Quick optical question

Cairnsey

Cairnsey

Cairnsey

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Hi,

I have an audigy1 PCI card with a digital socket. I've connected a '3.5mm to optical' cable and set windows to only output digitally. I may be wrong but, I was sure I should see a red light from the end of the optical connector? I would test it with my AV amp but it's too far away and my cable is small so I can't connect it. I want to know if this will work so I can buy a longer cable+adaptor so I can watch downloads in 5.1. Cheers
 
because my 5.1 home cinema speakers are connected to it and it would be a major hassle unplugging everything else. Am I barking up the wrong tree here?
 
The manual states that I need a 3.5mm mono jack to RCA cable. Thought the only cable which could be used for digital signals were optical and co-ax? Also it says to connect it to my SPDIF input on my amp, which I don't seem to have, only co-ax and optical for digital and RCA/S-video/component etc for analogue. Is it called somthing else?
 
So effectively my PC's sound card is decoding the signal and my receiver is just used as an amp?

Also, I don't think it's an optical cable I need as mentioned above. So, how can my amp seperate and amplify 6 channels through one analogue cable? It confuses me.
 
OK, I got my adaptor (3.5MM mono jack to RCA socket) and a long phono cable. My amp tells me its receiving PCM but when I try a AC3 audio file all I hear is noise and no DD light on my amp. Is this a software problem?
 
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