DTS Connect / Dolby Digital live still a thing/needed?

[Gimpymoo]

Waay back when, I recall to get 5.1 working through digital connections required certain support from your soundcard/active speakers.

Is this still the case?

For example, if running HDMI from AMD GPU to AV receiver, do games work in 5.1 as in theory, no compression is needed, right?

Thanks

 

[Gimpymoo]

Why not?

If I understand correctly, extracting HDMI audio on a PC and using HDMI video too is not a straightforward process, needs extra equipment.

 

[Gimpymoo]

but sound is 2.0, as windows sees the tv as a 2 speaker system. so just sends lcpm 2.0 to it.

Something odd though as my much more basic LG is recognised as an 8 channel audio device. This is through AMD though.

When it does get messy is when you want to run say 21:9 through your AV setup.

PC Gaming/Home Theatre are two different worlds and still have many obstacles to overcome but I think are very niché and not on the manufacturers radar.

Same problems will happen with the new gen consoles too but hopefully will become more mainstream that people take note and push for a solution.

Do we have enough bandwidth to "bitstream" video for example so the AV amp could get the audio then pass the video data to the display?