Im shocked nobody else thought of this oh so obvious problem and maybe solution
the sickening fact that a brand new 5.1 or 7.1 system cannot receive atmos so ONLY 2 options is bite the bullet and get a new AVR
or an over priced fake atmos soundbar that is "3D" virtualization of atmos-I did locate an 8 channel "puck" that feeds a wireless system
that can add atmos to 5.1 but requires proprietary height speakers for over $500
*I still need to figure out how to mute the non-height channels so any advice on a gui for channel separation would be great*
specs* Z906 fed dolby digital via optical out from Hisense TV which is fed by either shieldTV or HTPC R10 alienware with rx6500xt HDMI out
to TV then the R10 optical out to a samsung HTS-4500 blueray 5.1 AV
using "dolby atmos for speakers" software from APO driver or was it "Dolby Atmos by The True Tech Group" or maybe "atmos for gaming"
from another lad online as I havent had good luck with APO driver on dell aurora puters but these packages contained drivers
anybody know how to extract the drivers from APO driver? Sorry my brain is mush over something shoulds have been easy
so a few edits in default.xml, default_settings.xml as well as a OEM headphone pre-set
I had found a dolby .xml a few years back that had external_speaker and internal_speaker where headphone option normally is and it got
me thinking maybe?-now this is after messing with cavern, equalizer apo and hesuvi-wow! no easy way to run atmos from pc even though
the tools should be able to but the cavern vst .txt example is not in correct format(I tried to make separate channel and filter pages using peace equalizer to link to main cavern EQ-APO default but no joy-same with hesuvi(I found a dolby speaker .wav but no speaker atmos only for crappy headphones! AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGG! same with cavern realtime which is looking like it doesnt actually decode atmos it just replicates it but forum after forum with zero guidance on what I would think would be huge-real time non fake atmos from netflix for example-Im not ripping bluerays and rendering files thats silly when there is a better and easier way-so the z906 gets dolby digital plus unedited at the same time the samsung is getting the front heights one of the .xml has verbage "rear-height-filter mode" so I am hoping to add those but unsure how to redirect sides or rears to heights accept maybe equalizer apo but trying that and vermeeter banana virtual cables, etc was a horrible experience-the samsung blueray has MAT encoder and i thought about hacking it and reroute the channels in its "bios" but there has to be a way to catch the stream and use SL=RLTH and SR=RRT-ive zeroed out the virualization settings "virtualizer-partial-height-mode" and "height_mode"
which is for headphones and my guess is in doing so prives pure atmos albeit lossy dolby digital plus and not TrueHD atmos but doubtful
theres a differnce unless using hiugh end gear
any ideas?
the sickening fact that a brand new 5.1 or 7.1 system cannot receive atmos so ONLY 2 options is bite the bullet and get a new AVR
or an over priced fake atmos soundbar that is "3D" virtualization of atmos-I did locate an 8 channel "puck" that feeds a wireless system
that can add atmos to 5.1 but requires proprietary height speakers for over $500
*I still need to figure out how to mute the non-height channels so any advice on a gui for channel separation would be great*
specs* Z906 fed dolby digital via optical out from Hisense TV which is fed by either shieldTV or HTPC R10 alienware with rx6500xt HDMI out
to TV then the R10 optical out to a samsung HTS-4500 blueray 5.1 AV
using "dolby atmos for speakers" software from APO driver or was it "Dolby Atmos by The True Tech Group" or maybe "atmos for gaming"
from another lad online as I havent had good luck with APO driver on dell aurora puters but these packages contained drivers
anybody know how to extract the drivers from APO driver? Sorry my brain is mush over something shoulds have been easy
so a few edits in default.xml, default_settings.xml as well as a OEM headphone pre-set
I had found a dolby .xml a few years back that had external_speaker and internal_speaker where headphone option normally is and it got
me thinking maybe?-now this is after messing with cavern, equalizer apo and hesuvi-wow! no easy way to run atmos from pc even though
the tools should be able to but the cavern vst .txt example is not in correct format(I tried to make separate channel and filter pages using peace equalizer to link to main cavern EQ-APO default but no joy-same with hesuvi(I found a dolby speaker .wav but no speaker atmos only for crappy headphones! AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGG! same with cavern realtime which is looking like it doesnt actually decode atmos it just replicates it but forum after forum with zero guidance on what I would think would be huge-real time non fake atmos from netflix for example-Im not ripping bluerays and rendering files thats silly when there is a better and easier way-so the z906 gets dolby digital plus unedited at the same time the samsung is getting the front heights one of the .xml has verbage "rear-height-filter mode" so I am hoping to add those but unsure how to redirect sides or rears to heights accept maybe equalizer apo but trying that and vermeeter banana virtual cables, etc was a horrible experience-the samsung blueray has MAT encoder and i thought about hacking it and reroute the channels in its "bios" but there has to be a way to catch the stream and use SL=RLTH and SR=RRT-ive zeroed out the virualization settings "virtualizer-partial-height-mode" and "height_mode"
which is for headphones and my guess is in doing so prives pure atmos albeit lossy dolby digital plus and not TrueHD atmos but doubtful
theres a differnce unless using hiugh end gear
any ideas?
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