nheather
Outstanding Member
Torn whether to post here or in the PC section - decided this forum had the best understaning of audio formats.
The immediate answer is "use HDMI from your graphics card". I get that and I understand that.
The reason I am persisting is that I would like to send audio into my receiver by video direct into my TV as I would like to use a dedicated input on my TV that it optimised for video gaming.
I have tried using ARC to send the audio down from my TV to the receiver but although this works with a BDP, it inisists on setting my PC output to 2 channel PCM regardless of what I try.
I thought the answer would be to fit a dedicated audio card to my PC with an optical output but everything I have read said that would be 2 Channel PCM only.
In fact the ASUS audio card manual states that the optical format can only support stereo PCM. It is a clear statement but one that does confuse me a little - it wasn't long ago, before HDMI everywhere, that our BDPs and Games Consoles connected to AVRs using optical or coax and 5.1 worked fine then.
So is it true - is the only way of getting 5.1 out of a PC over HDMI - optical will be stereo only?
Cheers,
Nigel
The immediate answer is "use HDMI from your graphics card". I get that and I understand that.
The reason I am persisting is that I would like to send audio into my receiver by video direct into my TV as I would like to use a dedicated input on my TV that it optimised for video gaming.
I have tried using ARC to send the audio down from my TV to the receiver but although this works with a BDP, it inisists on setting my PC output to 2 channel PCM regardless of what I try.
I thought the answer would be to fit a dedicated audio card to my PC with an optical output but everything I have read said that would be 2 Channel PCM only.
In fact the ASUS audio card manual states that the optical format can only support stereo PCM. It is a clear statement but one that does confuse me a little - it wasn't long ago, before HDMI everywhere, that our BDPs and Games Consoles connected to AVRs using optical or coax and 5.1 worked fine then.
So is it true - is the only way of getting 5.1 out of a PC over HDMI - optical will be stereo only?
Cheers,
Nigel