Hey Gang!
I have a SONOS Arc system currently as my main TV Audio set up: The ARC is connected via eARC from my 2021 LG G2 77” panel. For the rear surrounds I have two SONOS Five’s, and a Sub to round out the “Atmos” system. The two inputs i have for watching content are 1. AppleTV 4K (primary) and 2. a Panasonic DP-UB820 4K disc player (for films I really love and want to have great sound/picture). I have had no issues with the sound output fro the AppleTV, but with the Panasonic Player, if it’s encoded to 7.1 (using the Arrival - the Amy Adams one - 4K disc as an example), it only outputs to “Stereo PCM.” Looking at the sleeve it’s encoded to 7.1 so I am assuming this might be the issue.
The other native audio tracks on the disc are unhelpful since the Dolby 5.1 is ‘descriptive audio’ which I don’t need. My other discs (Dune, Blade Runner 2049, MCU films) are all out putting correctly. Wondering if there’s a solve? Conversely, when i watch Arrival on AppleTV (the version I purchased) it outputs at Dolby PCM 5.1 which is better but not ideal. I’d like to have 5.1 on the disc, so curious how I can make that happen. All systems are running current OS and I verified that yesterday (disc player, AppleTV and LG G2)