liquidtwitch Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Hi, just wondering if anyone can suggest a suggest a 5.1 sound card with spdiff supported? tried a CMI8738 pci card and a CMI86206 USB card using the CMI8206 enabler, both work fine with stereo, but no luck on the 5.1 front. Any advise would be muchly appreciated This is from http://www.dr-lex.be/software/cm6206.html More about the S/PDIF output: as far as I can tell, the CM6206 only supports 8 output channels, and on most cards only 6 of those are connected. There is no separate S/PDIF output channel, which is why you won't see it in the OS X control panel or Audio Midi Setup. The S/PDIF can only be turned on and off and is just a hardwired copy of the signal that goes to the Front channel. You can get AC3/DTS passthrough by configuring your media application to pass through the undecoded 5.1 stream. This makes the card's S/PDIF only really useful on a ‘hackintosh’ that doesn't have a built-in S/PDIF, because on a real Mac it's much simpler and cheaper to use the Mac's built-in S/PDIF through a 3.5mm jack adapter. Does that indicate that 5.1 through SPDIF is not supported? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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