5.1 Support
Chuck Robey
chuckr at chuckr.org
Sun May 1 14:18:12 PDT 2005
Subhro wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> Is there any way to generate 5.1 output with Creative Sound Blaster
> Live! 5.1 sound card when a 5.1 souce file like AC3 is played? The
> driver which is included with the 5.4 is just stereo :-(
>
I don't think that's true at all. First requirement, though, is digital
interfacing. Then, you'll want a program called a52dec, it's in ports,
by that name, but I forget where exactly. That's the decoder function.
You'll want a card that supports this. The soundblaster Audigy is very
cheap, and fully supported by the emu10k1 driver. Support in Linux is
also great, I love that card, and it's cheap. The driver outputs both
analog and digital simultaneously.
I would very much like to have a source file that had fully separated
test toones, one ofor each channel, so that I could test and verify the
5.1 operation, but I must rely upon my ear, and very poorly separated
sources. Under those circumstances, I guess I could not really warrant
its correct operation.
> Regards
> S.
>
>
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