WoW! Netflix audio is super immersive!

[StealthP3D]

You need to turn the sound effects to "High" in the audio menu to get the 3D sound.

 

[astrowunder]

You need to turn the sound effects to "High" in the audio menu to get the 3D sound.

That just creates a synthesized effect- it's not the original Dolby surround with discrete channels, sadly.

 

[astrowunder]

Hopefully it will get added, but I imagine it's a super low priority (as it should be)

 

[TEG]

Not even sure they have an audio path to support discrete channel playback.

It is conceivable that some internal section of the audio is just 2 channel before the surround processor makes simulated surround sound out of it.

 

[astrowunder]

Not even sure they have an audio path to support discrete channel playback.

It is conceivable that some internal section of the audio is just 2 channel before the surround processor makes simulated surround sound out of it.

Farts can be targeted- surely they have discrete channels

 

[TEG]

Farts can be targeted- surely they have discrete channels

Good point! But is there a 5.1 subwoofer fart?

 

[astrowunder]

Good point! But is there a 5.1 subwoofer fart?

I could live with 5.0 if I had to. Seems like if they went to the trouble of having separate channels for front/rear they would have one for the sub too... just speculating.

 

[StealthP3D]

That just creates a synthesized effect- it's not the original Dolby surround with discrete channels, sadly.

I'm normally the first one who is bothered by digital audio trickery but I thought the Netflix movies sounded very natural, much like in a movie theater. If it matters I was listening mostly over LTE cellular.

 

[TEG]

Farts can be targeted- surely they have discrete channels

Or other thought - maybe they just have some pan/fade controls and send all the audio to one part of the car at a time?

 

[DopeGhoti]

Or other thought - maybe they just have some pan/fade controls and send all the audio to one part of the car at a time?

Easily testable by configuring fart-on-demand, starting up some music, and triggering some emissions tests.

 

[dejavood0o]

I have done experiments with 5.1 FLACs... I tried AC3, DTS, etc... So far, I don't seem able to get rear channel playback. I am not sure if the Netflix player is able to do something that the USB media player cannot. Hopefully if the system is true multi-channel they can make the USB flash decoder do real surround sound too. So far, I am thinking it may just be taking stereo and creating a simulated surround sound out of it.

Even if this is just simulated surround, surely they would still have discrete analog outputs to each speaker, right? I assume so and so I assume there's still hope. I submitted a feature request to support multichannel FLAC earlier this month, fingers crossed! Hopefully the possible demand for true discrete surround in Netflix brings multichannel FLAC support with it as a low-effort item for the developers.

 

[eladts]

Even if the car's audio supports discrete surround, the current implementation of the Netflix player (and other players in the Tesla Theater) is basically just a web browser in full-screen mode. Netflix does not support surround sound using HTML5 on any platform.

 

[BipeFlyer]

This 5.1 test app on the iPhone works fine on my home Apple TV setup alternating thru left, right, and center as well as left and right rear and subwoofer. In my Premium interior Model 3 the rear channels play on the front speakers and there is silence when the subwoofer channel is output. ‎Surround Speaker Check

 

[TEG]

^^^ Yeah, I was getting similar symptoms from 5.1 flac playback.

 

[eli_]

Well they’d have to pay the licensing fees to Dolby to ship a Dolby Digital decoder for Netflix and I think they are too stingy for that.

 

[DopeGhoti]

Only if they want to implement Dolby Surround Sound or a similar protected algorithm.

 

[WilliamG]

Checked again with the .11 update, watching some Stranger Things. It drops frames continually. Also, soccer is unwatchable on YouTube etc. For example try watching this in the car:

It’s flickering the whole time. So weird.

Can’t watch ANY soccer games in the car without flickering.

*edit*

Seems to be an issue with green in the YouTube app. American football is the same issue. Just search for any game and try and watch.

No such issue in the Netflix app watching soccer clips etc. so weird!

*edit*

Yep it’s an issue with green. Anyone else confirm this flickers?

Just to bump this and say the flickering issue is still there as of 2020.20.5 update.