Best sound card for movies

Yes I know, but I want a better sound coming out from my pc cause when I see a movie from my home dvd the sound is much better so I though that if I buy a sound card my pc sound will get better. At the moment I am connected trough coaxial cable from an on board card.

No doubt the sound card will improve audio quality. People think there's very little difference & that sound card is just a waste of money (when onboard sound serves you rather well), but trust me, once you hear w/ a sound card attached, the expense seems totally worth it. Also the sound card frees up the CPU to dedicate itself to pure data processing rather than also have an additional audio overlay.
The Creative X-Fi titanium is a good one. You could also get the Fata1ty version if possible.

I have 5 b&W speakers + yamaha sub woofer. Front main are big floor standing 200w the others center and surround are smaller hang on speakers 100w. The sub woofer is 100w everything is attached to my home receiver

if you want to have gd sound quality, use your SPDIF, or Co-ax, HDMI from your motherboard to your receiver, if you have one. And invest in a gd Monster digital cable.

Thanks dude, that's an interesting idea, I'll be catching 2 birds with 1 stone, better sound and a gc upgrade and as I am into a quite pc this card seams to have everything I need its passive so no noise, consumes few power so its good for my fanless psu and its not expensive. I will give it a serious thought

I have a pioneer receiver, nvidia 7300gt with dvi out asus mb and an infocus projector

then there is no way, use the digital connection from your mobo

well s-video connection doesnt carry audio signals.

anyway i dont really see the reason why the OP wont just use the mobo , has he not got one???

Yes I am using digital out. Could it be the software? I am watch movies with wmp or vlc

I play movies using wmp or vlc those are software no, maybe there are other software that can produce better sound than these two

Since the OP doesn't have his speakers connected to the computer the uncompressed MC PCM isn't important to him, correct?
The HD 5450 and it's HDMI ver 1.3 support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio (MA) would have been an easy, inexpensive way to get the compressed audio bit-stream to the OP's receiver for unpacking.

Asus Xonar DS is the best sound card.

lmao!!!! this just aint working...

I think WR2 doesn't understand the difference between bitstream and linear PCM. The former is compressed and requires decoding on the other end, the latter is uncompressed and requires no decoding, and both are hdmi digital formats.

He also states that you can avoid using a sound card by using onboard hdmi, but this is incorrect. The onboard chipsets, only have 2 channel PCM functionality, as they lack hardware acceleration.

The first soundcards to support multichannel (linear) pcm was the ATI 5xxx series, and the only ones that can do linear pcm AND bitstream is the HDAV 1.3. For movies with hd codecs you absolutely need the asus hdav 1.3, since only the oldest blu ray movies had uncompressed audio, and no other card can do bitstreaming right now.

Yes they did. Anybody who knows anything about blu ray playback knows this. That's why everyone is handcuffed to the HDAV 1.3 unless you want to rip your movies in multichannel FLAC.

that is what i understand so far. arent u guys now mixing the same thing together. i think its teh little deatil to bitstreams and LINEAR PCM
just like ast. sed, ati 5 series and HDAV 1.3 are the only CARD so far, that can do 8 channel linear PCM am i right so far???

The problem is not the hardware, it's the software support obviously. All the HDMI interface is a digital bypass device, it relies entirely on software. Functionality can always be hacked in if you are a proficient programmer, but this doesn't really work for the majority of end users.