2009-03-05, 22:25
From the manual I get:
# Output Stereo to all Speakers
* This option allows any stereo soundtrack to be played through all speakers. XBMC does this by simply copying the sound to all channels. There is no surround sound calculation involved at all.
* The sound is encoded by the XBox into AC3 and output via the digital out. Requires you to be using the Digital Output.
Just to make sure in testing this I completely disable DDL (Dolby Digital Live) in the sound card settings. I have my PC send the DTS/AC3 compatible receiver a straight 48khz 2.0 signal in XBMC. When doing this I would assume that the receiver should show "Dolby Digital" from reading the manual. Specifically "The sound is encoded by the XBox into AC3 and output via the digital out." But on the other hand this does only mention Xbox. So I am windering if we should be getting the same results in windows. I do know this does work on my xbox setup. If those does work I can eliminate the use for DDL and switch to a more pure 3rd party driver.
# Output Stereo to all Speakers
* This option allows any stereo soundtrack to be played through all speakers. XBMC does this by simply copying the sound to all channels. There is no surround sound calculation involved at all.
* The sound is encoded by the XBox into AC3 and output via the digital out. Requires you to be using the Digital Output.
Just to make sure in testing this I completely disable DDL (Dolby Digital Live) in the sound card settings. I have my PC send the DTS/AC3 compatible receiver a straight 48khz 2.0 signal in XBMC. When doing this I would assume that the receiver should show "Dolby Digital" from reading the manual. Specifically "The sound is encoded by the XBox into AC3 and output via the digital out." But on the other hand this does only mention Xbox. So I am windering if we should be getting the same results in windows. I do know this does work on my xbox setup. If those does work I can eliminate the use for DDL and switch to a more pure 3rd party driver.