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<blockquote data-quote="yacob.naif" data-source="post: 2408767" data-attributes="member: 565696"><p>There's even cheap soundcards that have optical out.</p><p></p><p>You can't transfer computer surround sound via any type of spdif output, tho.</p><p></p><p>It will transfer DTS/DOLBY DIGITAL out if you're watching a DVD or a video file with AC3 audio if you have everything set-up correctly, but any sound generated by the pc itself will only be transferred as 2-channel stereo PCM stream.</p><p></p><p>AKA, DVD's and AC3 (rare) video downloads in surround sound: yes</p><p></p><p>anything else (games, surround sound wma's): nope, still need the 5/6/7/9 channel analog outputs from your sound card to transfer this, b/c no sound cards have realtime AC3/Dolby digital/DTS encoding, and it'll just send stereo out</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yacob.naif, post: 2408767, member: 565696"] There's even cheap soundcards that have optical out. You can't transfer computer surround sound via any type of spdif output, tho. It will transfer DTS/DOLBY DIGITAL out if you're watching a DVD or a video file with AC3 audio if you have everything set-up correctly, but any sound generated by the pc itself will only be transferred as 2-channel stereo PCM stream. AKA, DVD's and AC3 (rare) video downloads in surround sound: yes anything else (games, surround sound wma's): nope, still need the 5/6/7/9 channel analog outputs from your sound card to transfer this, b/c no sound cards have realtime AC3/Dolby digital/DTS encoding, and it'll just send stereo out [/QUOTE]
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