I have a gigabyte GA-ma78gm-s2h it has realtek ALC889a HD audio on it. I have connected my dolby 5.1 speakers via the 1/8 inch headphone style cables and in the speaker test they all sound fine although i have to set it to an 8 speaker configuration to get it realize that i have no side speakers, but when I play and music or video file i only get stereo sound. cant seem to figure it out , is there no speaker setting for 5.1?? any help greatly appreciated!
Message edited by m1th on 04-27-2008 at 03:12:41 PM
TBH if you have a decent Music setup, then i would buy a decent sound card liek the X-fi xtreme music. and if you can connect your Speakers to your s/Card via either optical or coaxiel SPDIF.
anyway on your problem, let me get this straight.
you haev 6 speaker (5.1) yea.
anyway on your problem, letr me get this straight.
you have 6 speaker (5.1) yea.
-5.1 foesnt have a any side speaker, so why not set your s/card to 5.1?
what happens if you play a DVD (not copied or compressed) on your system? do you get 5.1
Message edited by dobby on 04-27-2008 at 04:16:50 PM
I also have it set to 8 and in the speaker test everything works but anytime i play anything in media player or showtime , anything really, i only get stereo . WTF!
Do you mean that you want sound to come out of all 6 speakers? If you have Logitech speakers, you need to hit the "matrix" button. And if your brand of speakers doesn't have this feature, then it's not likely you can play surround sound from a stereo sound file.
we'll i updated from an msi k9mm-v with 5.1 out and it functioned just fine , no matter what file i played it came thru the sub and rear speakers , windows is set to 5.1 , and when i do the speaker test in the realtek software they al work , i cant seem to find the microsoft update to uninstall it like what was mentioned in your thread , what update number is it?
With my Realtek HD when you open up the Audio Manager there is a Default Format tab. Under that there is a option for DTS Interactive 5.1 mode for playing music. But that is for taking stereo music and spreading it to a 5.1 system. You have to remember about 98 percent of music is recorded in stereo. The music DVD's that are recorded in 5.1 format out on the market would require the same needs as playing a DVD movie.
For DVD's if your using WinXP then you will need to buy a full retail version of PowerDVD or WinDVD to get the needed software for decoding 5.1 sound. The latest version of Windows Media Player will also let you go online to buy the codec for decoding 5.1 from both of these companys without buying the whole program as well, saving you a little money.
If your using Vista and your version has Windows Media Center as part of it then you don't need to buy anything. It already comes with the software for decoding 5.1 from DVD's.
when i hit the dts interactive tab it informs me that only the digital outputs will be used, i went ahead and gave it a shot and nada as my speakers are just a cheap set of 5.1's ..... looking for an update with no luck
Dunno if anyone is even gonna read this but i also came across this problem yesterday. I got a GA-MA790FX-DQ6 a few days ago and the 5.1 also works fine in the Realtek HD Audio Manager but only plays through 2 speakers (the "front" speakers) using winamp or media player. I think the retards at Realtek thought they would do us a favour and make all stereo recorded audio only work through 2 speakers - real useful since most stuff is recorded in stereo - gee i didnt wanna use my other speakers anyway <sarcasm>.
Okay so you have two options as i see it to fix this problem - don't know if it will be the same for you guys.
1 - you can set your speaker config to 2 channel in Realtek Audio Manager - that sometimes allows you to configure the sound to come out of all the speakers (kinda sets all your speakers to front) - you might have to select the audio jacks through the manager and change eat audio jack that the speakers are plugged into to "line out". - The only problem with this is when you have true 5.1 from say a dvd you'll have to manually go change back to 6 channel audio or whatever you looking for.
2 - i used an older driver from my previous gigabyte board (older Realtek driver). My previous driver was the Realtek R1.50. You might have to uninstall your driver and then install this older one - I didn't have to i just installed it over the newer one, restarted my pc and when I was back in windows went into the Realtek Audio Manager and set my stuff to 6 channel and everything worked fine. - I think the trade-off on this is you might lose some of the features especially if you have a newer chipset but for me i couldn't really care - I don't see why I need the extra environment settings like simulating me playing my speakers on the top of a mountain.
If it helps any i'm running on Windows XP SP2. GA-MA790FX-DQ6. Realtek ALC889A Onboard Audio.
