3square Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 hello, i have GA-Z77X-UP5-TH board with ALC898 manage to found a patch AppleHDA to use. my question... is SPDIF optical out only works when i use VLC passthrough, or XBMC as i'm told. is that the only way it can be utilized? it is working as such, but when i select optical out from the sound pref pane, it is gray out and no volume control available can it also work for system sounds/alert or even from iTunes/spotify? I have it hook up to a receiver. it's a PITA to manually switch from analog to optical everytime. thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toleda Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 my question... is SPDIF optical out only works when i use VLC passthrough, or XBMC as i'm told. it is working as such, but when i select optical out from the sound pref pane, it is gray out and no volume control available can it also work for system sounds/alert or even from iTunes/spotify? Optical out works the same as the the other audio output devices with a couple of exceptions: 1. No volume control, use the receiver volume control. 2. Supports mono and stereo, iTunes, Safari, etc. 3. Supports XBMC/Plex 5.1 surround (DD and DTS). VLC passthrough is DD only. 4. Use Audio MIDI Setup to assign system alerts to Optical. 5. Can switch to/from Optical from/to any working audio output device with the keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3square Posted November 4, 2013 Author Share Posted November 4, 2013 Optical out works the same as the the other audio output devices with a couple of exceptions: 1. No volume control, use the receiver volume control. 2. Supports mono and stereo, iTunes, Safari, etc. 3. Supports XBMC/Plex 5.1 surround (DD and DTS). VLC passthrough is DD only. 4. Use Audio MIDI Setup to assign system alerts to Optical. 5. Can switch to/from Optical from/to any working audio output device with the keyboard. thank you Toleda for replying, and your work on the audio supports. the only time that the optical output red-light is on is when i select VLC. Other than that, it's not on. So it doesn't work for regular sounds output. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Freeman Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Have you selected it in System Preferences as the default output? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3square Posted November 5, 2013 Author Share Posted November 5, 2013 Have you selected it in System Preferences as the default output? I have, the red light still isn't on. Only when i use VLC as the passthrough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3square Posted November 5, 2013 Author Share Posted November 5, 2013 checked again.. and it's all good thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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