Discussions about stereo and 5.1

Stereo sound through whole 5.1 speaker set - is it possible with WinXP or 7? Is it possible to "upmix" (split) stereo output from games, winamp, youtube and so on through 5.1 speaker set? Movies from DVD or some games uses all 6 speakers, but most of today's usage does not. I know foobar2000 can upmix stereo MP3 to all speakers... Started by on Friday, August 14, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Yes it's possible Control Panel app lists two faux surround... . If you are wiring your audio output to external equipment through a stereo path, you will be limited to that. If your hardware has a 5.1 output path, the upmix will be supported.

To make use of 5.1 sound do i need a 5.1 headphone/speaker? I recently bought a laptop with decent speakers & sound card in it. I want to use headphones but im unsure if they also need to have the same audio channels as the sound card (5.1 in this case). Also The laptop itself only has the two standard sound ports... Started by Fellknight on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): If you are looking to get some 5.1 headphones, they will not use the same 3/4 in headphone jack your microphone and regular.... You can use regular stereo headphones with your 5.1 sound card, you will however, only get 2 channels of sound.

Stereo and 5.1 on same DVD w/o making it two tracks? I'm authoring a concert. I have two versions, one 90:00 and one 75:00. There is a stereo and a separate 5.1 mix for both. The client doesn't like the down mix. I want the menu to have 4 buttons to select between: short version-stereo short version-5.1... Started by Donato M. Rondinelli on Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4 posts by 2 people.   Read the full thread at creativecow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at creativecow): If your stereo is ac3 @ .192Mbps, If you are using PCM audio for the stereo your video needs.

Flac 5.1 Audio through S/pdif ony coming though as stereo I am sorry if you have answered this question before, but I couldn't find the answer anywhere. I have a set of bluray quality MKV files that all have multiple audio tracks. For each MKV, 2 of the audio tracks are DTS tracks in english and they play through... Started by illustraik on Saturday, February 04, 2012, 4 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at videolan Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at videolan): So without a 5.1 correctly decode 5.1 FLAC, and .... Your receiver doesn't have a FLAC decoder, which would be different than the Dolby or DTS built in encoder . Which then uses its onboard decoders to decode the audio into 5.1 sound.

Is there a KVM that supports 5.1 audio I've found a few KVMs that support audio. But at best they support stereo. Are there any KVMs on the market that support 5.1 audio? Started by ahsteele on Friday, August 28, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Would just be a extra box + one extra power cable) go to a audio specialist and get a 5.1 mixer output (I honestly don't remember what it's called, but can transfer 5.1 over a single RCA cable.

Stereo or Joint Stereo for mp3 320 CBR using foobar2000 and LAME 3.99. - Hydrogenaudio Forums Hi all, im new here and im new to converting and decoding so i have one question... I was wondering which is better for mp3 320 CBR, Stereo or Joint Stereo? Im using foobar 2000 v1.1.10 and LAME 3.99.3 (stable release) for converting .flac or .waw to ... Started by AlexanderMKD on Friday, January 20, 2012, 18 posts by 10 people.   Read the full thread at hydrogenaudio Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at hydrogenaudio):

HDMI Audio on an Acer Aspire Revo (Nividia ION) is only stereo I have an acer aspire revo connected via HDMI to a 5.1 surround sound system. It uses the nvidia ION graphics chipset. I can only get it into 2 channel stereo mode, as far as i can tell its supposed to be capable of 8 channel sound. It has 64bit windows... Started by Arcath on Saturday, January 16, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Also make sure 5.1 speakers are.... Make sure your speakers are set to 5.1 under the sound panel in control panel. And no, 7.1 (to the best of my knowledge I've found are 6 channel . 5.1 sound works fine on my Revo with Windows 7 (x86).

Realtek HD Audio 5.1 on Windows 7 I have problem with Realtek 5.1 driver for Windows 7 x64. I've installed newest drivers for Realtek HD Audio, but 5.1 still doesn't work, the only thing that works is front stereo. However, when I click on single speaker in sound settings test, every ... Started by Darth on Tuesday, November 03, 2009, 11 posts by 11 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): I now have ubuntu and enjoying perfect 5.1 sound now, all my boxes can't really call speaker fill 5.1 as the quality of rear speakers are horrible and vocals can X-540 5.1 it was all good and now .... Was switching operating systems.

Using Sigmatel STAC 92XX on Windows 7 RTM x64, cannot get 5.1 surround sound to work I have a Dell XPS 420. I've installed Windows 7 RTM (x64) I have this audio device: SIGMATEL STAC 92XX C-Major HD Audio I have tried using the windows 7 basic driver, and also the Vista 64-bit driver from Dell's website (details): Date: 10/29/2007 Version... Started by Roy Rico on Monday, September 28, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): If i test the 5.1 sound in windows 7. Except for me that center and the back speakers are mixed up .

Use all 5.1 speakers with a 2.1 audio source Hi! I just bought a 5.1 surround sound speaker set for my computer in my bedroom. The rear speakers are next to me in bed while the front speakers are at the other end of the bed at my feet. While I enjoy the surround sound during movies that support ... Started by thegreyspot on Sunday, January 17, 2010, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Check this AVSForum discussion on Disable stereo upmix on Realtek HD Audio? The Reaktek to change this to 5.1 ? If .... Usually with a 5.1 speaker system on the Realtek HD , you should get an upmix of your stereo and 2.1 audio.