Re: In search of sound card with 5.1 Optical SPDIF output for DVD movies
- From: "jg" <juangarcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Mar 2007 22:13:36 -0800
To answer your question, yes my receiver will decode both Dolby
Digital Pro Logic II and DTS. I also have it hooked up to an external
DVD player via Coax SPDIF and it reproduces 5.1 sound beautifully. So
I am sure it will do the same if I can feed it digital sound from the
PC. I'm just concerned that Turtle Beach will not properly output all
5.1 channels in digital format.
On Mar 9, 4:39 pm, Ben <bencompan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi jg,
even though the product page says: "Optical S/PDIF output for playback
of pure digital audio at resolutions of up to 24 Bits at 48KHz sampling
rate, allowing for passthrough of Dolby® Digital and DTS® multichannel
DVD sound to external A/V receivers.", the Riviera manual says the SPDIF
output can only be used in 2-channel mode. The SPDIF protocol itself is
only 2-channel, but by using the AC3 codec this can be converted to 5 or
maybe even more channels. I think the Riviera doesn't support the AC3 codec.
The Montego DDL ($60) can output multi-channel audio through the
SPDIF-output, in the Dolby Digital Live encoding, so it depends on your
receiver: if it can decode this DDL encoded sound (I never heard of it
before and I doubt it is widely implemented, but I'm not too
knowledgeable about these things), you're good.
By the way, if you have a stereo system, will it decode multi-channel
SPDIF anyway? The Riviera will do if you only have a stereo receiver to
produce the sound, but with regards to future receiver upgrades, you
might want to look into sound cards capable of outputting multi-channel
sound over SPDIF.
Good luck!
Ben
jg wrote:
I have a PC hoooked up to a nice LCD 37" monitor that I use to watch
movies using PowerDVD. For sound I use the TV's built in speakers and
use the headphone output from the PC. Sound is horrible. My current
stereo system will accept both coax and optical SPDIF. (I don't want
to user coax though.)
So what I am looking for is a soundcardthat will output digital 5.1
sound for my receiver to decode. I am hoping to keep the price below
$50 if at all possible. I was about to purchase Turtle Beach Riviera
as it has optical SPDIF out and is fairly inexpensive but I read some
reviews that state that it will only output stereo sound via optical
SPDIF (this makes no sense to me because the way I see it, it should
be pretty easy to lift the digital audio from DVD and send out the
SPDIF output w/o any processing.)
I read some good reviews regarding the Terratec SoundSystem SiXPack
5.1. However, I have not found thiscardfor sale anywhere.
Anybody know of any sound cards with optical SPDIF output that will
not break the bank and will work with PowerDVD. (I am also open to
the idea of switching to Win DVD if that is what it takes.)
jg
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