Hi, i've literaly been working my ass off in finding how to set up my 5.1 surround sound by i havent been able to.. There are NO youtube or google tutorials as to how to do this setup.
What im trying to do is use my 5.1 speakers to play movies with surround sound. I have set up everything correctly so there is no problem with the wiring. The problem is i can play games, such as cod4, with surround sound but when it comes to movies it only uses 2.1 when on the windows control panel it says 5.1. Ive tryed every single way including updating the drivers and setting up room correlation but that doesnt help at all. The only way i can use my 5.1 efficiently is when i play games. When i do play music only the front speakers actually work. When i go right up to the back speakers they outpud some muffled sound as if they are only supposed to keep the enviroment and the background music going, but thats another story.
So, can someone help me in setting up this 5.1 system so i can watch movies with surround sound. I have downloaded several things, although i dont know why, they aparantly supposed to fix it. Nothing works. Ive downloaded VLC player and i use that to play the movies, downloaded and installed K-lite codec pack, installed plugins for media player, installed AC3Filter but none work and fix the problem.
note: i dont think AC3Filter is working because it says this message:
Input format: Unknown - 0
User format: PCM Float 3/2.1 (5.1) 0
Output format: Unknown - 0
and i dont think it works at all because it doesnt count up the frames when i start playing music. As far as ive read you have to encode and decode movies but i have no idea how to do that.. And, is it possible to kinda change the sound on normal movies that dont have surround sound and make time do have it.?>?..
thanks a lot for everyone that helps me sort this problem out, been waiting a loooooong time..