WTF are all these new audio options?

by 2018WorldCup

... in Oreo.

Someone explain them to me.

they made them more complicated. I use Toslink and now I get sound from the TV and my home theater

ProgrammerPlus

WTF you talking about?

rotzel78

I don't know what the "Dolby Sounds" and "DTS sounds" are for, but the "Auto" is for the device to auto detect if it has Dolby/DTS audio decoding by the AV receiver and/or TV, "Always" is for TVs without Dolby/DTS decoders built-in so you can get 5.1 audio by forcing the device to convert on-the-fly Dolby Digital Plus streams from Netflix for example, and "Never" is if you want to downmix 5.1 audio into stereo.

It doesn't work on Netflix though, when I select "Always" and then I select any 5.1 stream it doesn't output audio from any of the audio connections, the same is for Play Movies and TV.