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Best way of dealing with 6.1 Audio Tracks?

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mojave:

--- Quote from: jmone on January 15, 2016, 04:26:22 am ---I agree that it solves all the channel layout probs, and I've been using 5.1 Mixing due to the 6.1 issue... but I've been using "Source # of Channels" for the last few years as I found that on 2ch Video that dialogue with MC is less focused on the Center speaker than what the AVR does (eg it tended to be spread over the front 3 channels).... but let me check again as I could be wrong.

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Check "For Stereo Sources only mix to 2.1" in Output Format if you want 2ch Video to not be upmixed. You still get 6.1 and 7.1 downmixed to 5.1, but stereo doesn't have any upmixing if Subwoofer is set to Silent in Output Format.

If you want some stereo content upmixed and some not, then create another Zone and use ZoneSwitch.

I agree with Hendrik that one should almost always set Channels to the physical channel count.

fitbrit:
I have a custom field called audio channels, where I put in 2.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.1 7.1 etc. You could make a zone switch rule based on the custom field. If empty or not 6.1 use source number of channels. If 6.1, mix to 5.1.

squeedle:
I have had this same issue and think it would be nice for jriver to offer a conditional upmixing feature, same as it does for conditional resampling. E.g. if channels = 7 then upmix to 8. That's the only time i want jriver altering the #channels period. Until it does that--and I'm assuming it never will--I have to manually add the 8th channel via Audacity and save it as a FLAC file and remux it into the MKV file blablblaa.

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