Encode 5.1 for apple tv

what are the settings to encode 5.1 for apple tv. I tried both quicktime and compressor.

Alley_Cat wrote:
You're correct it can pass them through, but it doesn't officially support them.
AC, your statement seems contradictory.
The Apple TV does indeed support correctly encoded DD or DTS files. Whether that support is "official" or not is not all that important, in my opinion. It still works if you have a correctly encoded file.
You can download one of the files from this web site http://www.diatonis.com/downloadsdtsac3.html sync it to your Apple TV and if you have a DD or DTS capable A/V receiver it will play correctly. Otherwise you'll just get static.
The problem is that QuickTime does not currently support DD/DTS encoding for audio in video. Once QT supports those audio encoding formats then Apple TV will play them.
Message was edited by: Michael Allbritton -- Fixed a typo.

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I think the "Export to Apple TV" in QTP-7 still encodes to 1280x720 doesn't it?
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Thomas A. wrote:
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