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Now I don't have an Atmos-capable receiver, but I believe that if you had one hooked up to a PC via HDMI and were playing an Atmos game (like Battlefield V and Battelfront 2) and if you were to plug in headphones into the headphone jack on the receiver, the receiver would then apply an Atmos (or possibly other user-chosen, depending on receiver model) HRTF to the decoded Atmos stream in the receiver in order to create a virtual surround sound over headphone experience that includes elevation (and could likely also apply an HRTF in the receiver to any 5.1 or 7.1 stream coming over HDMI, similar to what Dolby Atmos software pack is supposed to do in Windows 10), though of course those 5.1 and 7.1 streams wouldn't contain elevation. I know of no way to get an encoded Atmos stream from HDMI into Waves NX headphones, but it would be cool if you could, because then you could have head tracking positional audio with elevation! Right now, I have to choose - do I want Overwatch with Atmos for headphones and get elevation, or do I choose to loose elevation and gain head tracking by switching to 7.1 (non-headphone) output in Overwatch and using Waves NX built in to the Spearhead VRX? I have chosen to give up on elevation because I've found positional head tracking more useful overall when playing. The only way to get sound output of speakers with elevation is via HDMI with an encoded Atmos audio stream from games that specifically support it. So PC games that output at best 5.1 or 7.1 can't output sound with elevation to speakers. 5.1 and 7.1 audio on PC is audio all on the same plane (flat), there are no elevation speakers. Downside is that this will not work properly with Waves NX headphones that do head tracking and positional audio themselves, such as the 1More Spearhead VRX (which I have) or Audeze Mobius, since those require a 5.1 or 7.1 multichannel output to do positional audio (and do that by presenting themselves as USB multichannel sound devices to the host computer). Upside is that this works with most any headphones. There's no Atmos-encoded digital stream or anything like that coming out of the game. The way it works is that the game does object-based (3D positional, including elevation) audio in the game engine and has a Dolby Atmos HRTF integrated such that it can create a sphere of sound for headphones and output that over two channel headphone output. The Dolby Atmos in Overwatch is internal to the game and only work properly with 2.0 (stereo) headphone outputs. So I play a lot of Overwatch, and can speak to that.

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How can you confirm that the Atmos information is actually being decoded, in a game or a movie audio?

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Hopefully someone can figure out how to use the built-in decoder with other applications, even if it's limited to E-AC3.Д®-AC3 tracks are mostly used with streaming services rather than Blu-ray discs though. You would have to use the built-in 'Films & TV' app. It cannot decode TrueHD+Atmos, and there's no way to get it working with Media Center even for content which uses E-AC3.

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Windows 10 has a built-in decoder for Atmos content that works with DAfH, but it can only decode Atmos inside an E-AC3 track.

Media Center's TrueHD decoding does not pass through Atmos data.

Atmos via Media Center only works when bitstreaming to an HDMI device, and since MC does not identify Atmos tracks you have to bitstream all TrueHD tracks.

My understanding of the situation now is that: Maybe I have outdated information, but from what knew the Win10 Atmos decoder had very limited functionality: Just because the settings in the game change from 2.0 does not mean it's decoding the Atmos information.

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