Is there surround sound support for youtube ?

[sandeeprawat]

Anyone got 5.1 on YouTube to work?

 

[vinothkumar]

Anyone got 5.1 on YouTube to work?

5.1 PCM on shield, not sure about other devices.

 

[Srinivasa Rao]

5.1 PCM on shield, not sure about other devices.

I have a shield 2019, I have tried many videos on YouTube for 5.1 but couldn't find any. Can you please point me to some videos where you have got PCM 5.1. Thanks in advance.

 

[argho]

I have a Shield. I used to get 5.1 sound , but it stopped around a year ago. Since then, have been unable to coax 5.1 out of YouTube

 

[argho]

For example - this video used to play with 5.1 PCM, but not any more :

 

[pkhammu2005]

YouTube keeps experimenting with 5.1
A year back they uploaded telugu movie Majili songs in 5.1 and then removed after few days.
But it sounded way more compressed than the 2.0 feed.

 

[mail2sumanth]

I have been looking for multichannel feature since long. Also I see tons of multichannel speaker testings including atoms and other demo videos, so we may be missing something. Otherwise all these videos make no sense. I’m guessing premium content of YouTube may have this option, i didn’t try, so cannot confirm. But what ever I did, couldn’t make multichannel work for YouTube.

 

[sandeeprawat]

I have been looking for multichannel feature since long. Also I see tons of multichannel speaker testings including atoms and other demo videos, so we may be missing something. Otherwise all these videos make no sense. I’m guessing premium content of YouTube may have this option, i didn’t try, so cannot confirm. But what ever I did, couldn’t make multichannel work for YouTube.

I got premium but I only get audio on fronts.

 

[tusharshukla1991]

"If you buy a movie on youtube, you will get it in dolby"
I read this somewhere but couldn't find link right now.

 

[argho]

I have been looking for multichannel feature since long. Also I see tons of multichannel speaker testings including atoms and other demo videos, so we may be missing something. Otherwise all these videos make no sense. I’m guessing premium content of YouTube may have this option, i didn’t try, so cannot confirm. But what ever I did, couldn’t make multichannel work for YouTube.

I have YouTube premium. Dont get surround sound.

 

[Srinivasa Rao]

I have YouTube premium. Dont get surround sound.

Help me in deciding to get YouTube Premium, is it worth it. How does it differ from regular YouTube. Will there be any improvement in sound quality (I mean the bitrate). I watch a lot of music videos on YouTube on my Shield. Thanks in advance.

 

[argho]

I dont think any of that changes. The only advantage of YouTube premium, is no ads.

 

[lcfrederico]

Hello everyone!

I have YouTube Premium and nothing changes about audio type and/or quality...

Try this one to test if your system is properly configured: https://www2.iis.fraunhofer.de/AAC/multichannel.html (works perfectly with Google Chrome)

My setup is:

Dell XPS 8500
Realtek Digital Output (on board Audio)
Optically connected to
5.1 Pioneer VSX-D510 receiver
Voice Meeter Potato