I am really happy that Infuse can play TrueHD streams through to my AVR. Unfortunately, due to the Apple TV design, the sound is output as PCM. According to the FAQ, there is no difference in the quality, since the PCM signal is “unpacked”.
Does anyone know whether Infuse uses this information to send a Stereo signal? Can we force Infuse to output a stereo signal? If this is done on the Apple TV settings, then it’ll probably be downmixed on a platform level.
Yes, Infuse 7 will utilize the metadata elements embedded in audio tracks when passing audio from the app to the Apple TV hardware.
However, there are cases where the Apple TV can modify this. For example, if you have the Apple TV set to force Dolby 5.1 output, Infuse will still send send the full multi-channel output (EG 7.1) but the Apple TV will re-encode this on the fly to Dolby 5.1, which may change how things sound. Apple does not share the parameters they use when re-encoding to 5.1.
Nice. I’ll give it a go. I don’t think my avr has a way to display the bitrate of audio. Does infuse have an overlay that shows the current bitrate/resolution of the current video?
Infuse will always play things in the full native/original format, so we’ve not built an overlay to display the current quality. These overlays are mostly useful for streaming services where quality can vary depending on network conditions and other factors.