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Various Sonos tips and tricks for power-users.
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Sonos Tips & Tricks

Various Sonos tips and tricks for power-users.

Sonos surround sound on Windows 10

For some reason NVIDIA and AMD aren't willing to support Dolby Digital 5.1 surround on Windows *. However, there are several workarounds for that. The result is the ability to watch movies or play games on Windows 10 with Sonos surround sound.

* Most likely due to royalties.

Transcode audio in videos to Dolby Digital 5.1

Sonos only supports AC3 encoded audio streams in video files (Dolby Digital 5.1). Some televisions are able to transcode on-the-fly. For the TVs that do not support it: It's quite easy to transcode audio streams in MKV files to AC3. This means that it's possible to transcode DTS and Dolby Digital Plus to Dolby Digital 5.1.