Re: Converting coaxial to 5.1

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From: David Stephens
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:13

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....or get a Creative Extigy external sound card that will take the digital
output and give you 5.1 surround sound!!

dave
"Chris 159" <chris@SPAMcdelectrics.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Rich" <richard@srgardner.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> > My laptop computer supports 5.1 surround sound (at least the manual says
> it
> > does), but does not have separate outputs for each of the speakers. It
> does,
> > however, have a digital coaxial output - would this output all of the
> > individual signals for each of the speakers? If so, is there any device
> that
> > could split this digital signal into the six analog signals that I need
to
> > connect a 5.1 surround sound system?
> > Thanks,
> > Rich
> >
> >
>
> a lot of pc's that support direct connection of 5.1 speakers use the mic
and
> line in sockets as the other 4 channels for the speakers. usually theres
> some form of configuration in the advanced volume properties
>
> HTH
>
>


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