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Hi. First of all, i know nothing about PCs, so go easy on me.

Basically, what i want is to be able to get my PC to have 5.1 audio...

I bought a samsung HT J5500k home theater which has 1 optical audio in and only 1 hdmi out...
Right now, im using the HDMI out to connect my tv (also used as PC monitor) and the optical oudio in to connect it to my PC... my PC's motherboard is an ASUS M5A97 EVO R 2.0, whcich has 1 optical audio out...

on the reproduction devices list, the home theater appears as audio digital S/PDIF and it won't allow me to go to configuration and set it to 5.1 audio.

Is there anything i can do to make this work?
 
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optical wont do PC audio in 5.1, unless its pre-encoded (DVD, bluray media)
i'll read the manual now
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So yeah, basically that system sucks for PC usage. You can get 5.1 sound, If the following criteria are met:

1. Your audio is pre-encoded, and uses a pass-through media player. This means DVD, blu ray, or rips of those with the audio left intact in its original form.

2. If your soundcard supports DDL/DTS encoding, you can get 5.1 audio that way. This is rather uncommon, and even when it does work it can behave oddly at time.



edit of an edit: hey guess what, your motherboard supports it. It's called DTS connect, just enable that in the realtek sound settings. It'll upmix stereo to fake 5.1, and let regular 5.1 through as well if your media players are set up for it.
 

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optical wont do PC audio in 5.1, unless its pre-encoded (DVD, bluray media)
i'll read the manual now
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So yeah, basically that system sucks for PC usage. You can get 5.1 sound, If the following criteria are met:

1. Your audio is pre-encoded, and uses a pass-through media player. This means DVD, blu ray, or rips of those with the audio left intact in its original form.

2. If your soundcard supports DDL/DTS encoding, you can get 5.1 audio that way. This is rather uncommon, and even when it does work it can behave oddly at time.



edit of an edit: hey guess what, your motherboard supports it. It's called DTS connect, just enable that in the realtek sound settings. It'll upmix stereo to fake 5.1, and let regular 5.1 through as well if your media players are set up for it.

Can you guide me through this? i don't know what realtek sound is ( is it a program i have to download or something?) ...
 

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Can you guide me through this? i don't know what realtek sound is ( is it a program i have to download or something?) ...

its the software for your sound card.
 
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Many people want this. But not much love for 5.1 on PCs.
The best you can do is hook it up on a maybe external or pci sound card.
But they dont come cheap.

Edit: I did try to get this on my own machine, and i could get as close as 2.1 and nothing else. My board has 6 audio pins but it is not douable in my case. Maybe someone more experienced can comment on this.
 
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Can you guide me through this? i don't know what realtek sound is ( is it a program i have to download or something?) ...

Download Realtek's latest audio drivers from ASUS website. Once installed you will be able to select DTS Connect from Realtek's audio menu. DTS 5.1 will work as Mussels described in everyday audio. Then you can select Dolby Digital for actual DVDs and Blu Ray discs using digital out or SPDIF in your media player. That is the compromise.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_EVO_R20/HelpDesk_Download


The menu might look slightly different for you.


 
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Its also depends what your trying to play.
 
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I did something similar with a Turtle Beach Montego DDL. I did what Muscles is suggesting. Have the card encode to fake 5.1 and set up your receiver to decode it.
 
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Those all in one Bluray systems aren't designed to be a AVR. They have a Optical input so you can plug your TV into for cable. But most LCD TV only output 2.1 so I'm sure that's all it will do as Pro logic

If you want to know if your board will do 5.1 then go to the sound panel and check the properties/Supported formats under Optical S/PDIF . It will say 8 channel DTS DD or 2 Channel
 

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Download Realtek's latest audio drivers from ASUS website. Once installed you will be able to select DTS Connect from Realtek's audio menu. DTS 5.1 will work as Mussels described in everyday audio. Then you can select Dolby Digital for actual DVDs and Blu Ray discs using digital out or SPDIF in your media player. That is the compromise.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_EVO_R20/HelpDesk_Download


The menu might look slightly different for you.


it looks very very different :s ... i can't find the way to do what ypu told me to... i downloaded the driver using the link you gave me and this how it looks like

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it looks very very different :s
Different theme, same functionality. You should see this if your driver was installed properly. I would try downloading the latest audio driver from ASUS to see if that fixes the problem with DTS Connect being missing.

Personally, I've had excellent luck with DTS Connect using analog 5.1.
dtsconnect.PNG
 

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under "default format" where it shows 16 bit, 48000Hz - that one should have an option to change to DTS connect.
 

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well, then i guess my board doesnt support 5.1 at all. there's not a DTS option on the list.
ASUS' site says it does. You probably need a different driver or it didn't install properly the first time around. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen this occur.
 
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If you check the properties it will tell you if it does
 

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just install the driver from the asus site and it should be there. make sure you're on the right output in the realtek software.
 

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just install the driver from the asus site and it should be there. make sure you're on the right output in the realtek software.
For what it's worth, I don't use Realtek's drivers directly because things like this feature won't be available. Audio is one of those things that has a lot of vendor-specific variation on how it's implemented and it works its way into the driver. Personally, I would uninstall the audio drivers, go on ASUS' site to get the latest ones, then see if the option is there or not. As I said earlier, it wouldn't be the first time I've seen features missing because the drivers were downloaded from Realtek directly instead of ASUS. I'm inclined to believe that the driver wasn't properly installed or the wrong driver was used.
 
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it looks very very different :s ... i can't find the way to do what ypu told me to... i downloaded the driver using the link you gave me and this how it looks like

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well, then I guess my board doesn't support 5.1 at all. there's not a DTS option on the list.

It looks different because the software theme has changed over the years. The screenshot I gave is old.

Do as Aquinus said and uninstall your audio drivers and then download the latest from ASUS website. The feature is definitely supported as its listed on your motherboard specification.
 
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I've got the Asus Maximus Ranger with optical out and based on my findings 5.1 isn't supported via optical. I stand corrected if you find a solution and please let me know.

I've exhausted every potential solution
 
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I've got the Asus Maximus Ranger with optical out and based on my findings 5.1 isn't supported via optical. I stand corrected if you find a solution and please let me know.

I've exhausted every potential solution

Asus Maximus Ranger VII supports DTS connect. So you can get DTS 5.1 to your receiver using that feature.

Chapter 4, page 27 of the manual.

 
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that's been tried a looooong time ago..doesn't work.

i'll give it another shot.
 
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that's been tried a looooong time ago..doesn't work.

i'll give it another shot.

What brand and model is your AV receiver?

Make sure you're using a digital cable. It won't work if you use analogue connection.

I've used DTS Connect feature on a few different soundcards in the past and in conjunction with a couple models of receivers. DTS Connect always worked and the DTS light always came on to verify it. Never tried it using integrated audio but it shouldn't make any difference.

Noticed you're in the UK. You can get the Xonar DSX 7.1 for £35 in PCWorld, Curry's or Amazon. I've got the same card and can 100% verify it does work on my receiver. DTS lights up every time - Although your motherboard does support the technology already so no reason why you should buy anything else.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007PTJNBQ/?tag=tec053-21
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/compu...7-1-channel-pcie-sound-card-21857438-pdt.html
 
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I've got an LG home theatre system with all the bell and whistles including DTS. I use an optical cable from the optical port on the back of the motherboard to the optical port behind the AV receiver.

Once DTS is selected the DTS light comes on on the receiver. There are only a few options to try to get this to work but no sound.

I can do without 5.1 tbh. I promised the missus no more PC components till the end of the year. Check my specs out, I've done it all. Lol

There's got to be some driver issue with it. I've got the latest 6.0.1 7525

Anything above 16Bits, 48000Hz(DVD Quality won't work using the optical link


Found this however https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?72873-Windows-10-and-DTS-Connect!
 
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