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RockyMalerbo:
I am saving problem with MC 27 that I have had since MC 22. Most DVD rips will not play the DTS or Dolby surround audio. JRiver Media Center plays whatever is at the top of the Audio Options Menu, which is usually Stereo. I have to use PowerDVD 8 to hear these rips in surround sound.
I have my laptop connected to a Sony A/V Receiver through an HDMI cable. Under It is set to WASPI.
Under Tools/Options under Audio - DSP & Output Format, I have Output Encoding set to NONE. The CHANNELS Tab is set to SOURCE NUMBER OF CHANNELS. The Sony A/V Receiver is set to AFD Auto.
This works for most things. There is no problem with Blu-ray rips, just DVD rips.

wer:
You seem to be saying that MC is playing the "wrong" audio track; that it is playing the stereo track, when you want it to play the multichannel track.  If that's not what you mean, post again. So...

I'm guessing that your DVD rips have multiple audio tracks.

I'm also guessing that whatever you're using to rip them, isn't setting the default track or track order the way you'd like.

If you rip them with MakeMKV (which is what I recommend) then MakeMKV will always make the multichannel track the first and default track.  But you can control which track is the default by selecting it during the rip.

If your rips are in MKV format, you can use MKVtoolnixGUI to change the default track, or the track order, even after the rip is finished.

Lastly, MC will play whatever audio track you want, even if it's not the default track.  Simply select your favored audio track from the right-click menu during playback, or using the OSD in theater view.  You need only do this once, per file. Once you have selected an audio track, MC will remember and use that track every time you play that file.

If you want MC to automatically pick the right track first time every time, you need to get your rip settings right. MC picks a track based on what it finds in the file the first time it looks. Thereafter, it remembers the last track used for that file.

RockyMalerbo:
Thank you for your reply. I used AnyDVD for my DVD an Blu-ray rips until they had the nerve to void my lifetime warranty. Then I started using Leawo Blu-ray copy. Both of these programs preserve all audio streams, except MLP on DVD-A discs.
Most of my DVD rips are audio-only - for instance, the Jethro Tull deluxe sets.
I haven't heard of MakeMKV until you mentioned it. I will give it a try. I hope it preserves the audio menu.
When a DVD rip is playing and I right-click on it, there is nothing about audio. It has DVD Menu, Jump To, Subtitles (I usually have to get the subtitles that way. Selecting subtitles in the language menu doesn't work in JRiver either). I wish there was AUDIO. That would make it so much easier. I am trying to attach a screen crop.
I haven't worked with Theater View. So far I have found it annoying when it pops-up automatically. I will look into that. Thank you for the suggestion.
I will be learning things about JRiver for the rest of my life.
Thank you very much!

wer:
In the screenshot you showed, you're playing either a DVD disc directly, or an IFO DVD backup,  For that type of playback, you can use the DVD's animated menu to select a different audio track, if one exists. Select "DVD Menu" from the popup in your screenshot to access it.

If you were playing a ripped content file, like a MKV, you would see a "Streams" menu in the screenshot you showed, where you could directly select whichever audio stream you want.

I don't care about DVD menus; for me they get in the way of the content.  I rip the disc to a MKV file with all the audio and subtitle streams I want.

tij:
MakeMKV is great ... but i dont think it can rip audio only (ie omit video stream) ... not directly anyway

One can remove protection from disk using MakeMKV and extract audio only usine MKVToolnix (both MakeMKV and MKVToolnix are lossless extractors ... they remux)

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