Ubuntu – How to play Dolby TrueHD 7.1 ATMOS files

codecs

I have a video file with the audio codec "Dolby TrueHD 7.1 ATMOS" but the audio won't come out at all. I've tried vlc, avplay and a bunch of other players. I even updated vlc to 2.2 and libav-tools to 11

How do I play such a file? Preferably in VLC!!!

You can get a sample file from here. Make sure you download a file with "Dolby TrueHD 7.1 ATMOS" audio. The "Conductor " file is 40MB

Best Answer

VLC

The current stable release of VLC (2.2.4) does not support Dolby Atmos 7.1 sound.

The current nightly build of version 3 does support Dolby Atmos. The fix was committed on February 2nd, 2017. There is a closed ticket on this issue.

mplayer

mplayer supports Dolby Atmos TrueHD 7.1 as of sometime before 2017.

I have not been able to find exactly when this was fixed in mplayer. It seems it was fixed in ffmpeg, which mplayer uses, back in 2015.

See http://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/3960 for more history.

Kodi

Kodi uses mplayer for video playback and therefore will support TrueHD audio as long as the underlying mplayer version does.

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