Xonar upscaling to 5.1

[lowfat]

It has been a while since I've owned a Xonar, and can't remember if/how I dealt with this. But all my 2 channel stuff is being upscaled to 5.1. I do not want/like this. Is there a way to disable this somehow?

[JD]

Change the "Channel Type" to 6 channel. That should do it.

[lowfat]

Originally Posted by jdrom17

Change the "Channel Type" to 6 channel. That should do it.

I had it in 6 channel which is when it upscales to 5.1. If I put it to 2 channels then it plays in stereo. Just rather annoying to have to do this everytime I want to swap between games and movies.

[JD]

Originally Posted by lowfat

I had it in 6 channel which is when it upscales to 5.1. If I put it to 2 channels then it plays in stereo. Just rather annoying to have to do this everytime I want to swap between games and movies.

Really? I always had mine on 6 channel and 5.1 Speakers as the output. Stereo sources only played in stereo. 5.1 played in 5.1. Never had to change anything.

Are you sure it's not a codec you have?

[lowfat]

It happens w/ both iTunes and Foobar2000, both of which use their own codecs. And both worked great when using ATI or Nvidia HDMI audio. Having it like the following plays music upscaled.


EDIT: Maybe it is just Foobar2000. I could have sworn that iTunes did it as well. But checking it now seems to work fine.