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Posted by Michael Brown on October 18, 2007, 1:36 pm
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You should be good with that setup. What you'll want to check is in Media
Center itself you tell it how many speakers you have and how your sound card
is connected, it's in the audio section of settings.
--
Mike Brown
http://thegreenbutton.com/blogs/mike/
> Mike,
> Thanks for the reply. The PC is attached to the receiver via digital coax
> (SPDIF). The receiver is a 5.1 receiver and I believe that the
> instructions
> on the forum detail letting the receiver decode the channels. Thus in the
> sound card configuration, I have it set for 6 speakers with SPDIF out as
> the
> sourcing for the audio to the receiver. I can check again once I get home
> to
> completely verify all of the specific sound card settings. One assumption
> that I am making. By using the SPDIF cable, I believe that I do not have
> to
> connect each of the outputs on the sound card speaker out correct? Would
> this work better if I ditched the digital cable and just connected each of
> the speaker outs on the sound card into the receivers inputs in the analog
> sense? That was probably going to be my next step if I was still unable
> to
> get this to work keeping the single digital coax cable.
>
> Thanks again for your post. Hopefully we can get this worked out :-)
>
> Best,
> Tom
>
>
> "Michael Brown" wrote:
>
>> How is the PC connected to the receiver? Are your audio settings in
>> media
>> center set for 5.1?
>>
>> --
>> Mike Brown
>> http://thegreenbutton.com/blogs/mike/
>>
>>
>> > Hello, I am using an HP HTPC with the built-in sound card on the MoBo.
>> > My
>> > signal chain for audio is as follows: wall-cable STB- PC-Onkyo
>> > Receiver-
>> > speakers.
>> > I am only getting sound out of my center channel speaker. Obviously, I
>> > would prefer hearing the TV in full surround but I just cannot get the
>> > system
>> > to output all 6 channels correctly. I have tried all of the forums for
>> > information on getting the speaker/sound card setup in MCE05 to no
>> > avail.
>> > Any additional help would be greatly appreciated.
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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