In conclusion, The Meg is nothing more of a shallow plot strung together with cool shark action scenes and unnecessary, poorly written characters. The final positive of the film was it's consistent pacing there were small amounts of the extended expedition, which ultimatly hurt the film's character development, and plenty of intense shark action. The sound design was great, as it really brought the extinct titanic meg to life. From a technical standpoint, The Meg (2018) was a fest for the eyes the CGI and special effects were very crisp and believable, except for a shot near the end of the film involving the meg itself and Statum. It was plainly obvious certain characters were written for the sole purpose of having an action scene transpire by making costly decisions or for plot convenience. Li Bingbing's addition was an obvious attempt to appeal to the foreign audience, and the rest of the supporting cast gave forgettable performances. And besides Shuya Sophia Cai's adorable Meiying, this is where the praise for performances end. Statham was a charismatic badass and stole every scene in which he was physically present, and without him, the film would have failed. Statham carried the film from the opening scene, all the way through until the end credits. Not all is grim luckily, the film's lead, Jason Statham, delivered a very pleasant performance. The film's lack of character development, along with less than stellar performances by the majority of the cast, ultimately hindered my ability to feel any remorse or sympathy for certain characters, nor did I develop any emotional connection with characters. So please Firecore - please do something about audio passthrough.While this film is very enjoyable unfortunately, The Meg (2018) is a throwaway summer blockbuster and mediocre at best. and there is also a reason why certain AV systems get certificates like THX. There is a reason for standard sound encoding formats like DTS, Dolby Digital etc. If there are any doubts about that do the test by playing a movie with DD or DTS using passthrough via VLC and check against the software decoded version. The “full surround experience” you ONLY get with the original passthrough output. You just don’t get the same story as it suppose to be) (That’s like reading a book, then writing your own version of it by memorising it and handing it over to another person who needs to read it out loud to an audience. Whoever wants to tell you a software decoding would be an equal solution to the original encoded soundtrack passed-through to a AV Receiver compatible with the original encoded file format has obviously no idea of what he’s talking. No clunky interpretation to PCM output by a software solution to send it to an AV Receiver which tries to do its own interpretation of that clunky mix again. The whole point of the encoded sound format (beside saving filesize) is to play the soundtrack as it’s supposed to sound like by letting a dedicated AV Receiver decode it. VLC is able to do this for far more than a decade now, which proves that digital passthrough sound output on a Mac is possible! Simple encoded passthrough output is still not working with infuse for MacOS which is pretty disappointing considering the time since the software is released. I am just waiting to get hold of a Mac Mini and put these various permutations to test. Would DV even work in this situation with the mp4 files? mkv files with Atmos audio, some mp4’s with DV and Atmos or BluRay BDMV folders with DV and Atmos. I recall that this was possible in the early days with HD video and DTS or DD, but unsure about the current state of affairs. If it works, then I am looking at hooking up an Intel Mac Mini running latest macOS to a Denon receiver,using HDMI, and the receiver then decoding the audio correctly and feeding an LG Oled for the video. Ideally, the mac should hand the audio bitstream to the AV receiver which would do the decoding into all the available formats, inc. So the question is: has anyone tried doing an audio pass through from the mac? I could see that James had responded “TBD” in November, but no updates since and that topic was closed. There was a question raised last year about audio pass through for the macOS version of Infuse whilst still in beta.
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