but in game, it doesn't detect multi channel such as Uncharted pc. only stereo out. i confuse
it's a problem of the game, you have to change it to 3d sound or headphones and it will work. I played through Uncharted and it seems it was an issue with 5.1 systems in general.
Uncharted game is bugged I try other game like RDR2 or FF7R their 5.1 work like charm Only uncharted bugged like that, need 3d spatial selected and problem is gone The down side is, their voice volume are so low,but music and effects are damn loud
Thank you very much, the most understandable video about this subject for windows 11. Is dolby digital going to behave like dolby digital live? I'm asking this because apo doesn't include dolby digital live
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Hi Bud, i found it but its a lenovo version via google and getting Dolby audio driver versions mismatches where the one i have on installed is newer. Anyway, i want to say thanks for the great video as it did get dolby working on this old 2013 onkyo ht-s5300 system i bought used last week. Cheers and all the best , bro!
Got a problem today, everything was working yesterday flawlessly, but today I turned on the PC again and I'm stuck with Stereo sound again :( Still have the Dolby Home Theater V4 app, but in my sound properties I don't have the "Dolby" tab anymore. Any ideas?
And now it says on the sound properties, advanced options tab, that the Dolby format is not compatible with my device, when it was functional yesterday :(((
Ok firstly more then likely two different things have happened one your anti virus deleted it or two your video card has had a driver update this is simple to fix first run apo and use its repair function then repatch the sound device with fx config should fix it
Well, got to fix it after doing every step in the video 4 times lol But once again, the next day everything set back to the default settings. I don't think it's the antivirus because it never notified me anything either on the first or the second time (got Kaspersky), so basically I now know how to make it work but I have to do it every time I turn on the PC. Any ideas on how to make it permanent? (Also no, haven't updated the GPU)
Thank you very much for the guide, everything worked, but for myself I chose dts connect, please tell me, is there a similar program for dts with an equalizer like for dolby digital?
every time I try to follow the steps in the video I find myself without the possibility of selecting Dolby Digital in the advanced tab (even if the Dolby tab appears). I tried uninstalling, cleaning with CCleaner and reinstalling but nothing changes. any suggestions?
First let's start with what device are you trying to patch is it optical is it arc over HDMI ? Do you know if that format is actually supported by your device are you using. Any slipters Between the HDMI if your using HDMI is this going to a speaker set or to a av receiver? There's a lot to need to know give me a info dump then I can try and help
Thank you. This was very informative. I have a Sony TV Using ARC.PC has HDMI out from my NVidia 2070 to my TV, then from TV down to my Onkyo NR636 receiver. I am able to select DOLBY DIGITAL from the advanced tab and test it, but I only get 2 channels. .When I go to configure and select 5.1 on the speaker setup page, I get an error when I try to test "Failed tp play test tone". If I hit NEXT through the wizard, the last page errors out with "Format not supported by the device"? Do you know why this would be? My receiver is Dolby capable. I believe my card is as well. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
@@kandrkandr I thought I had replied to this you do not use speaker setup at all leave that alone that's only for analog the only thing that handles the 5.1 is the dobly driver Dolby when it is selected its only stereo as Dolby is a digital codec that windows test sound does not support so it only plays back in stereo as long as Dolby is enabled any Dolby content will work out of the box 90% of the time
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Thank you for the quick reply. Yeah, everything sounds great now. I did find one issue, I opened up Overwatch this morning, and there is about a half a second delay on sound. Did you experience anything like this? I will try another game to see if it is just Overwatch with the issue.
@@kandrkandr depends is it like a delay between the image and sound or does the sound cut in and out,? Is it's a Delay between you shooting and your Audio playing out of sync that's a setting you must setup in your receiver normally it's called lip sync adjust it well firing may also be called sync timer this is a setting that adjusts the delay between sound used for TVs and audio sync up same will go for games especially if you're playing at high frame rates it's used to sync sound to the picture movement mainly lips so the voice plays at the same time the image moves
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st It had something to do with my system being old. My processor was a 4th gen 4820k. Upgrading got rid of the issue. Thanks for the help, and the info.
Says it is installed but not showing up anywhere, turned off anti virus and did exactly what you did but not showing anywhere in device manager or the speaker / sound manager in windows 11, everything is the same as when I started. What am I doing wrong ? please My setup is pc goes into my TSR 5830 AVR Receiver via HDMI , that outputs out to my TU700 Samsung TV via HDMI e-arc and for the life of me I cannot get Dolby anything to my receiver, it is all PCM. Oh and my audio from my PC comes from my AMD GPU rx 6500 xt PC has a Ryzen 5 5500 CPU. It has been driving me crazy because I know I should be getting much better sound then what I am getting. Oh but the only time that I get the proper sound to my AVR is when I go into Dolby Access and play one of those test videos then it shows DD+/Atmos but that is the only time I can get it.
Sounds like the driver has installed but it's failed to patch to the device I can try to help you fix it please add me on discord love the Rain On hot summer days#6520
Thanks man,it works great on my pc with old creative inspirion 5.1 digital surround system. Somehow today I have messes something with the dolby theater and tryed reinstalling drivers and software,but I can't acces your mega nz link,so if you could reupload files or link,or somehow send me the software only it would be great. Thanks for the good work and your effort
I still don't understand why any of this is necessary. Is it just not possible to transmit more than 2 audio channels without some Dolby product, or am I missing something?
That genuinely depends on the audio system windows had terrible surround sound support by default unless you have a av receiver that supports 5.1 or 7.1 pcm then your be stuck with only stereo with out using a dobly or dts codec decoder
Personally if you're using stereo earbuds or headphones it's generally not worth using fake surround sound with them Unless there of high quality with a wide sound stage also most dolby codecs don't work over Bluetooth
I managed to go through the whole process, but whenever I set it to Dolby it give a loud static churp before playing the audio. Wondering if anyone else is also having this issue?
@@SirQuacksalotthe1stso I have an hdmi running to a splitter that then runs to my projector and a 5.1 Samsung sound bar. The splitter is designed to let you choose 7.1, 5.1 2.1 or mono. And I can hear the surround sound working well. But I can’t get Dolby to work without that dreaded static chrup sound.
@@vonlogan1 I'd guess that it's possibly something to do with your splitter but as your using one I'd recommend using PCM instead mate PCM 5.1 is pure uncompressed surround . so it will sound far better than using Dolby as it's not compromised by compression watch my lasted video on it
For me Dolby showed up in properties and i heared i huge quality improvement but it is still in 2 channels and the front one too. I have the logitech Z 5500 speakers using optical cable to my motherboard Asrock B450M Steel Legend. Do you know how i can fix this?
it says dolby digital is not supported by this device, sigh. and it is connected by an optical cable from my Sound Blaster to my Bose Ultra Sound Bar. How is this so difficult?
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I got around installing it, it gives an error: The current Dolby audio drive version is 7.2.8000.13 and the software application expects driver version 7.2.7000.4 Please install a valid drive and software application combination.
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st yup, I get 5.1 signal all around my home theater system and playing Alan Wake 2 with surround effect on my OLED tv :)) - but I would like to have more bass you know?
@@nkata0 not gonna never had that problem with anyone else I can only recommend that you try to adjust your bass output from your av receiver or TV failing that try reinstalling the Dolby driver and repatching
Great video made my surround work with LG c9, But whats the benefit of dolbyhometheater program ? I could not see if in the ApoDriver Rar where do i download it? Thanks!
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st When clicking dolby digital and trying to test my surround speakers work 100% at your surround AAA mp4 test only, Then i go to youtube search for surround test and try play, Does not work the surround speakers play in Front / Left front speakers, Any idea why it stops working? also are windows suppose to set my lg c9 tv to Stereo and not 5.1 in the speakers setup? If i change it back to 5.1 windows auto set the quality to CD quality and not dolby digital anymore. Thanks for any help. :)
@@vonown3d that's because all of that's bullshit UA-cam does not support 5.1 or 7.1 play back all those videos are a waste of time the only version of UA-cam what had 5.1 support was on a old smart TV and that version has not been touched in years your only get stereo sound untill you do one of two things play a game or movie with 5.1 Dolby surround support note only streaming platform that works on windows Is netflix with the 1080p 5.1 chrome store plugin almost all games should work out of the box or have sound options in the menu for it I'll be trying to fix the home theater file soon as for the other thing it must have the dobly option enabled as show in the video it only shows stereo when selected as windows test sound does not support dobly codec
so i have Z906 speakers. On PC. will this work for them? Also i am trying to find the Dolby APO drivers but im not having much luck. Could a link be shared? The one in the description says the anti virus catches it. Kinda scary so was trying to just find the original link my self. Thanks for all info
@@Kordinut no problem mate it's completely safe but it's up to you at the end of the day to choose weather you feel that you want to risk it tho if you read all the comments I think your find most people are pleased with the out come haha
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Well... i did it. LOL and.. IT WORKS GREAT! i had no idea what i was missing out on. I will save this vid and proclaim your name throughout the lands!! ( also, liked and subscribed )
bro i have B660-G wifi ausus motherboard and old Creative 5.1 i did connect it to the rear panel . on windows test and realteck audio concle work perfect , but when i play music there is no sound on the rear speakers .... dose what i see here fix the problem ? thanks alot ( i connected it as colors showen ) green front L R , black for rear , and pink for center sub . please help me , Thanks alot mate
Music files are only 2.1 your need to upmix with the dobly program if you have creative sound card it should have dobly already and have a software sweet that your get from the crreative website what should have a upmixing profile
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st i dont have sound card , i use the build-in rear panel from my motherboard Asus rog strixs b660-g gaming wifi. excuse my bad english but i try tell u what my problem is. My rear speakers play now only rear effects otherwise are silence . i want them to play normal sounds (as front speakers) but ofc keeping their job as play rear effects . Thanks alot bro and sorry for wasting ur time on my problem :)
@@williamwen3477 laptop or desktop? I know laptops dislike it and if not that's very strange do you have a I GPU like with a Intel CPU ? If so you may wanna test it through that
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st desktop Plugged in my samsung tv 40HU7000 to 3060ti via hdmi, and try your trick to patch 5.1 but is show "format not supported by device" when i tried to apply dolby digital
@@williamwen3477 seems strange possibly your GPU just doesn't support Dolby but I doubt it do you have discord ? If so add me on there and we can see if we can fix it
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I have a somewhat similar issue I cant find the solution for, for the life of me. I have an A/V receiver with 7.1 channel AUX input through 8 female RCA jacks it can directly put through to speakers. I have a motherboard (ASUS TUF Z690 Gaming Wifi D4)with built in 7.1 support, 5 3.5mm AUX female ports (Line In/side speakers :blue, Line Out/Front :green, C/Sub :orange, Rear :black, Mic In :pink, ), as well as Toslink optical out. I have 4 male 3.5mm AUX to dual RCA adapters connecting these directly. HOWEVER! When I connect to the female Front Speaker and Line In, the PC asks what jack I just plugged in, lets me select (Side Speakers out or Line In?). The PROBLEM comes in when I plug in the other 2 jacks into the SPECIFICALLY LABELED Rear and C/Sub. It doesn't ask me what to do with either of those 2 jacks like it did the others, it just says, "you have plugged a device into the audio jack". the A/V receiver is successfully getting and playing Center out, Sub out, and Side Speaker out. I finally set up a Microsoft account just to get the Dolby trial and it did nothing. I've tried everything. at best I can only get simulated 5.1 from the optical. I'm SO lost. Could you please help me? I'm practically ready to hire a geeksquad guy... if I could afford it X.X
Watched like 8 of these 5.1 "fix," videos for my LG C1 OLED that my PC outputs to in ARC then back from my TV to 5.1 receiver. Not only was this the first solution to work it was by far the simplest solution.
Thanks a ton, spent years with EDID overrides, Virtual stuff and audio splitters. Can confirm it works for win 11
I have been frustrated with how to connect my PC to my AV Receiver to play my multi-channel audio files. It has been a long time without success. I have an ONKYO HTR393 AV receiver that has a special HDMI input port for PC, when I tried to plug in the cables, it was detected on the PC that it supports 5.1 on the sound card, when I tested it I found out it was only stereo.
Now, after following the steps in your video, WOW! AMAZING, it works, I get 5.1 audio. You are great, may you have lots of fortune, thank you very much my friend 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you!! I tried everything, but this actually worked :D
For everyone wondering, this was my problem: Recently, I switched from PS5 to PC (self-built / z790 Gaming X AX; i5 13600k; RTX 4070ti; Windows 11). And I've been using the Astro A50 (Gen 4) as my PlayStation(s) headset for years. So obviously, because I was happy with the sound, I wanted to keep using it with the new PC setup (If the Astro a50 is good for the price or the fact that you could get better audio quality for less money, for example with Beyerdynamic headsets, is a different story).
Astros console setup: connect the base station with your console by using the optical cable (for consoles without an optical out, you have to use an HDMI/optical splitter) and plug the microUSB in for voice chat and power supply. You could also plug the micro-usb into a pc to use it on discord or whatever. Also set the console audio format to bitstream (Dolby) and the input format to Dolby Digital 5.1ch. And activate the Dolby feature on the headset -> FOR ME, fantastic GAMING sound. Astros PC Setup: ONLY use the microUSB cable to connect the base station to your PC. So the optical cable is no longer required. Enable Dolby access and put the headset in passthrough mode (deactivate the built-in Dolby feature). -> apparently works for most people......they "love" the sound. For me, this sounds sh*t!
So I wanted to get the "old" console sound on my PC by using the optical cable. My motherboard has an optical out, so why not use it as the default audio out..... and set the microUSB sound as the default communication device? Then I realized that you couldn't change the audio format to Dolby Digital..... Obviously, the headset with the enabled Dolby feature sounds sh*t, when you feed it with a "2 channel 16 bit XYZ Hz" signal. -> YOU NEED the Dolby Digital format.
And that's the point where this tutorial comes in *_*
So after this patch, I could finally set my format for the SPDIF to Dolby Digital, and my headset worked exactly like it did on console!
If anyone else is having similar issues, I hope this helps.
And once again, thank you!
Your welcome Glad it helped like and subscribe XD trying to get too 1000 subs
This is the comment im looking for, I have come from a console to PC and my Astro headset sounds trash!
What options did you use? I followed this guide and I get the not supported error.
OH MY GOD!!! Thank you a thousand times! The amount of time I've wasted with obscure windows drivers and reinstalling all kind of crap had frustrated me beyond the point of giving up. I've literally revisited this over 8 times in 2 years without any success, every time wasting between 1-3 hours, until today! I cannot express how thankful I am for this!!
Good to know APO 2.10.6 was not available for me (seems to have been removed), so I used 2.10.5 instead and it worked like a charm.
O miracle! long-term dances with a tambourine!!!
Replacement sound blasters, newest receivers...
looking for rear channels
My respect and many thanks.
I firmly shake your hand!
Oh wow this actually worked! I previously tried another instruction I found where you're meant to apply a patch to Realtek drivers, but that did nothing for me. This did! I have Windows 10 and onboard audio on an old Intel mini-ITX motherboard.
I only have a 3.1 setup, which basically sounded fine through my old amp's Dolby Pro Logic II decoder, which can simulate multichannel from a stereo signal. But it was still annoying that I had to go that way when all the hardware involved is capable of digital multi channel playback. Now my old amp correctly recognizes that it's receiving digital multichannel (display changes from DPLII to Digital).
Thanks a whole, whole lot for taking the time to make this video!
I've heard so many times it's to much of a hassle to get DD running as standard on PC, so I never bothered to really look into it.
I wish I had.
Your guide worked flawlessly, and many many thanks for sharing it
Good to hear it worked honestly the pure lack of information is why I made this video had to help people out
I am watching this 2 years later and it absolutely still does the trick! It really seems insane to me there isn't a button somewhere for "Hey idiot, this thing can accept 5.1. Just trust me!"
WOWWWWWWWWWW I LOVE YOU MAN ! I bought a usb sound card with SPDIF output and i only getting PCM 2 CH emulation for all my speakers. Now i installed this apo driver and the tab now allows me to select dolby digital and apply ! To make your video more excellent, my tip for everyone to block Windows defender mess around with our driver you can do this: Before install Apo driver, disable all windows defender, install Apo driver and go to windows defend and add a exclusion file like this path C:\Users\Eduardo Medeiros\AppData\Roaming\PureSoftApps\APO Driver 2.10.6\install\B0FA0A2
ealtek.hd.sound.driver-patch.exe replace Eduardo Medeiros with your users name and u can turn on windows defender and won't mess with ur apo driver ! Thank you my man. One question can i install dolby and DTS both ? You rock !
Funciona se conseguir instalar mais só e possível usar um a cada vez tem que trocar de acordo com o suporte que o dispositivo de destino for compativel
YESSSSS!! oh my goodness! I have struggled with the particular issue of surrounds playing through the front speakers for almost a year now, this fixed it, I can't say thank you enough! While the 5.1 tests on UA-cam don't ever work for me, my movies do now. Thank you thank you thank you!!
@@Limitless1201 UA-cam on windows doesn't support 5.1
@@Limitless1201 and your welcome haha glad it helped please like and subscribe also we support donations via PayPal now have fun with surround sound mate
I wish I found your video 2 days ago. you helped me fix my issue in under 5 mins. thanks
Well I'm happy it helped
Hi. I got everything except the dolby home theater installer. where do i find it?
WORKS for me, amazing, now i can use my 5.1 sound on my PC, thx a lot!
Good to hear it worked
Just noticed a 1s delay when starting the audio, is that normal? @@SirQuacksalotthe1st
Changed to chanel 2, 24 bit, 960000hz and the delay was removed.
@@1DeleterX1 yeah that's pretty normal that's just it switching codecs some av receiver do it faster than others
A miracle! Thank you, this is the only thing that worked after i dont know how many forum threads 😅
This works FLAWLESSLY. Windows 11 Pro, OS Build 22621.1413, with Realtek USB 2.0 Audio, ALC4060 CODEC, and an add in S/PDIF card attached to the S/PDIF header on my Asus ROG Strix B650-A motherboard. I now get 5.1 surround VIA Toslink through my Yamaha RX-V485 5.1 receiver. THANK YOU!!!
Good to hear it's all working for you
Damn... It worked for me as well! Win11, Gigabyte Aorus X570 Ultra, Optical Out to Logitech Z906, Active 5.1 speaker set.! Thank you!!!
You have been super helpful. Great video ! UA-cam algorithm is messed up, you should few hundred thousand subscribers if not million. Thank you
You saved me 25 dollars on a thingy that would do this, with extra steps and cables lol
Thank you so much!
omg finally it works, jeah, thanks man, this was my really last solution and it sounds and works great!
@@notgoodbutlong good to hear
Took me years to get this working and finally this video has cracked it! - thanks so much!
i used this exact video and this one works no popping audio on arc ...some boy thanks mate 😊
My problem is with Atmos. In windows if Atmos is selected then I get two channel audio when playing UA-cam even with Dolby surround selected at the receiver. I have a new Atmos receiver connected through a Nvidia 3080 HDMI. Atmos upmixer does nothing. All content encoded with Atmos, or DD works flawless. If I select Sonic for Headphones, in audio properties then UA-cam will play through the surround speakers but then Atmos encoded content will only play in Dolby Digital. So, I have to switch back and forth depending on the content I'm watching. So, the problem is Atmos for windows is telling my AVR to receive 8 channels and UA-cam is only sending two channels resulting in only two channels playing no matter what is selected at the receiver. So, I need to somehow force UA-cam/Microsoft Edge to output through all available channels no matter what the content is encoded as.
I know there has got to be a way because when I use the Tidal app it will play music through all channels and when I play music with the Media Monkey app it plays through all channels. Even with Atmos enabled.
(SIGH)! Thanks for reading all that.
Unfortunately yes dobly won't work with out upnixing what you could try is apo eq using it as a simple audio filter and copying the front stereo channels to the rear and center and sup this video is purely for fixing dobly digital not Atmos how ever for what you want that should do it equalizerapo.com/download.html
set it up as this cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/589982856516861970/1063207485932044458/f.PNG
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I use Equalizer Apo and you know, I never thought about trying that. I'm not well educated in how to use Apo. I use REW to generate my eq setting and export it to Apo. Thats about as much as I have learned but I know it will do so much more. Thanks for the tip. I really appreciate it.
@@ditto_75 no worrys man like and sub
Here is my work around just in case this may be helpful to anyone else. Also, for others that are having trouble with audio disappearing every time you close then open UA-cam this will fix that also.
First delete Nvidia audio drivers and let Windows install generic HD audio drivers. You will notice in your device audio properties under (supported formats) Atmos is now listed. It was not before.
Next, go to (advanced) and select your desired sample rate then (spatial sound) and select Windows sonic for headphones. Thats is all.
When playing UA-cam Dolby surround will play through all speakers and when playing Netflix or Hulu or Disney+ Atmos will play correctly. No need to switch audio properties in Windows anymore.
So, the culprit is NVidia's drivers. I can't blame them entirely though. I do believe that Dolby has a big part to play in all the problems people are having with Atmos by trying to keep they're license proprietary. Good luck!
THank you very much, i was looking for this for a long time. It works perfectly !
Hi there. I have RTX 4090 HDMI (win10 pro) => LG OLED C3 => Soundbar Samsung Q930C (via eARC). When I try to use Atmos for home theater via the DOLBY ACCESS APP, my TV detects the sound and shows "Dolby Atmos" for few seconds, but all I get is a sort of stereo upmix from my soundbar. I can't seem to have it work with each indivisual speaker. Whatever source I play it stays like this in Stereo. Example, when I click on say the rear left speaker in windows setting with Dolby Atmos on, I get sound from all left speakers at the same time. However when I'm NOT using ATMOS but 7.1 channel configuration in windows settings, it works okay and each speaker has its own sound, and surround sound video play correctly. I don't really understand why that is. I've tried to tweak settings between DOLBY ACCESS APP and Windows sound settings with no luck. Any clue on how to fix this? Thanks in advance for your help.
There's alot to talk about there I can explain and half try and fix it but it would be easier to do so in my discord server as talking is easier then texting if you can join my discord I'd be happy to try and help you out
Well I see your in voice chat would be good if you unmuted so we could talk XD
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I don't have microphone, I'd rather go with chat if possible ?
worked on my Acer Nitro 5. Thank you very Much!!! Made my day!!!
Your welcome glade it helped
@@SirQuacksalotthe1stIt suddenly stopped working now. Tried uninstalling, cleaning registry and installing again. but advanced is not showing 'dolby' option 😞
@@porchezhiyanelanthirayan1816 means the anti virus has problems deleted it your need to go in and check your quarantined history
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st thank you very much for the quick reply. Restoring the threat and restarting the PC made it work again. Thanks a lot!
@@porchezhiyanelanthirayan1816 good to hear happy to help enjoy
thank you so much! Your solution still works very well. It made my day! Greetings from Germany!
Glad to hear it helped enjoy and have a great day
Also thank you very much for your donation very much appreciated 💖
Tried both of your tutorials and unortunately I still only get the front and center, the dolby shows up as you showed and in the tv sound settings but its still only giving out the front and center and making the sides and rears act on fronts? Do you have any other suggestion, Im on windows 11
@@DaMainMouse yeah don't use windows 11 I can possibly help you fix your issues
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st not quite what I was hoping for but thankyou :)
@@DaMainMouse unfortunately windows 11 has a load of issues with surround sound that are not fixable however I may be able to help people out sometime on discord on fixing your sound issue
I did not follow the removal of the apo + reinstall and the ccleaner part. Yet I still got the Dolby digital tab in advanced (But the test only does the 2 front speakers) and the dolby tab. So I guess it worked since sound can technically play from it?
Unfortunately no matter what I do running a 4.1 setup. I cannot get the 2 front speakers to stop making playing the surround sound of the 2 back speakers, and the 2 back speakers are silent no matter what I do, except when its on a windows default 24bit 48khz setting and then the receiver has one of the shitty "Sound official" buttons like THX, Dolby, Prologic etc filter types. And even then the back speakers are quiet af even though they work.
Just wish I knew it was a PC or receiver problem. Some people say its a problem of RCAs and SPDIFs being only fit for stereo audio on PC for some BS reasons, and you have to have a newer receiver with HDMI support to link to your gpu instead of your motherboard to actually get surround sound on PC. If thats the case I screwed myself on buying this expensive rca/spdif only receiver.
Sounds like a reviver problem spdif is perfectly fine for 5.1 as long as it's not hd if you want to see if we can fix your problems add me on. Discord and will see what we can do
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I got bought a new receiver and have the same problem lol. There must be something seriously wrong with dolby digital, and/or realtek sound drivers or something
@@BioChemistryWizard message me on discord and I'll help you fix the problem
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Thanks for the offer but I figured out that the problem was just that Dolby access is the app you need installed and setup to get proper working surround sound on PC. So dolby digital sound options are irrelevant until thats fixed. Might you have a neat guide on getting dolby atmos to work on a receiver or PC audio drivers that may not support it?
@@BioChemistryWizard first good to hear you got it working second not really true as the dobly driver mod offers true and perfectly fine working surround sound it's just a older standard as for dobly Atmos kinda pointless because most movies and games are not in Atmos format and if my brain. Remember correctly doesn't do backwards compatibility with dobly digital or dobly true hd unless they updated it as such I see no point in making a video on a standard that's useless for most people if it has been updated to work with older standers though I'll happily make a guide as it will be much more consumer friendly best of luck with it though ✋🙏
Thank you for advice!
Btw Which version of APO driver works good with Home Theatre V4 app?
Seem's like the app is awaiting the previous version of dolby driver
I had a question, what if you install Dolby Digital Plus Home Theater (HDMI/SPDIF) instead of home theater v4? Will it still out put 5.1 via SPDIF/TOSLINK? From what i've known SPDIF/TOSLINK cant do Dolby Digital Plus.
@@Amitgatte yes and no optical is blocked from supporting dobly digital plus but as we're patching it manually it's possibly may work why not do it and see what happens mate ? for more information on optical and dobly plus
Give this a read www.techdim.com/does-optical-cable-support-dolby-digital-plus/
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Alright, will redo everything again as i was using Home Theater v4 and it was working flawlessly. Hoping for dolby digital plus to work, i am sure many people may have tried. Will let you know if it works.
@@Amitgatte sounds like a plan let me know how it goes good luck
I've been at this all day and the Dolby Digital option just never appears as an option in the dropdown list. I've done the CCleaner and all that but it is never available. I do get the Dolby tab but have no way to set it.
You using optical or arc?
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I'm having the same issue. My system is a LG SP7R soundbar with woofer and rear speakers and can do DTS and Dolby Digital Plus. I'm connected via optical from my MSI MPG B550 Gaming Edge Wifi and also tried via HDMI from my Nvidia card to the TV then optical out from the TV (which I confirmed can output DTS and Dolby and works fine on my Xbox and PS5).
I also tried 2.10.6 and 2.10.5 for APO as well. I get the Dolby tab in properties but no Dolby under Advanced.
@@ultraddtd I'll be free later today to help on call add me on discord
Man, it worked like a champ. Im super impressed, because i tried a lot of tutorials on youtube, and You are the first one to show real deal. THANK YOU.
No problem glad it helped like and subscribe if yah can trying to hit 1000 subs a lofty dream I know lol
FX Configurator is not opening even as Administrator annd I didn't find from where to install "Dolby Home Theather", but he said it is for older receivers. My Receiver has all including Dolby Tue HD, but does not have Atmos, as it is a few years older. I manage to enable k-lite codecs in Windows Media Player to select all checkmarks for DTS, Dobly D+ etc, and if the movie I downloaded ahs the codec, my Receiver automatically displays DTS Master, True HD, Dolby D+, but I want to be able to play HBOMax in a browser and have 5.1 on all movies it shows it available. Newer Movies come with Atmos, so I don't expect it to work, but Pro Logic II works for a decent sound for HBOMax at the moment. I wish I could make it encode DD_/DTS. Any help why FX Configurator does not start on my windows 11? I cannot map the rest of the steps and got nowhere selecting the codecs as shown:(
Please contact me on discord I'll be able to fix this in a quick matter of time
did you fix this? it doesnt open for me either
i have the msi z87 g45 gaming motherboard with logitech z506 speakers should i select the speakers to patch or realtech software? the speakers are connected with 3 AUX cables
@@Dennis737H if you've got them connected via 3 aux use the analogue Dolby option
@SirQuacksalotthe1st yeah but before that ypu have to pick either the speakers or the realtech software like u said in the video
and in advanced should dolby show up there if i dont have an dolby reciever?
@@Dennis737H your not using a Dolby enabled device so the steps are different select the speaker device your using for you speaker setup then when it comes to selecting Dolby v4 look for the one that says analog instead though if your genuinely wanting to use Dolby I'd recommend getting a USB dac with analog 3.5 ,5.1 out and I'm not using a analog setup so I don't personally know if it will show up or not unfortunately most people today have all switched to digital I've not used a analog setup since the early 2010s
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st allright thx man i will figure it out but u helped me alot
Thank you sir! It really helped! My setup is from my laptop (windows 11 with nvidia driver) to TV via HDMI. The TV is via optical so I can get surround sound through my speakers.
is it possible to use the same way to activate DTS passthrough ？
Couldn't make it work on Windows 11 Pro, sending audio through an LG C1 and connected to the TV's SPDIF.
I see the Dolby tab, but it doesn't show "Dolby Digital" on Default Format, at the Advanced tab. The only thing that is Dolby related there is the "Dolby Atmos for Home Theater", which was there since before this
I've tried uninstalling, running CCleaner and rebooting, to no avail. Dolby tab comes up, but I can't select Dolby Digital on the Default Format drop down, neither click the ON button on the Dolby tab (it crashes the audio window)
Am I doing something wrong?
Sorry been quite busy will help you out when I'm free next
Ok I'm free today if you still need help
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Thanks! I ended managing to make it display Dolby Digital. I was trying to do it while the device was set to Dolby Atmos, so although the tab was there, I couldn't select Dolby Digital.
Sadly, when it's correctly set just like your video, it still sounds bad (5.1 videos works, but stereo videos - basically every video that there is on UA-cam - only uses the center channel), just like it did with Dolby Atmos setting
@@GabrielMoraes ah yes we can fix this there should be a setting on your speaker box to set the channel mixing
@@GabrielMoraes if you got discord I can help you out
Great Tutorial Rains🤩🤩
Hi, thanks for the video! Im gonna give it a shot. Can you poi t me to the download for the dolby home thearter driver? The one listed in the bottom? Thank you quacks a lot!
Can anyone help me? I've gone through this whole process and am also using HDMI Arc with a receiver, but after going through the steps, the Dolby tab never appears on the sound properties of my tv and in the Advanced tab, Dolby Digital is also no where to be seen. I've done the whole CCleaner song and dance but ultimately it changed nothing :(
@@GCbfan then your antivirus has most likely blocked the driver
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I don't see how that's possible since I turn off the real time protection and have no other anti-virus software
@GCbfan that's normally what happens I'll be free later today add me on discord and I'll help you fix your issues
I need help please, im using hmdi to my audio extractor so I can use optical cable spdif to my soundar, but its not working
using driver 2.6.8 run smoothly thanks alot 🤩🤩
Hi thanks for this tutorial. I have aa ESI gigaport usb audio interface with 8 outputs. The interface shows up in properties with a 5.1 surround option. Using 6 of the outputs. Even 7.1 is availabel as an option. When testing the speakers are recognized and all seems well. But using disneyplus or hbo max in browsers like edge , firefox and chrome I do not get 5.1 sound. Also the disneyplus app does not give me 5.1. Could the fx configurator be a solution and give 5.1 audio when streaming movies in these browsers?
This is because those streaming platforms don't support 5.1 on windows only streaming platform that does is netflix in chrome with the 5.1 add-on from the store all other streaming platforms don't support sourndsound on windows
Thanks for clarifying. Such a shame the platforms do not support surround on windows. They invest a lot of money to produce their movies in surround and in the end we can not watch them with our expensive surround systems at home. 😔
@@enaj honestly just by a fire stick 4k max and you can use dobly atmos Dolby true hd dts hd and dts x needs to be the gen 2 one tho or the nevida shiled TV pro all streaming platforms have full 5.1 support on android TV
Thanks alot for these suggestions. Problem is I use a beamer connected to the pc with hdmi. 🤔
@@enaj hmm 🤔 could get a hdmi switcher
Hi. I have problems with starting FX Configurator, it worked perfectly until today. I have samsung 5.1 soundbar connected via arc, and it just plays stereo. I followed all of your steps, and nothing happens. It's driving me crazy, I have been trying for hours to fix this, but fx just won't start. And yeah, its windows 11,
@@eldinhuskic6653 then unfortunately your only option is to switch to windows 10 unfortunately windows 11 once that happens you've got two options 1 go to windows 10 or do a system restore to a point before installed apo
Unfortunately this is a issue course by windows 11 being a little bit of a mess
For some reason, after installing the APO driver as shown in the video (Windows defender deactivated) I try running FX Configurator but no dice. It's there so I'm missing something maybe?. I tried multiple times already and updated visual c++ and such... ):
Let's guess you running win 11 ?
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st That's right. I even ran a registry clean up with CCleaner. FX configurator icon shows up in my tray for a split second and then banishes.
@@DravenxEyeless yeah that's Purley a windows 11 bug your best bet is to do a system restore point to a few days or weeks before you installed the mod then you should be good
Can Someone help went through all the steps But cant find the installer for Dolby Home Theater v4.
@@germulhall8668 as I've stated in many responses I can no longer provide the home theatre files due to Dolbys legal team
I followed the guide to the T and it went well with one issue. I see the dolby tab in the sound options, but when I go to advanced I only see Dolby Atmos as an option which my receiver doesnt support. If i click it takes me to the windows store to download dolby access app. This guide did allow me to enable "pass-through" on my tv which was previosuly grayed out but there is no dolby digital option in the advanced tab. Please help!
Check your antivirus's quarantine more then likely it's removed the driver your need to restore it
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I disabled all options and even put that apo app as an exception.
@@EJ-en5xl join my discord server I'll be on in a hour or so I should be able to help you fix it
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st great done.
Following up on this. We were able to get it working. After numerous attempts to only have the Dolby Tab show up but no option for Dolby Digital in the "advanced tab", as a last desperation attempt, I selected the option "rebuild all audio end points" in the FX configurator app and then applied the patch again and Dolby Digital showed up in the advanced tab! Hope this helps others who ran into the same issue I did.
This didn’t work for me, and unfortunately CCleaner eliminated the registry cleaner option. Are there any other alternate cleaners?
@@chchris25 it should work I can probably help you fix the problem DM me on discord and I'll help you fix the problem can you explain what part you're having issues with
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st hey i was wondering if i could have dolby and dts at the same time? like switching between them? my receiver supports this but i dont know if this software does. (I am using opticle and have a 5.1 setup)
@@AfkBxndit unfortunately you can only have one patched at a time as far as I know though if you're using a proper avr I'd recommend using pcm 5.1 or 7.1 instead
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st sorry i’m new to the surround sound. what would pcm be?
@@AfkBxndit pcm is just raw uncompressed sound
Where as dts and Dolby are both compressed sound codecs pcm is fully none compressed sound meaning it sounds way better but I requires a good AV receiver to use it
Cant find Dolby Home Theater v4 everything worked great Thanks i did select it in FX configurator
@@germulhall8668 as stated in many of my responses to this same type of I can no longer provide Dolby home theatre due to Dolbys legal team
Hi it was working in Windows 10 but now with Windows 11 with my usb when i choose Dobly Digital it says tha not supported format. I tried Windows 11 patch over Windows 10 and also fresh install from a usb key but same result. That is for the Startech USB external sound card. I've tried with HDMI but Doby Digital doesn't show in format. Do you have any clue why ? Thanks anyway hoping i'll find a way.
Use fx config to rebuild audio end points and make sure you completely disable Windows defender
Is it mandatory to install Dolby Home Theater or Dolby Access for this to work?
Problem is Micro soft store is broken and is unfixable unless maybe re-install of windows witch is not an option
Watch the video doesn't require any of those
I have my dolbi digital systam connected to my tv. I have 5.1 if i play content directli from the smart tv. But im only able to play stereo when my pc is connected to the tv.
Ok are you using arc ? Or optical ?did you patch the TVs hdmi or optical output from the pc did you use actual Dolby encoded files youtube does not support 5.1 on windows so if you test it with a test from there it won't work only streaming service on windows that supports 5.1 is netflix with the 5.1 1080p plug-in only on chrome
Awesome sauce dude thank you 🙌
Ok so one thing I did different... Like some others said, once I restarted my PC the 5.1 driver ceased to function due to the windows defender (Windows 11) corrupting the driver install right. Now I don't trust CCleaner in the least bit nor do I trust really any PC optimization apps, so alternatively you can Exclude the entire puresoft folder from windows defender... If you already installed the APO Driver once it creates a folder in your C/users/yourpcname/appdata/roaming folder call "puresoftapps" you need view hidden folders enabled to see it but this is where the APO driver is installed open up Virus and Threat Protection, Manage Settings, Exclusions, and Exclude the entire puresoftapps folder so that the next time you go to install the APO driver Defender will ignore it... so after uninstalling APO Driver, I used Disc Cleanup to delete discarded files, I deleted the puresoftapps folder, then restarted my PC and proceeded to reinstall APO Driver... Now I have tested it all again and restarted the PC several times and APO Driver is still working. Hope that Helps.
IT'S WORKING! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! thank you so much bro.
I couldn't connect my PC to read 4k content to my sound receiver directly because DENON only support 1080p.
So I had to connect my PC to my TV using an hdmi cable then plug another hdmi (arc compatible) from the TV to my sound receiver. And 5.1 still works like a charm, which I feared wouldn't.
Btw, my speakers have dolby atmos technology, do you have any idea if this setup can make atmos work as well for atmos content?
Dolby Atmos must be used from the windows store and purchased also will only work with dolby Atmos content
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Hello again! Yeah I just saw it in the windows store.
I should use the dolby atmos app from windows store and set it up in my TV advanced properties instead of the dolby home theater app right?
So basically I just stop using the dolby home theater app forever?
But what when I won't play atmos content, will the Dolby Atmos app from the window store will works as good as the dolby home theater for 5.1 and stereo content?
Because I saw that you can't configure anything inside the dolby atmos app. You just turn atmos on and you can enable/disable surround for stereo stuff. Feel pretty underwhelming in comparison to dolby home theater.
Maybe this is normal, sorry I'm pretty new into this!
As I feared, everything is a mess. Atmos was working fine but had really high audio lag when playing non-atmos stuff (I would say around 200/300ms) so it make movies hard to watch and games straight up unplayable. I've done some research and it seems like it's a really common issue and the best way to fix it is to use 2 hdmi outputs from the graphic card but my setup doesn't allow me to do that yet.
It would be fine if I could switch to classic 5.1 to play non-atmos stuff but for some reason 5.1 didn't work with dolby access at all while everything was working fine before at the time I did everything you mentioned in your video. So in the end I had to give it up, and now dolby digital is not working anymore lol. I only get stereo audio no matters what I try...
I am sad right now because the only solution I found to made 5.1 works in the first place was yours.
Now no matter what I do, even if I uninstall everything and use ccleaner to install again, it simply doesn't work. Audio really is a pain in the ass sometimes. (always?)
@@Dowell get discord and add me on it ill help you fix this should be easy enough discord.com/ my user name love the Rain On hot summer days#6520
Hey bud, was just wondering what content on pc you were trying to watch to get 5.1. I also have a denon AVR connected to my pc (pc>receiver>tv) and was trying to get 5.1 on youtube/hbo/ect via Chrome. (games work fine and get proper surround sound) BUT you do know youtube/hbo does not support 5.1 via pc right?(i know, its dumb) I had an older yamaha 5.1 AVR and i thought i was getting 5.1 on youtube/streamig services via chrome (any web browser) but in actuality the old AVR was using whats called multi channel stereo, which is just your 5.1 playing the exact same audio to the rear speakers as the front. Its not real 5.1. My new denon i got id HIGHLY recommend! The 570BT! 4K 120hz(if ur tv/monitor supports it)/HDR Passthrough!
This technically works but all of my video games still recognize my interface as stereo unfortunately
Very strange 🤔 this works for almost every game I own for me join my discord and I'll see if I can help you out
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Sorry I just saw this, I tried joining the discord but there's an error. Care If I PM you ?
@@foriegnuniter yeh just message my account
You Sir, You are a LEGEND
Was I so annoying, that you decided to make an updated video so you don't have to explain it over and over again by yourself? 🤣
Tanks for the Update. I will come back to it when Windows decides to kill my 5.1 again...
Haha mate I've had 120 people this Past 5 months needing help
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st 121 lol
Hi until now fx woks perfectly, but after windows 11 update 24H2, fx configurator does not start, so i cant patch with it, anybody can help me please.
@@JavierBlack1985 no you can't unfortunately windows 11 breaks this all the time try restoring to before the update
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Any chance we can find a way for this to work on 24H2? This method has worked beautifully until now. I have a Sony HT-Z9F 5.1ch Soundbar if that helps connected by Optical. I'm trying to avoid HDMI as it creates a ghost second screen that kills HDR working in Windows 11.
EDIT. It works! Just doesn't look like it works in windows!!!! Thanks man!
orig post: I give up... Just cannot get this nuc11atkc4 to see more than 2 channels of audio when connected to my tcl s451 tv, with arc passthrough to my vizio v51 soundbar. I had hoped this would work, but alas it does not.
Question you do have dobly selected under the advance tap yes ? Because with it selected it will only show up as two channels until you play a dobly codec file like the test in the description the windows test sound is not encoded in dobly so it will only show up in stereo
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Holy Sheetrock! It works! Well the first AAC format test anyways! The others do not come through as surround. Thank you Thank You Thank You!
@@RobbyMaQ no problem happy to help if you can please like and sub haha
all speakers work in the demo video you tagged (5.1) .. out side of that i cant get my sub to play any noise?
Yeah seen a few people with that id recommend you try my dts video
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st it's weird I have a 7.1 system. When I run the video of the guy talking, my 5.1 works. Including sub... When I load up a game like dead space remastered... I get all 7 speakers but not sub.... So odd. 🤔
@@RiskyZeva hmm 🤔 it is strange tho I'm not surprised I've known a few people with 7.1 systems have the same if you have a av receiver if recommend using pcm 7.1 instead of Dolby it's high quality audio as it's uncompressed and will not have this problem
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I figured it out... After like 5hrs of fiddling around... I changed these two things at the same time. So I'm not sure which one was the fix..
1- my AVR had all my speakers set to "large" speakers. I switched them to "small" speakers to allow more lows to go to the sub.
2- when configuring the speakers in the "configure" window I unchecked the full range speaker option...
Now everything works.
@@RiskyZeva hmm 🤔 interesting I'll pin this just in case anyone else needs it
I must've messed up. My soundcard disappeared after trying this and now I can't get device manager or anything else to see my onboard realtek sound device
Ah sounds like you're having a corrupted driver type apo in search and your see maintenance run it and then uninstall should fix your problem if not go to the realtek website and download the latest driver package and install it should fix your problems
Man this is such a great tutorial! Thanks for showing. However, i noticed my audio is extremely quiet with those drivers installed. Using the equalizer to increase loudness is not helpful either.
Sounds like you may need to change a setting on your av receiver genuinely speak this shouldn't effect your volume at all as it's just sending the dobly codec to your avrs dac so there maybe a setting your need to adjust on your box
I get Dolby digital in the games and surround sound works for most of them except some.
There are games such as cyberpunk 2077 and hogwarts legacy that seem to upsample surround sound only and not true surround sound. This is because the audio dialog from characters does not rotate to rear speakers if I rotate the camera. They only transfer from right, center and left speaker. Only background music is heard from the rear speakers.
Do you know how to fix such issues?
Hey unfortunately for Hogwarts legacy that game only has 5.1/7.1 Dolby Atmos support and that's only on console not PC cyberpunk 2077 has 5.1/.71 but only in dobly Atmos if your receiver supports Atmos id recommend using it for cyberpunk as for Hogwarts legacy unfortunately only way to get 5.1 would be mod the game to enable it or to get a console that or go slap a dev until they add it hope this helps
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Thanks man for the reply! Unfortunately I have an old A/V receiver. The best I can do is DD EX 6.1 surround. It just sucks not all PC games have standard support for dolby digital.
It maybe related to the publisher as well.
Ubisoft games I've tried all have working dolby digital surround but for like WB games (hogwarts legacy and gotham knights) I get the issue
@@carranz35 I get yah I actually upgraded my receiver and no longer use dobly digital I use pcm 7.1 witch is just way better for sound quality unfortunately PC surround sound support for games and movies is pretty poor
where is the dolby digital home theatre app located for download?
Check other comments I've provided the link there UA-cam no longer allows me to link mega files in my description
Ok thx
At first this worked flawlessly - now I can't get Dolby Digital to show under Properties > Advanced anymore
Did you fix it or do you need help
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Long story - I ended up just setting up the standard windows 5.1 support (Sound > Playback > Receiver > Configure, with HDMI to Onkyo 7100 receiver). This means I don't really get surround in-browser on youtube videos labeled as surround (and no Dolby Digital option under Properties > Advanced, only DTS:X / Dolby Atmos for some dumb reason) - but at least it works with Plex. And at least I don't have to reinstall the Apo driver with this convoluted weird CCleaner process every time the nvidia audio driver gets corrupted/bugged out/erased by the system (which is often).
@@thebrunoserge I'm pretty sure I can help you fix dobly if you jump in my discord later
Thanks a lot buddy solved my issue. God bless you
Hi. I got everything except the dolby home theater installer. where do i find it?
Hi sorry I tried to respond UA-cam seems to be blocking my links to the file I'll try again if not DM on discord and link
hi, i manage to output netflix and dts movies by this method, but in game, it doesn't detect multi channel such as Uncharted pc. only stereo out. i confuse
You need to configure the game in sound settings to out put 5.1 instead of stereo
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st like i said. the game in its audio settings, does not give me 5.1 option
@@omsuwiperkasa that's very strange ok do you got discord? If so add me and I'll see if I can help with fixing it
it's a problem of the game, you have to change it to 3d sound or headphones and it will work. I played through Uncharted and it seems it was an issue with 5.1 systems in general.
Uncharted game is bugged
I try other game like RDR2 or FF7R their 5.1 work like charm
Only uncharted bugged like that, need 3d spatial selected and problem is gone
The down side is, their voice volume are so low,but music and effects are damn loud
Thank you very much, the most understandable video about this subject for windows 11. Is dolby digital going to behave like dolby digital live? I'm asking this because apo doesn't include dolby digital live
I imagine it should work fine as long as the device doesn't have compatibility issues with the modern os
how do you get the dolbyhometheater installer?
@@chrisanthony144 Google it
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Hi Bud, i found it but its a lenovo version via google and getting Dolby audio driver versions mismatches where the one i have on installed is newer. Anyway, i want to say thanks for the great video as it did get dolby working on this old 2013 onkyo ht-s5300 system i bought used last week.
Cheers and all the best , bro!
Got a problem today, everything was working yesterday flawlessly, but today I turned on the PC again and I'm stuck with Stereo sound again :(
Still have the Dolby Home Theater V4 app, but in my sound properties I don't have the "Dolby" tab anymore.
Any ideas?
And now it says on the sound properties, advanced options tab, that the Dolby format is not compatible with my device, when it was functional yesterday :(((
Ok firstly more then likely two different things have happened one your anti virus deleted it or two your video card has had a driver update this is simple to fix first run apo and use its repair function then repatch the sound device with fx config should fix it
Well, got to fix it after doing every step in the video 4 times lol
But once again, the next day everything set back to the default settings. I don't think it's the antivirus because it never notified me anything either on the first or the second time (got Kaspersky), so basically I now know how to make it work but I have to do it every time I turn on the PC. Any ideas on how to make it permanent? (Also no, haven't updated the GPU)
@@krlos_amg hit me up on discord and I'll see if I can help you make it's stay working
@@krlos_amg love the Rain On hot summer days#6520 my tag add me and hit me up
You saved my Life entertaiment, Many Thanks
Thank you very much for the guide, everything worked, but for myself I chose dts connect, please tell me, is there a similar program for dts with an equalizer like for dolby digital?
Not to sure to be fair I don't really use any of this I personally use pcm 7.1 instead I'd imagine there's a eq available for dts connect tho
every time I try to follow the steps in the video I find myself without the possibility of selecting Dolby Digital in the advanced tab
(even if the Dolby tab appears). I tried uninstalling, cleaning with CCleaner and reinstalling but nothing changes. any suggestions?
First let's start with what device are you trying to patch is it optical is it arc over HDMI ? Do you know if that format is actually supported by your device are you using. Any slipters
Between the HDMI if your using HDMI is this going to a speaker set or to a av receiver? There's a lot to need to know give me a info dump then I can try and help
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st i'm patching optical device. no splitter using. optical cable connected from mobo to av recivier
@@pg5687 ok what av receiver is it ? And what motherboard do you have
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st recivier Bose Lifestyle 48 and mobo asus tuf gaming x570-plus
@@pg5687 ok I'll look in to it and I'll get back to you your av receiver supports dobly that's for sure does it have the same problem patching DTS ?
Thank you. This was very informative. I have a Sony TV Using ARC.PC has HDMI out from my NVidia 2070 to my TV, then from TV down to my Onkyo NR636 receiver. I am able to select DOLBY DIGITAL from the advanced tab and test it, but I only get 2 channels. .When I go to configure and select 5.1 on the speaker setup page, I get an error when I try to test "Failed tp play test tone". If I hit NEXT through the wizard, the last page errors out with "Format not supported by the device"?
Do you know why this would be? My receiver is Dolby capable. I believe my card is as well. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Just want to add. If I leave windows set to 2,0 stereo, and open up a test vid in PotPlayer with the player set to 5.1, it works. So odd.
@@kandrkandr I thought I had replied to this you do not use speaker setup at all leave that alone that's only for analog the only thing that handles the 5.1 is the dobly driver Dolby when it is selected its only stereo as Dolby is a digital codec that windows test sound does not support so it only plays back in stereo as long as Dolby is enabled any Dolby content will work out of the box 90% of the time
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Thank you for the quick reply. Yeah, everything sounds great now. I did find one issue, I opened up Overwatch this morning, and there is about a half a second delay on sound. Did you experience anything like this? I will try another game to see if it is just Overwatch with the issue.
@@kandrkandr depends is it like a delay between the image and sound or does the sound cut in and out,? Is it's a Delay between you shooting and your Audio playing out of sync that's a setting you must setup in your receiver normally it's called lip sync adjust it well firing may also be called sync timer this is a setting that adjusts the delay between sound used for TVs and audio sync up same will go for games especially if you're playing at high frame rates it's used to sync sound to the picture movement mainly lips so the voice plays at the same time the image moves
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st It had something to do with my system being old. My processor was a 4th gen 4820k. Upgrading got rid of the issue. Thanks for the help, and the info.
Says it is installed but not showing up anywhere, turned off anti virus and did exactly what you did but not showing anywhere in device manager or the speaker / sound manager in windows 11, everything is the same as when I started. What am I doing wrong ? please My setup is pc goes into my TSR 5830 AVR Receiver via HDMI , that outputs out to my TU700 Samsung TV via HDMI e-arc and for the life of me I cannot get Dolby anything to my receiver, it is all PCM. Oh and my audio from my PC comes from my AMD GPU rx 6500 xt PC has a Ryzen 5 5500 CPU. It has been driving me crazy because I know I should be getting much better sound then what I am getting. Oh but the only time that I get the proper sound to my AVR is when I go into Dolby Access and play one of those test videos then it shows DD+/Atmos but that is the only time I can get it.
Sounds like the driver has installed but it's failed to patch to the device I can try to help you fix it please add me on discord love the Rain On hot summer days#6520
Thanks man,it works great on my pc with old creative inspirion 5.1 digital surround system.
Somehow today I have messes something with the dolby theater and tryed reinstalling drivers and software,but I can't acces your mega nz link,so if you could reupload files or link,or somehow send me the software only it would be great.
Thanks for the good work and your effort
UA-cam has removed my ability to allow that link your need to use the Google link instead
I still don't understand why any of this is necessary. Is it just not possible to transmit more than 2 audio channels without some Dolby product, or am I missing something?
That genuinely depends on the audio system windows had terrible surround sound support by default unless you have a av receiver that supports 5.1 or 7.1 pcm then your be stuck with only stereo with out using a dobly or dts codec decoder
Why is Dolby not added in the default format section of my system?
I don't know you tell me ? Bit of a strange question did you do the mod ? Did it fail abit more detail is needed
hi which dolby products should i use for bluetooth earbuds?
Personally if you're using stereo earbuds or headphones it's generally not worth using fake surround sound with them
Unless there of high quality with a wide sound stage also most dolby codecs don't work over Bluetooth
I managed to go through the whole process, but whenever I set it to Dolby it give a loud static churp before playing the audio. Wondering if anyone else is also having this issue?
@@vonlogan1 you using optical or arc ?
@@SirQuacksalotthe1stso I have an hdmi running to a splitter that then runs to my projector and a 5.1 Samsung sound bar. The splitter is designed to let you choose 7.1, 5.1 2.1 or mono. And I can hear the surround sound working well. But I can’t get Dolby to work without that dreaded static chrup sound.
@@vonlogan1 I'd personally recommend you try using pcm 5.1 or 7.1 watch my latest video your get far better audio using pcm
@@vonlogan1 I'd guess that it's possibly something to do with your splitter but as your using one I'd recommend using PCM instead mate PCM 5.1 is pure uncompressed surround .
so it will sound far better than using Dolby as it's not compromised by compression watch my lasted video on it
@@SirQuacksalotthe1stthanks for the tip and for taking the time to reply.
cannot open fx configurator, have tried multiple versions and used the ccleaner
Let me take a guess are you using windows 11 ?
For me Dolby showed up in properties and i heared i huge quality improvement but it is still in 2 channels and the front one too. I have the logitech Z 5500 speakers using optical cable to my motherboard Asrock B450M Steel Legend. Do you know how i can fix this?
And also at the advanced tab i selected dolby atmos but the other options are only 2 channels
@@Luca-iw5dk I'm pretty sure I can help you fix it message me on discord and I'll see about helping you fix the problem
it says dolby digital is not supported by this device, sigh. and it is connected by an optical cable from my Sound Blaster to my Bose Ultra Sound Bar.
How is this so difficult?
That's interesting try patching dts or Dolby digital plus homr theatre
Where do I get the Dolby Home Theater V4 setup?
Should be linked in the comments pined by me
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st I got around installing it, it gives an error: The current Dolby audio drive version is 7.2.8000.13 and the software application expects driver version 7.2.7000.4 Please install a valid drive and software application combination.
@@nkata0 you sure the Dolby driver is patched right ?
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st yup, I get 5.1 signal all around my home theater system and playing Alan Wake 2 with surround effect on my OLED tv :)) - but I would like to have more bass you know?
@@nkata0 not gonna never had that problem with anyone else I can only recommend that you try to adjust your bass output from your av receiver or TV failing that try reinstalling the Dolby driver and repatching
when i goto install it comes up with the virus you said but nothing shows in the protection history so not sure how to fix it so the driver installs
Best bet turn off your anti virus and run
Hey bro, thanks for video
Your welcome hope it helps
not working on win10 and sony ht s40r via spdif...
@@klein977 I can probably help you fix your problem do you got discord ?
Format not supported by the device every time I select dolby digital😥
Sad I'd recommend trying pcm instead I can show you how on discord if you like
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st it would be great💕✨
@@mr.anonymus2852 lovetherainonhotsummerdays my discord give me an add and I'll be free later on today
Hi there. Will this APO driver work along with my sound card which has an optical out? (ASUS Xonar AE) Sorry. Don't know much about it.
It should already be patched by your sound card drivers
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Thank you. I'm getting 5.1 but not DTS for some reason. Thanks for the fast reply, I appreciate your time and knowledge.
Great video made my surround work with LG c9, But whats the benefit of dolbyhometheater program ? I could not see if in the ApoDriver Rar where do i download it? Thanks!
Unfortunately UA-cam has removed my ability to link to it till I give them my I'd and it's mainly for EQ and upmixing enhancements
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st When clicking dolby digital and trying to test my surround speakers work 100% at your surround AAA mp4 test only, Then i go to youtube search for surround test and try play, Does not work the surround speakers play in Front / Left front speakers, Any idea why it stops working? also are windows suppose to set my lg c9 tv to Stereo and not 5.1 in the speakers setup? If i change it back to 5.1 windows auto set the quality to CD quality and not dolby digital anymore. Thanks for any help. :)
@@vonown3d that's because all of that's bullshit UA-cam does not support 5.1 or 7.1 play back all those videos are a waste of time the only version of UA-cam what had 5.1 support was on a old smart TV and that version has not been touched in years your only get stereo sound untill you do one of two things play a game or movie with 5.1 Dolby surround support note only streaming platform that works on windows Is netflix with the 1080p 5.1 chrome store plugin almost all games should work out of the box or have sound options in the menu for it I'll be trying to fix the home theater file soon as for the other thing it must have the dobly option enabled as show in the video it only shows stereo when selected as windows test sound does not support dobly codec
Ty so much, very useful :)
so i have Z906 speakers. On PC. will this work for them? Also i am trying to find the Dolby APO drivers but im not having much luck. Could a link be shared? The one in the description says the anti virus catches it. Kinda scary so was trying to just find the original link my self. Thanks for all info
The links gonna be the same no matter what the anti virus freaks out because it modifys drivers your not confident that it's safe don't use it
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st thanks for the reply =)
@@Kordinut no problem mate it's completely safe but it's up to you at the end of the day to choose weather you feel that you want to risk it tho if you read all the comments I think your find most people are pleased with the out come haha
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st Well... i did it. LOL and.. IT WORKS GREAT! i had no idea what i was missing out on. I will save this vid and proclaim your name throughout the lands!! ( also, liked and subscribed )
@@Kordinut haha 😂 glad it worked out for you mate
Strangely enough e-ac3 works perfectly but ec3 downmixes to stereo. Idk why. Strange
bro i have B660-G wifi ausus motherboard and old Creative 5.1 i did connect it to the rear panel . on windows test and realteck audio concle work perfect , but when i play music there is no sound on the rear speakers .... dose what i see here fix the problem ? thanks alot ( i connected it as colors showen ) green front L R , black for rear , and pink for center sub . please help me , Thanks alot mate
Music files are only 2.1 your need to upmix with the dobly program if you have creative sound card it should have dobly already and have a software sweet that your get from the crreative website what should have a upmixing profile
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st i dont have sound card , i use the build-in rear panel from my motherboard Asus rog strixs b660-g gaming wifi. excuse my bad english but i try tell u what my problem is.
My rear speakers play now only rear effects otherwise are silence . i want them to play normal sounds (as front speakers) but ofc keeping their job as play rear effects .
Thanks alot bro and sorry for wasting ur time on my problem :)
@@ahmadamayzeer8308 ok no problem I miss read what you said please contact me on discord I'll try my best to help you out
thanks...you are THE Man..
format not supported by device, how do i fix?
i patched to hdmi for my samsung TV that supported arc dts or dolby digital
Pretty self explanatory unfortunately your GPU doesn't support the format what GPU do you have and you may have to use optical if you can't upgrade it
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st my gpu is 3060Ti
@@williamwen3477 laptop or desktop? I know laptops dislike it and if not that's very strange do you have a I GPU like with a Intel CPU ? If so you may wanna test it through that
@@SirQuacksalotthe1st desktop
Plugged in my samsung tv 40HU7000 to 3060ti via hdmi, and try your trick to patch 5.1 but is show "format not supported by device" when i tried to apply dolby digital
@@williamwen3477 seems strange possibly your GPU just doesn't support Dolby but I doubt it do you have discord ? If so add me on there and we can see if we can fix it