Need help to set up 5.1 on my PC - i know nothing about PC

[flmatter]

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OP just needs to follow @Aquinus @Jetster @Dent1 and @Mussels advice

 

[Aquinus]

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!

Toslink is a uni-directional connection. As in, the receiver doesn't tell the audio device about its capabilities so it's entirely possible that it's trying to do something that's unsupported. That is why you have to select what formats and sampling rates are supported.

 

[EdInk]

Toslink is a uni-directional connection. As in, the receiver doesn't tell the audio device about its capabilities so it's entirely possible that it's trying to do something that's unsupported. That is why you have to select what formats and sampling rates are supported.
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Current settings

Once DTS 5.1 is selected in the advanced tab...sound doesn't come back on.

I've exhausted hours trying to get this fixed when I first got my motherboard.... so if someone out there has theirs working with Windows 10...let me know. To my knowledge the issue is with Windows 10. A quick web search will reveal all

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

 

[Jetster]

Download and install CCCP. http://www.cccp-project.net/

Go into LAV audio settings and check the appropriate boxes (start / all apps / CCCP )

But if your source file is not 5.1 it will not play 5.1

 

[Aquinus]

Current settingsView attachment 70693

Once DTS 5.1 is selected in the advanced tab...sound doesn't come back on.

I've exhausted hours trying to get this fixed when I first got my motherboard.... so if someone out there has theirs working with Windows 10...let me know. To my knowledge the issue is with Windows 10. A quick web search will reveal all

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

Optical isn't set to default, are you manually selecting the audio device in whatever application you're using? I would try dropping down to 44.2Khz and unselecting 48Khz.

Could you provide the model number of your receiver? Documentation should say what the receiver supports because it might not be able to drive DTS at 48Khz but might at 44.2.

 

[Jetster]

Is your source file DD or DTS? If not you wont get 5.1 end of story

And if its encoded with FFDshow then your native ASUS drivers will not do it. Which is why I suggested CCCP

 

[Aquinus]

Is your source file DD or DTS? If not you wont get 5.1 end of story

It should if DTS Connect is turned on because it should be re-encoding the audio as a 5.1 DTS format. You need to enable 5.1 DTS in order to be able to enable DTS Connect via optical which should do that for you. Granted, I don't actively have access to a receiver with optical audio for an input so, I can't experiment to ensure that's the case however, I don't think it would give you the option to enable DTS Connect if it can't work that way.

I admit, I could be wrong but, I thought that it took care of that for you when you use DTS Connect via optical.

 

[Jetster]

It should if DTS Connect is turned on because it should be re-encoding the audio as a 5.1 DTS format. You need to enable 5.1 DTS in order to be able to enable DTS Connect via optical which should do that for you. Granted, I don't actively have access to a receiver with optical audio for an input so, I can't experiment to ensure that's the case however, I don't think it would give you the option to enable DTS Connect if it can't work that way.

I admit, I could be wrong but, I thought that it took care of that for you when you use DTS Connect via optical.

Optical is just throughput. If its not 5.1 it wont make it 5.1. That would be Dolby Pro Logic and the receiver will do that

FFDShow at the pc can also do that

The other thing it could be is ifs its a DD True HD or Master Audio it wont work ether. Optical does not have the bandwidth

 

[Aquinus]

Optical is just throughput. If its not 5.1 it wont make it 5.1

That's what DTS Connect is for, it turns stereo into 5.1.

DTS Connect is a blanket name for a two-part system used on the computer platform only, in order to convert PC audio into the DTS format, transported via a single S/PDIF cable.[10] The two components of the system are DTS Interactive and DTS Neo: PC. It is found on various CMedia soundcards and onboard audio with Realtek ALC883DTS/ALC889A/ALC888DD-GR/ALC892-DTS-CG and SoundMAX AD1988 chips, as well as several cards based on the X-Fi chipset, such as the SoundBlaster Titanium series andAuzentech's X-Fi Forte, X-Fi Prelude, X-Fi Home Theater HD and X-Fi Bravura cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS_(sound_system)#DTS_Connect

 

[Jetster]

Yeah Ive never heard of it so ... I doesn't say it turns 2.1 into DTS it says it turns multi channel into DTS which is a compression so it will work on Optical. But let me look at it

Okay I guess your right. Stereo into DTS 5.1 weird. Did not know that

But DTS is not DTS connect. DTS Connect is a Creative Labs software

 

[Aquinus]

Yeah Ive never heard of it so ... I doesn't say it turns 2.1 into DTS it says it turns multi channel into DTS which is a compression so it will work on Optical. But let me look at it

Okay I guess your right. Stereo into DTS 5.1 weird. Did not know that

But DTS is not DTS connect. DTS Connect is a Creative Labs software

I use the DTS Neo: PC part to do stereo to 5.1 analog on my old and cheap setup on my tower. It's basically the equivalent of "Speaker fill". I think there is a configuration issue with @EdInk's setup.

 

[Dent1]

Is your source file DD or DTS? If not you wont get 5.1 end of story

Not true. This is why Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect was invented.

Had many soundcards with both technologies and never had an issue.

Yeah Ive never heard of it so ... I doesn't say it turns 2.1 into DTS it says it turns multi channel into DTS which is a compression so it will work on Optical. But let me look at it

Okay I guess your right. Stereo into DTS 5.1 weird. Did not know that

But DTS is not DTS connect. DTS Connect is a Creative Labs software

DTS Connect is not Creative software. The DTS Connect technology is licenced by DTS, Inc.

DTS, Inc has licenced-out their technology a bunch of soundcard vendors. Creative just happens to be one of the many licence holders. Along with ASUS, C-media, Realtek etc.

DTS Connect is typically used in conjunction with DTS interactive. Its not just about converting 2.0 to 5.1, it can also convert 5.0 PCM to DTS 5.1. If there is enough channels it doesn't have to do an upmix.

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Current settingsView attachment 70693

Once DTS 5.1 is selected in the advanced tab...sound doesn't come back on.

I've exhausted hours trying to get this fixed when I first got my motherboard.... so if someone out there has theirs working with Windows 10...let me know. To my knowledge the issue is with Windows 10. A quick web search will reveal all

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

The DTS 5.1 selection in the advanced tab is for something else irrelevant to what we are trying to achieve. That selection is so the driver give permission to DVDs and Bluray content which typically has DTS pre-encoded to access the audio board.

The DTS Connect or DTS Interactive (however they've labelled it) setting you are after is located within ASUS's audio driver suit. This controls how DTS is handled in non pre-encoded audios such as games, mp3s and audio in general.

 

[Jetster]

Ive just never ran into DTS connect. Its a DTS variant. I just didn't see where the ASUS software can do this. I just though he was trying to make a silk purse out of a sow ear. We still don't know what the source is. If its any of the HD audio it wont work

OP just try multipal audio files

 

[Mussels]

its a realtek feature and fairly common on high end boards of that age. We've got two people asking for help which is confusing the issue.


With the right drivers you just turn on the setting, 5.1 audio gets passed through and stereo gets upmixed to 5.1. If the receiver doesnt support DTS, you'll simply get no sound.

 

[EdInk]

Ive just never ran into DTS connect. Its a DTS variant. I just didn't see where the ASUS software can do this. I just though he was trying to make a silk purse out of a sow ear. We still don't know what the source is. If its any of the HD audio it wont work

I've tried it with Bluray ISO files. MP3 files, YouTube videos using the Asus suite settings or Windows 10 setting with the same result. No sound.

I appreciate all the responses but can anyone confirm they actually tried it and it's worked without 3rd party software, using the onboard soundcard that ships with an Asus Motherboard?

 

[Mussels]

I've tried it with Bluray ISO files. MP3 files, YouTube videos using the Asus suite settings or Windows 10 setting with the same result. No sound.

I appreciate all the responses but can anyone confirm they actually tried it and it's worked without 3rd party software, using the onboard soundcard that ships with an Asus Motherboard?
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i have in the past. its a simple on-off setting - if its not working, then you've got a fault with your setup and that goes beyond this threads scope, especially since you're hijacking someone elses help thread.

 

[EdInk]

especially since you're hijacking someone elses help thread.

My bad then. I fear he might end up in the same situation.

I shall henceforth create a new thread if needed.


Thanks all

 

[andres92]

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.

Ok, i did what you said and went to ASUS site and downloaded the latest drivers i found (from here https://www.asus.com/support/Download/1/24/46/7/QsleSfiMgdBr9241/30/) and it didn't work. this is frustrating.

 

[Aquinus]

Could you provide the model number of your receiver? Documentation should say what the receiver supports because it might not be able to drive DTS at 48Khz but might at 44.2.

@andres92 & @EdInk: Could we get the make and model of both of your receivers? I suspect documentation will shed some light on the matter.

 

[andres92]

@andres92 & @EdInk: Could we get the make and model of both of your receivers? I suspect documentation will shed some light on the matter.

well, as i said in the tittle i know nothing about PC and stuff haha... i am guessing the reciver would be, in my case, my home theater?

ok so my board is an AMD M5A97 EVO R 2.0 - i have the PC connected to my home theater (Samsung HT J5500K) trough optical audio cable