DTS audio from PC S/PDIF output port to amp possible?

alx

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Hi,was wondering if you could help.

I'm considering using my old SB75G2 Pentium 4 Shuttle PC as an HTPC. This shuttle has 2 S/PDIF ports for digital audio input and output on the back.

Does this mean I could connect the optical output from the back of the pc to an amp (that decodes DTS/Dolby Digital) and play video which has 5.1 DTS? (i.e. the pc would just pass through the DTS/DD audio to the amp to decode)

Is this hard to setup on the pc?
 
Should be easy, depending on sound device. Just make sure both playback software and sound device are set to pass through SPDIF.
 
Uriel said:
Should be easy, depending on sound device. Just make sure both playback software and sound device are set to pass through SPDIF.
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Cool thanks.

I've been reading a bit up on it and apparently the Shuttle I have sometimes has problems with the sound cutting out over optical out (due to poor drivers), does anyone have any recommendations for a cheap, 1 slot pci sound card that has an optical out/SPDIF port?
 
Asus Xonar DG should be perfect.
The amp will be doing all the grunt work of decoding you wont need a super duper card.
That said its a Xonar so its probbly pretty darn good anyway.
 
Or, if you want all audio as DTS - the Xonar DS should do the job. It has DTS connect so can encode all audio from your PC as DTS, not just pass through from films etc.
 
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