Yes.... After all my bitching about pointlessness for general use etc i now need a soundcard of my own....
Let it be known i have no intention of spending £lol needlessly.
Yesterday i bought a new surround system for myself... 1000W RMS = LOLOLOLOLOLOL SOUND
Connected it to PC via co-axial Digital connection to my motehrboards onboard S/P DIF output.
After much time of fiddling and setting up FFDShow Audio, managed to get proper 5.1 out of it when watching video with AC3 format audio, however as windows deals with the device in a very strange way, unless you are playing using FFDshow to Override windows and Force-out 5.1 throught he S/P DIF you cant get the computer to do it, other than pressing the test button on the windows setup.
The reason for this seems to be as an inbuilt unit it cant encode standard output to either AC3 or DTS (or any other format, for that matter).
This means I have my glorious surrond sound system with Blu ray player, and full HD movies on my Pc that I CAN watch and hear in awsomeglory, but music or more importantly GAMING will not output in 5.1 no matter how the games are set.
For brief research I have concluded that I require a card capable of real time encoding to AC3(dolby digital) or DTS. I dont care about the "Crystal Clear" technology or "Di-phonic sound VII", i jsut want something that will output AC3 or DTS from any source. Also,
Also if you were thinking ill have to find a card with Co-axial digital out, not optical - either is fine, the home cinema unit has both, ideally co-axial would be better as i need optical for the xbox and would rather not have to keep switching but meh :P
So.... GO VOX - FLY FLY! ^^
started looking on ebay and quickly came across this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Asus-Xonar-D2-...item1e59dd51b2
Bit more than id like to pay, especially if im going to have to wait to recieve. From what i gather thats a very god card and i really dont need anything like that.
I will continue to browse and update this post but I would like useful feedback please
UPDATES:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Trust-SC-7600-...item3358b06de2
Not sure if that does teh encoding stuff i need, tho it says things about the formats i need. EDIT: Looking at the manual it appears it does.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...tid=11&subcat=
In the description this one specifically states it does, but is tehre any reason that the cheaper one wouldnt?
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