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Afternoon all,
Ive been trying to get my soundcard to output it's full multi-channels via SPDIF, but Ive just found that the Xonar card only outputs stereo :(
Do *any* reasonably priced PC soundcards offer this ?
I have an optical cable to my Marantz AV amp, which can easily handle up to DTS 7.1, but it\'s being wasted at the moment.
Nearly all Xonars do multi-channels over spdif, but like all spdif, there isn\'t the bandwidth for unencoded multi-channels > 2, so you have to use dolby etc. to compress and then uncompress at your receiver.
You need a Xonar model DS or better. Only the cheapest can\'t do DTS afaik.
edit: but what\'s your graphics card? That may have output for you as well.
Yeah thanks matey, Ive been researching and it looks like "dolby live" is what Im after....
A few Creative\'s do it and the DS as you rightly say...
Onboard gfx still, till I have more dosh.
You want DTS really, DDL is another standard, but inferior. Xonar DS(x) is about the cheapest way to get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by g8ina
Hi, I know this is an old thread, but I too need spdif for a new htpc build. Amp supports DTS and Dolby so just wondering, did that xonar sound card do the trick?Quote:
Originally Posted by g8ina