digital 5.1

Llews · 9 Apr 2008 at 22:58

hi, im looking for a sound card that does 5.1 over digital weather its optical or cable. as i have a suround setup but the sound card i have has 3 outputs for the speakers to get a surround output but i cant connect that many inputs to one chanel on my suround system

or do all digital out put only work in stereo?

Llews · 11 Apr 2008 at 22:10

anyone have anyinfo on this please?

Katoom · 11 Apr 2008 at 22:34

Hi, what sound card and amp do you have? (make/model)

Llews · 14 Apr 2008 at 05:37

atm im useing the on board sound on my Asus Crosshair under vista 64

my suround system is a JVC TH-L1 5.1

Katoom · 14 Apr 2008 at 06:43

Have you tried using the digital output from your m/b (one optical or one coaxial) straight to your amp? Your amp should decode it to 5.1.

AbsenceJam · 14 Apr 2008 at 10:02

Surely your mobo has digital output?

Llews · 14 Apr 2008 at 21:09

it does, but it only does stereo. and the configure buton is greyd out for it

cokecan · 14 Apr 2008 at 21:50

it will only do stereo if your using it for music etc (as pretty much all music is only encoded in stereo anyway). stick a DVD in and tell your DVD software to use SPDIF as the audio output and it will send over a Dolby Digital or DTS 5.1 soundtrack

if you want 5.1 in everything then you'll need a soundcard that has Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect encoding on it

Llews · 17 Apr 2008 at 00:08

strangly i never thought about trying a dvd, but thats probably because i ply my movies on my ps3, as soon as i put a movie on it went in to 5.1
before i was trying to get it to work in games (mostly cod4) but with no success