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Dolby Digital 5.1 Michael Earls 07-10-2005
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Posted by Michael Earls on July 10, 2005, 8:24 am
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 Is it possible to get Dolby Digital 5.1 SPDIF output from Media Center? I
recently had a TurtleBeach sound card that had an optical out port, but I
could never get it to pass through the DVD Dolby Surround. I only got
stereo sound. It was either the Sound card or the DVD decoder, but something
was downgrading the 5.1 to 2 channel stereo.

I downloaded the 60 day trial of the nVidia DVD decoder, and on the
configuration screen, it tells me that it will downgrade the signal.

Is there a DVD Decoder/Sound Card combination that I can use to receive
Dolby Digital 5.1 via optical out? My tuner does not have COAX, only
optical.

Thanks,

Michael Earls
The Cerebral Kitchen
http://www.cerkit.com/





Posted by Stu on July 10, 2005, 9:01 am
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 Yes it is possible - and it is a settign (usually) in your decoder.

For example, I have one box with the nvidia decoder and a SB Audigy 2 - the
only setting I touched was in the Decoder properties while playing a DVD.

Stu


> Is it possible to get Dolby Digital 5.1 SPDIF output from Media Center? I
> recently had a TurtleBeach sound card that had an optical out port, but I
> could never get it to pass through the DVD Dolby Surround. I only got
> stereo sound. It was either the Sound card or the DVD decoder, but
> something was downgrading the 5.1 to 2 channel stereo.
>
> I downloaded the 60 day trial of the nVidia DVD decoder, and on the
> configuration screen, it tells me that it will downgrade the signal.
>
> Is there a DVD Decoder/Sound Card combination that I can use to receive
> Dolby Digital 5.1 via optical out? My tuner does not have COAX, only
> optical.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Earls
> The Cerebral Kitchen
> http://www.cerkit.com/
>
>
>




Posted by Robert Schlabbach on July 10, 2005, 10:55 pm
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> I downloaded the 60 day trial of the nVidia DVD decoder, and on the
> configuration screen, it tells me that it will downgrade the signal.

You didn't read it right. It clearly says:

| S/PDIF pass through for external decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS
| (compatible hardware required)

Regards,«
--
Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
Berlin, Germany




Posted by Michael Earls on July 11, 2005, 7:35 pm
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Ok, I finally got this working, thanks to the great help from Robert, Stu,
and Barb.

Here are the details...

http://www.cerkit.com/cerkitBlog/Finally+Dolby+Digital+51+Surround+Sound+On+Media+Center.aspx

Thanks again to all who assisted!
--
Michael Earls
The Cerebral Kitchen
http://www.cerkit.com/


> Is it possible to get Dolby Digital 5.1 SPDIF output from Media Center? I
> recently had a TurtleBeach sound card that had an optical out port, but I
> could never get it to pass through the DVD Dolby Surround. I only got
> stereo sound. It was either the Sound card or the DVD decoder, but
> something was downgrading the 5.1 to 2 channel stereo.
>
> I downloaded the 60 day trial of the nVidia DVD decoder, and on the
> configuration screen, it tells me that it will downgrade the signal.
>
> Is there a DVD Decoder/Sound Card combination that I can use to receive
> Dolby Digital 5.1 via optical out? My tuner does not have COAX, only
> optical.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Earls
> The Cerebral Kitchen
> http://www.cerkit.com/
>
>
>




Posted by Tom on July 15, 2005, 1:23 am
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Check out the new Turtle B -Montego DDL. It doesnt decode dts or DD. It
passes it through to the A/V receiver to do that via optical. I like it. Set
5.1 in CPanel-sound too.

"Michael Earls" wrote:

> Is it possible to get Dolby Digital 5.1 SPDIF output from Media Center? I
> recently had a TurtleBeach sound card that had an optical out port, but I
> could never get it to pass through the DVD Dolby Surround. I only got
> stereo sound. It was either the Sound card or the DVD decoder, but something
> was downgrading the 5.1 to 2 channel stereo.
>
> I downloaded the 60 day trial of the nVidia DVD decoder, and on the
> configuration screen, it tells me that it will downgrade the signal.
>
> Is there a DVD Decoder/Sound Card combination that I can use to receive
> Dolby Digital 5.1 via optical out? My tuner does not have COAX, only
> optical.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Earls
> The Cerebral Kitchen
> http://www.cerkit.com/
>
>
>
>


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