Dolby Atmos Lover (Customer) asked a question.
Is Microsoft's "Movie and TV" the only app that can decode Atmos metadata?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/ei1qve/psa_movies_and_tv_app_is_the_only_media_player/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
This post is truly shocking. It was stated that only the "Movie and TV" media player could decode Atmos metadata. I've tried Potplayer, VLC, MPC-HC, and Kodi players to verify the authenticity of this, but none of them reproduce the atmos sound. They all strip the atmos metadata and play back with only 5.1 or 7.1 cores. Only Movie and TV could clearly express the sound corresponding to the bad channel and the object channel. The problem is that Movie and TV does not support decoding of the TrueHD codec. So there is no way to watch TrueHD bitstream content containing Dolby Atmos :(
https://download.dolby.com/us/en/test-tones/dolby-test-tones_9_1_6.mp4
This post is truly shocking. It was stated that only the "Movie and TV" media player could decode Atmos metadata. I've tried Potplayer, VLC, MPC-HC, and Kodi players to verify the authenticity of this, but none of them reproduce the atmos sound. They all strip the atmos metadata and play back with only 5.1 or 7.1 cores. Only Movie and TV could clearly express the sound corresponding to the bad channel and the object channel. The problem is that Movie and TV does not support decoding of the TrueHD codec. So there is no way to watch TrueHD bitstream content containing Dolby Atmos :(
https://download.dolby.com/us/en/test-tones/dolby-test-tones_9_1_6.mp4
TrueHD is dedicated for BluRay use case, and Movie and TV if it is dedicated for file base or streaming playback which does not include BlueRay, so Dolby TrueHD decoder might be not integrated there.