Macbook Digital Sound Out

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The Macbook specs state that it has a digital out via minijack. I have a set of Logitech Z5500d speakers which have an optical toslink in, can I simply use this sort of cable (minijack to toslink) to take full advantage of the optical sound connection or will I have to purchase a seperate external usb soundcard with toslink out?

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I've used my macbook with such a minijack>toslink adapter fine. I'm a mac noob, and while looking through all the options in systems preferences, couldn't find a way to see or activate 5.1 output, if the machine even supports it. Anyone have any clues?
 
I am using a belkin cable with toslink adaptor (think its on the apple store) and that works fine but the one pictured would do the job. Just make sure it has the right connection type on each end.
 
I use the exact cable shown in the OP's picture. It's obviously a mini-TOSLink to TOSLink - works perfectly. :)
 
I found that you actually have to pick the embedded audio output for VLC to output DD or DTS, i thought it would have done it automatically.
Sometimes the option disappears from VLC though :s
 
One problem I notice when using digital over analogue though is that I get a lot of noise distortion on the high ranges. Maybe this is because of badly encoding videos, but having said that, analogue is fine, so I dunno! :confused: :p
 
cokebottles said:
I've used my macbook with such a minijack>toslink adapter fine. I'm a mac noob, and while looking through all the options in systems preferences, couldn't find a way to see or activate 5.1 output, if the machine even supports it. Anyone have any clues?
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In the Utilities folder (in Applications) there's a MIDI settings thing which i'm sure has an option for 5.1 sound in it. Currently on my Windows desktop so I can't go and check but maybe give that a try?
 
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