Stereo or full 5.1 with spdif output

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I have an Asus A8N motherboard and I want to connect up a set of Logitech
5.1 speakers via the spdif socket.

Does the SPdif support full 5.1 surround or just regular Stereo?

I only ask because when I connect it up, the logitech speaker control centre
says that it is stereo feed and gives no options for 5.1

Thanks very much for any help

 

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> Does the SPdif support full 5.1 surround or just regular Stereo?

Stereo, unless you have a DVD and set your DVD player to 'SP/DIF
Passthrough'

> I only ask because when I connect it up, the logitech speaker control centre
> says that it is stereo feed and gives no options for 5.1

Sadly, you will only ever see that in NForce 2 motherboards that have
SoundStorm (eg. Asus A7N8X, Abit NF7-S)

 

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BananaOfTheNight wrote:
>> Does the SPdif support full 5.1 surround or just regular Stereo?
>
>
> Stereo, unless you have a DVD and set your DVD player to 'SP/DIF
> Passthrough'

Sad, but true :-(.

>> I only ask because when I connect it up, the logitech speaker control
>> centre says that it is stereo feed and gives no options for 5.1
>
>
> Sadly, you will only ever see that in NForce 2 motherboards that have
> SoundStorm (eg. Asus A7N8X, Abit NF7-S)
That's not quite true. Some new motherboards (all intel-chipset based,
afaik) can do this too (it's called "Dolby Digital Live"), for instance
the asus P5AD2 Premium. If I'm not mistaken, this is a 100% software
solution, but it probably won't take too many cpu cycles.
That other boards can't do it has no technical reasons, this is due to
licensing issues.

Roland

 

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> That's not quite true. Some new motherboards (all intel-chipset based,
> afaik) can do this too (it's called "Dolby Digital Live"), for instance
> the asus P5AD2 Premium. If I'm not mistaken, this is a 100% software
> solution, but it probably won't take too many cpu cycles.

Real-time DD5.1 is back? Uber-sweet...though I'm an AMD-64 convert.