Depends on how cheap....
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Jason Jackson
Adrian Gomez
I just plugged my pc(windows 7) to a receiver that supports DTS and Dolbly Digital. What are some things I could do to enjoy 5.1 surround? Almost everything still comes out as stereo specially games that I know that have 5.1 support and I couldn't figure out what I am missing to make the surround work.
Logan Stewart
Never connected my computer to a receiver before but I would imagine most games would require you to enable 5.1 in-game and you should have 5.1 enabled in your audio drivers.
Connor Myers
I'm a bit over my head but how did you plug it in? You need to use either an HDMI cable or an optical or something that can pass that signal where your receiver will recognize it. Also you may need to manually change the sound setting on your receiver in case your sound card isn't passing the flag that tells the receiver what sound it is sending.
Jaxson Torres
I plugged with a S/PDFI optical out of my motherboard. I could get 5.1 surround running a demo clip in MPC-HC with AC3 filters.
Jayden Ross
Do you have 5.1 selected in the advance options?
Eli Rodriguez
Unfortunately it seems I cannot enable DTS through the SPDFI output, these are all the options I have under SPDFI. Meanwhile if I switch to HDMI I get a new DTS tab which I can enable it however my receiver doesn't have a HDMI input only. Is it possible to force my SPDFI output to send DTS audio somehow?
Strangely enough I do not have such option.
Isaiah Bailey
I guess I need one of these because it seems my onboard sound doesn't seem send dts through the SPDFI only to through the HDMI or get a sound card that does the job of sending 5.1 dts through the spdfi, Any ideas?
Jeremiah Taylor
Thanks m8. Do you like the amp?
Easton Collins
>Is it possible to force my SPDFI output to send DTS audio somehow?
This will not work on any hardware because of bandwidth limitations