Why is 5.1 audio not working on my Mac mini M1

Hello, I want to ask if anyone has experience with not playing 5.1 audio from Netflix, Max, Amazon Prime on a Mac Mini M1. Movies played directly through the player have no problem with 5.1 sound

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Mac mini, macOS 15.0

Posted on Nov 1, 2024 01:32 AM

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Nov 2, 2024 06:15 AM in response to Morp6697

Viewing those services via web browser due to DRM (Digital Rights management) get limited feature sets since a web browser has no access to the hardware to determine if there is, for the lack of a better term, a legal verification video channel (which includes audio).

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