I don't want surround sound. But I'd like to be able to hear all of the channels (5.1, 7.1, etc) via two stereo speakers and a small sub.
The TV is a 40" Samsung, many years old, friend gave it to me and I repaired it, now the wife is in love with it.
The Roku is set to "Stereo" and "HDMI Stereo (PCM)"
I copied our DVD and Bluray collection over to my media server so my wife can watch them via Plex on her ipad. The issue is, several of the Blurays *only* have surround tracks, and when watching them on the Roku, yep, we don't get the center and surround channels. So we are missing out on a lot of audio, or the audio is very very quiet. The ipad plays everything fine, and Plex is essentially set up the same on both devices, as far as playback and audio are concerned. When using the TV's built-in speakers, the effect is the same as when piping the audio out via RCA to our 2.1 setup -- missing audio.
I was wondering if there was an external adapter I would have to use to encode (decode?) surround audio tracks into stereo.
Thanks.