Surround audio problem?

[lowfat]

Originally Posted by Arinoth

What signal does your receiver report receiving from your pc?

I get full 5.1 playback on my htpc connected to my receiver via HDMI however i will look at the settings to see if there was anything extra i had to do

Here are my settings for XBMC
System > Settings > Audio output
audio output - HDMI (for me)
Speaker Configuration - 5.1 (manually set it to that)
Dolby Digital capable receiver - enabled (mine is)
DTS capable receiver - enabled (mine is)
Audio output Device - WASAPI: ATI HDMI Output (what the pc primary audio output to xbmc)

For my PC connected via optical from onboard
Sound -> Digital Audio -> Supported Formats
DTs audio - enabled
Dolby Digital - enabled

If you are using this and even your music is coming out of all of your speakers then you receiver is what is doing the upmixing.

[Arinoth]

Originally Posted by lowfat

If you are using this and even your music is coming out of all of your speakers then you receiver is what is doing the upmixing.

Yes however there is NO software on my pc side doing this is what i'm also trying to get it. I have for this and my past receiver just hooked it up the optical cable from my pc to my receivers and i get 5.1 audio out for anything i playback with no additional drivers installed ontop of windows default audio drivers.

Remember i have two different PCs hooked up to my receiver. When i refer to PC i am only talking about my optical from my main rig to my receiver. HTPC is well my htpc through hdmi.

[TimTheEnchanter]

Well i kinda expected to get what Arinoth had. So my two options are swapping sound card from my main to htpc or go with hdmi, which would make more sense although i'll have to get rid of my gpu..

[Jake_HT]

You have a forte available? Use that, turn on X-Fi CMSS 3-D and obviously set to 5.1.. it'll upscale to 5.1, does a pretty good job also.

[lowfat]

Originally Posted by Arinoth

Yes however there is NO software on my pc side doing this is what i'm also trying to get it. I have for this and my past receiver just hooked it up the optical cable from my pc to my receivers and i get 5.1 audio out for anything i playback with no additional drivers installed ontop of windows default audio drivers.

Remember i have two different PCs hooked up to my receiver. When i refer to PC i am only talking about my optical from my main rig to my receiver. HTPC is well my htpc through hdmi.

Then it is definitely the receiver has some sort of DSP enabled.

Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter

Well i kinda expected to get what Arinoth had. So my two options are swapping sound card from my main to htpc or go with hdmi, which would make more sense although i'll have to get rid of my gpu..

Use the receiver to upmix the 2 channel soundtracks to 5.1. It will do a better job than most soundcards.

[TimTheEnchanter]

Might be my lack of experience with receivers, but i have no clue how to do that, even after exploring the options it has.

[lowfat]

You want to enable Pro Logic IIx if at all possible.

[lowfat]

You could try Speaker fill found in Control Panel\Sound. As long as your soundcard/chipset supports encoding of AC3, this may be a viable solution.

[TimTheEnchanter]

But that means using speaker output and therefore no optical or hdmi?

[lowfat]

Is there no option like that under optical?