New Apple TV 4K

[Scott-M]

There is currently no process to convert TrueHD Atmos to EAC-3 Atmos on the fly. Dolby has a tool to do this conversion offline, but it is very expensive.
https://developer.dolby.com/forms/dolby-atmos-conversion-tool/

Currently, your only option would be to use the tool from Dolby and prep your media beforehand.

@thecodingart

I also jumped in here to see if there were any benefits to using Infuse over the Plex client with any “trickery” that may enable higher quality audio pass through to my receiver (specifically for Atmos and DTS-X).

See my answer in the forum post I linked to above

Nothing ever works as it should

Great question. Let me start with a quick high level overview: When you play a Blu-Ray with TrueHD or DTS-HD MA, the Blu-Ray player sends that format to your receiver, and the receiver decodes the audio before sending out to your speakers. LPCM is just another Lossless (HD) audio source that can be directly streamed to your receiver without decoding. Unless your TV has eARC (which is still very new), it will only be able to pass 5.1 lossy audio down to your receiver. The Apple TV supports up…