12 Dec
2003
12 Dec
'03
5:30 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:20:08PM +0100, Malte Steiner wrote:
beside me is a box from Shuttle with a nForce chipset. It features somehow 5.1 sound and I wounder if its possible to use these channel as actual ones from PD, either under Linux or WinXP. So far I can only use 2 channels with PD.
"somehow 5.1 sound" is also called "Dolby Surround (R)". The nForce sound chipset has SPDIF in/out jacks for 5.1. Only pre-mastered 5.1 streams can be played via the SPDIF out jack to a proprietary decoder. Encoding is also proprietary.
So if you want multi-channel sound, you need a multi-channel card with good drivers and no restrictions on the software and formats.
-- Marc