Your are right i am using at this moment VLC on the shield but i am trying to get Kodi also working
How do you used Kodi, over UPnP?Yep the Nvidia Shield TV is a great device and has been around forever (2017). Unless I'm missing something it sounds like In Peeties case the mac isn't really involved at all other than acting as a network disk source for the Shield. He doesn't mention the player he's using on the Shield to actually play the Atmos files. I use Kodi on my Shield but there are a number of (Android TV based) players that can do this.
Just so hard to believe that Mac's don't allow passthrough over hdmi. Is what it is I guess.
The new functionality appears in various places in macOS 15, including Apple's TV, Music, and QuickTime Player apps.
Hallelujah! Just downloaded the Sequoia beta, found and checked HDMI pass-through in the Dolby Atmos settings in Apple Music, and I'm listening to Wilco's new EP in glorious Atmos, streaming from my MacBook Pro to my AVR.Mac passthrough is on the way:
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/07/03/macos-sequoia-supports-hdmi-passthrough/
Can't find a pass-through setting in VLC for Mac 3.0 yet, either. Or IINA 1.3.5. Looks like Atmos is limited to Apple Music (and TV) so far. Hopefully it's just a matter of waiting for the third-party developers to catch up, and not a limitation in Mac OS?Hallelujah! Just downloaded the Sequoia beta, found and checked HDMI pass-through in the Dolby Atmos settings in Apple Music, and I'm listening to Wilco's new EP in glorious Atmos, streaming from my MacBook Pro to my AVR.
Don't know yet whether this will work with VLC, as there's no pass-through option in the MacOS General Settings>Audio section. But we'll see.
Can you check if quicktime can play passthrough lossless?Hallelujah! Just downloaded the Sequoia beta, found and checked HDMI pass-through in the Dolby Atmos settings in Apple Music, and I'm listening to Wilco's new EP in glorious Atmos, streaming from my MacBook Pro to my AVR.
Don't know yet whether this will work with VLC, as there's no pass-through option in the MacOS General Settings>Audio section. But we'll see.
I'll try later today. Quicktime has certainly been listed as one of the Apple media apps to which passthrough has been added. (I didn't realize anyone even used it anymore!) But I'm not an experienced Mac user, so I'm not sure it will play hi-res Atmos.Can you check if quicktime can play passthrough lossless?
I can confirm that QuickTime will send Atmos-encoded MP4 via HDMI to an AVR. In the "View > Audio" menu, be sure to check the "Prefer Passthrough" setting.I'll try later today. Quicktime has certainly been listed as one of the Apple media apps to which passthrough has been added. (I didn't realize anyone even used it anymore!) But I'm not an experienced Mac user, so I'm not sure it will play hi-res Atmos.
The first problem is that Quicktime doesn't handle MKV natively. The choices seem to be to convert to .MOV (with, say, the "Perian" plug-in, although support for that plugin seems to have stopped, plus I've never heard of Atmos-encoded MOV) or to .MP4--and it's not clear to me whether MP4 can support higher-resolution/TrueHD Atmos, or only lower-res DD+JOC.
I suspect that eventually, third-party players like Elmedia, Movist, VLC, and IINA will build in a passthrough setting.
MP4 is lossy not losslessI can confirm that QuickTime will send Atmos-encoded MP4 via HDMI to an AVR. In the "View > Audio" menu, be sure to check the "Prefer Passthrough" setting.
QuickTime won't play MKV, though, even if you first use foobar or VLC to transcode the MKV file to MP4 or M4V.
I've found that the Elmedia player for Mac has an audio passthrough setting, but that setting is only accessible in the paid version of the program, which will set you back 20 bucks. I think we just have to wait for the other third-party media players to catch up. MacOS Sequoia is still only in beta, after all.
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