Can iTunes play 5.1 audio on a Mac (not AppleTV)?

My Macbook, like many other Macs, has a digital audio port that doubles as a stereo mini-jack for headphones. I'm interested in importing videos into iTunes with 5.1 sound and playing them with iTunes, with the audio going out the mini-jack to a toslink adapter to my surround-decoding receiver. Can iTunes on a Macbook import and playback 5.1 surround content or will it get converted to stereo in the import?

That may work for the dual disc formats. Although I question the point of a video iPod that won't import video. A CD is copywritten material and it will import.
So, for an album that is only in the DVD format like BNL "Are Me Deluxe Edition" there is no way to get it into iTunes and eventually my iPod. iTunes even sells the album in a standard format. Are you saying that I need to buy it a second time for the iPod/iTunes?

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