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
 
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
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Sadly, you will only ever see that in NForce 2 motherboards that have
SoundStorm (eg. Asus A7N8X, Abit NF7-S)
 
BananaOfTheNight said:
Stereo, unless you have a DVD and set your DVD player to 'SP/DIF
Passthrough'
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Sad, but true :-(.
Sadly, you will only ever see that in NForce 2 motherboards that have
SoundStorm (eg. Asus A7N8X, Abit NF7-S)
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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.
That other boards can't do it has no technical reasons, this is due to
licensing issues.

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