Logitech Z-5500==DigitalCoax==X-Fi XtremeMusic = "NO DIGITAL DATA" ?

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Hi guy's ,
first of all i want to apologize on my weak English and grammar , English is not my native tongue so sorry if i giving
you guys hard time.

I"m now in the middle of my quest all over the internet to sake solution for my problem...
i hope u guy's can finally help me to finish my quest

ok, cut the tale/crap and down to business

i recently purchase my new speaker system the Logitech Z-5500 with the support of X-Fi XtremeMusic and in order 2 get those 2 busters work best
i bought a Digital Coax cable in order 2 connect them Digital
but after that i connect them together the damn thing didn't work and all i
get is "NO DIGITAL DATA" in the SoundTouch

i tried 2 change the settings in the x-fi drivers 2 "Digital I/O" and other read me
but nothing work
i already looked up in the creative & Logitech websites but didnt find solution

P.S when they connect analog - it's work well , but i paid a lot of money for this
system and i dont want 2 compromise on the quality that i paid for




PLZ HELP ME !!! I"M DESPERATE :'(


10x for any help !
 
according to my understanding from the info about them , yes . but i didn't try it yet

guy's plz help me...i already had a very bad day. for example: my cell phone fell down to my **bleep** toilette and drown
 
oh sorry, didn't know you could do that :blush:

just unpacked mine, the sub is collosal!

thats a pound coin and my 6230i on it!

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Coax or Optical toslink should not matter.

In Entertainment Mode you need to select Main Display, then click the Dolby Digital icon, and under Dolby Digital Bitstream Out click On (External Decoder).
This means that if you have a 5.1 encoded track it will use the Logitech decoder instead on the X-Fi decoder, and on the logitech pod you will see the Dolby Digital effect come out.

But you must have a 5.1 encoded track.

So :

1. Your source has to be 5.1 encoded track....this is only DVD's mainly, so forget about using your external decoder for dolby digital with pc games. That is why just normal 5.1 speakers without a decoder and a decent 5.1 sound card makes more sense.

2. Your software has to be aware of the 5.1 source so it can pass it to the decoder. So getting back to DVD's, with something like WinDVD you will need to select Digital (S/PDIF) out to External Processor instead of the default Analog Sound Card in the Setup \ Audio section.

Hope this helps. Unfortunately very few pc games have a 5.1 encoded track, unlike the Xbox or Xbox 360 so an exernal decoder on your logitech does very little for you, unless you watch a lot of dvd's like me or use it with an Xbox 360. Not Creatives fault at all.

Some people of course don't accept this and buy something like the HDA Digityal Mystique which does on the fly 7.1 encoding so will give you that digital track for your external decoder on your logitech to work on. But there is no real point as the cpu overhead is immense and the Creative cards are so much more efficient in game anyway using the onboard decoder.
 
so what u saying is that if i dont have a Digital 5.1 encoded track
i cant use the digital cable ?

for example if i want 2 use the digital cable 2 ear stereo music in winamp
i can only use the analog cable ?
 
You can still use the digital cable but it will come out in stereo only which is fine for music I guess.

But if you want to get the Logitech decoder to do 5.1 stuff, the source has to be encoded in 5.1 to begin with, mainly DVD's.
 
bledd. said:
oh sorry, didn't know you could do that :blush:

just unpacked mine, the sub is collosal!

thats a pound coin and my 6230i on it!

z5500.jpg
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that's tiny:p

Some people of course don't accept this and buy something like the HDA Digityal Mystique which does on the fly 7.1 encoding so will give you that digital track for your external decoder on your logitech to work on. But there is no real point as the cpu overhead is immense and the Creative cards are so much more efficient in game anyway using the onboard decoder.
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<cough>complete rubbish<cough>

1) it's 5.1 encoding
2) it's done at hardware level. ie there is no cpu overhead.
 
i never said it doesnt use the cpu. What im saying is the encoding process doesnt use the cpu, as in it makes no difference wether encoding is on or off. take it from somebody who knows a thing or two about soundcards, and owns said x-mystique:rolleyes:
 
So if the card is encoding something into 5.1 to pass it to your amp via the optical cable, there is no increase in cpu usage ? Fair enough if that's true.

Just wondering can you encode anything with this card....for example with creative cards you use the onboard decoder to pass the analog signal to your sound card.....so with the mystique can you in fact encode the track from the game into 5.1 then pass it to your amp for decoding ?
 
that's right its completely hardware driven.

Just wondering can you encode anything with this card....for example with creative cards you use the onboard decoder to pass the analog signal to your sound card.....so with the mystique can you in fact encode the track from the game into 5.1 then pass it to your amp for decoding ?
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that's it, yeah. it'll encode anything into Dolby digital. It does have a limitation in that it can't encode from an external source, which is a bit of an oversight, but otherwise yeah. all games are glorious 5.1. For its gaming shortfalls (only 5.1 over optical, and only supports upto eax2.0) DDlive encoding makes up for all of that.

My yamaha AV amp has always been more at home with Dolby Digital than 6.1 direct input:)
 
Cool....so when playing Quake 4 with this card - if the decoder on your amp is up to the job - would the quality of the sound would be noticeably superior then using a X-Fi which would do the decoding ?
 
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