Hi, With respect to the first of your questions. Are you playing the videos from your Mac and channelling the audio to a surround sound system? If so, to maintain the 5.1 or 7.1 signal, you need to use either a Mini to Display port to HDMI adaptor, or straight HDMI out depending on your Mac. When using these connections instead of the optical out, the surround sound signal is maintained. Alternatively, many surround sound receivers will automatically do the conversion internally from stereo to surround sound so that you still get the surround sound sound even with stereo input.
Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 30, 2019, at 06:01, Matt Turner <meturner2...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi folks. First of all,. I have some dvd movies, that I’ve ripped in Flac. I’ve ripped them in Flac, so I could keep the 5.1 channel surround sound format audio. I’ve tryed converting them to m4a, and aiff, but iTunes doesn’t seem to like to play audio files with 5.1 channels. Anyone have any ideas, how to get iTunes to play those 5.1 channel files? 1 more thing. So I’m triing to create a smart playlist, of podcast. If the podcast has been unplayed, I want to have it show up in the list. I can’t seem to get that to work either. Anyway, thanks. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.