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Highfalutintodd
Prominent Collaborator I
June 9, 2020
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Sonos Arc: Lack of DTS a problem?

As I wait for my Sonos Arc to arrive, I’m thinking about all of this way too much. I think I’ve been cooped up at home too long and putting together my first Sonos system is giving me a new project to obsess over. ;-) 

Question: For those Sonos veterans who have put together 5.1 systems for their Beam / Playbar, has the lack of DTS support been an issue for you? And, if so, how have you gotten around it? Have you ever run into a situation where you simply weren’t able to get any audio because of lack of DTS support? 

Thanks in advance for any input! 

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McMurdeRAnswer
Prominent Collaborator I
June 16, 2020

Due you play a lot of blu ray disks? If so, the answer unfortunately is yes, as a lot of them, and even a small number of DVDs are have audio encoded in DTS format.

One key thing that almost everone ignores is that Sonos relies on the TV to pass the track over to the speaker. Precious few TVs can pass-through DTS, and if yours doesn't then its a moot point - you'll end up with stereo regardless of what the soundbar supports.

There are workarounds. Some blue ray players and consoles can transcode the tracks to Dolby on the fly - that's the easiest solution, athough I've found that the PS4 can only do it when using optical output.

I personally rip every disk I buy and transcode the DTS tracks to dolby. I've put the files on a plex server and the disks go in the attic - hard copy formats are slowly on the way out, like it or not. I never leave the couch as a bonus.

If you don't watch many blu rays its a non issue.

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Lekaa
Lyricist III
September 7, 2020

Well, I download some movies to the PC and many are DTS

Bjmort
Avid Contributor I
September 7, 2020

Well, I download some movies to the PC and many are DTS

Illegally? If so Apple TV decodes to DD5.1 so using plex It should decode DTS played via plex to DD5.1

Lekaa
Lyricist III
September 7, 2020

Well, I download some movies to the PC and many are DTS

Illegally? If so Apple TV decodes to DD5.1 so using plex It should decode DTS played via plex to DD5.1

What about streaming torrent files? Real debrid, haven't found any method, even plex don't transcode this type

 

 

106rallye
106rallye
September 8, 2020

@Evander With the right settings Kodi (found here https://en.community.sonos.com/home-theater-228993/will-the-playbase-work-with-shield-tv-6769550), for example on an Nvidia Shield, will transcode DTS to DD 5.1

Lekaa
Lyricist III
September 8, 2020

@Evander With the right settings Kodi (found here https://en.community.sonos.com/home-theater-228993/will-the-playbase-work-with-shield-tv-6769550), for example on an Nvidia Shield, will transcode DTS to DD 5.1

Issue is arc don't use optic, uses Hdmi

106rallye
106rallye
September 8, 2020

These setting will also work with HDMI-ARC. I use them with my Beam.

    Lekaa
    Lyricist III
    September 8, 2020

    These setting will also work with HDMI-ARC. I use them with my Beam.

    In sonos app, when I play a dts movie using kodi, it shows stero 2.0, I'll post my settings later today

    106rallye
    106rallye
    September 8, 2020

    These are my settings. Kodi is in Dutch, my native language. I've followed the settings mentioned in the link above. I do not understand why this works, but at least on my Shield 2019, via my 2019 Samsung QE65Q90 to my Beam (all HDMI) it does.

      Lekaa
      Lyricist III
      September 8, 2020

      These are my settings. Kodi is in Dutch, my native language. I've followed the settings mentioned in the link above. I do not understand why this works, but at least on my Shield 2019, via my 2019 Samsung QE65Q90 to my Beam (all HDMI) it does.

      I have nvidia shield 2019 too. I'll try those settings and I'll report back, thank you for the pictures.

      Do the Beam support LPCM? 

       

      106rallye
      106rallye
      September 8, 2020

      As I understand it at this moment there's no support for LPCM. At least for the Arc they seem to be working on it: https://en.community.sonos.com/home-theater-228993/lpcm-eta-for-arc-6842558

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