Dolby Atmos audio is choppy

I have noticed some .m2ts files with TrueHD audio stream, the audio is very choppy, cuts in and out.

Here is a sample file http://stfcc.org/misc/dolby_atmos_truehd_sample.m2ts

Note this is from the ffmpeg bug report fixed a year ago. http://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/3960

I have tried with VLC 2.2.1 and the nightly version 2.2.2. Thanks.

assigned to @jbk

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I've met this problem on a lot of recently released Blu-ray discs, which are all using TrueHD audio. The latest 3.0.0-git-20151115-0402 nightly build still has this problem. It would be great if this can be fixed because it seems to me that the TrueHD audio is becoming a trend on newly released discs, and VLC is totally broken for them.

This indeed is an issue. Up to now, VLC was the swiss army knife when it came to media files. The way it's now, there's need for supplementary players.

Besides from this, I can't emphasize enough how this project has changed the way I consume digital media. Far the best in usability, versatility and community care. Thanks a lot, jb and all the others.

changed title from TrueHD audio is choppy to Dolby Atmos audio is choppy

I agree with all the above.

To add a little context to the scenario, when running Media-info agains a file with a DTS-HD MA track the Format profile shows as MA / Core. Not sure how the logic works, but on my system VLC outputs the "Core" track since my receiver only supports lossy DTS.

With the sample track listed in the description (dolby_atmos_truehd_sample.m2ts) that contains a single track for Atmos / TrueHD / AC-3 and shows the same for it's Format Profile, VLC seems to outputting the ATMOS or it's switching to the secondary audio of the TRUEHD. Neither of which my receiver can play. It needs to be able to switch to the AC-3 track, either by internal logic or an option in the configuration.

Not sure how priorities work in regards to bugs/features such as this but the only workaround for this scenario is to use another player for these files.

We're working on this point those days, to get passthrough for DTS-MA and fix atmos.

fixed by 947362db184089cb45a015b4e5cada10a58b1c89

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closed

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mentioned in issue #15599 (closed)