"5.1 channel through analog?"<br><br>you can output as many channels through analog as you want, so long as you have enough ports. 5.1 channels via analog would require 6 RCA cables. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Jan 15, 2008 5:20 PM, Seth Daniel <<a href="mailto:mythtv.org@sethdaniel.org">mythtv.org@sethdaniel.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:09:39PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>> On 01/10/2008 05:36 PM, Seth Daniel wrote:<br>> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:31:39PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>> ><br>> >> On 01/10/2008 05:07 PM, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
<br>> >><br>> >>> Back when my home theatre PC was running windows, I bought DVD player<br>> >>> software that would output 7.1 channels to my amp (8 discrete channels).<br>> >>> Although I'm very happy with Myth, I'm wondering if I've given up a nice
<br>> >>> feature....<br>> >>><br>> >>> Does Myth's DVD player decode 8 discrete channels? I've confirmed using<br>> >>> speaker-test that my 8 channels are working, but movies like Gladiator
<br>> >>> (which are in DTS 6.1) don't seem to provide anything beyond 2 channels in<br>> >>> myth.<br>> >>><br>> >> <a href="http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1104" target="_blank">
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1104</a><br>> > Reading this ticket was interesting, but I don't get it. How would such<br>> > a setup be...setup? I can do 7.1 now if I simply pass-thru to my sound<br>
> > card (at least I think I can) and my receiver can deal with it. So what<br>> > does the work this ticket describes do? Can someone explain it, please?<br>><br>> Allows 5.1-channel audio output through analog (or
5.1-channel<br>> re-encoding for timestretch). Without the patch, you have 2 choices,<br>> 2-channel analog and/or AC-3/DTS passthrough.<br><br>5.1 channel through analog? I must really be out of it. When I think
<br>of analog I think of 'stereo' (i.e. red/white RCA jacks). Assuming I'm<br>thinking of the right thing I wasn't even aware that you could do<br>anything other than 2 channel audio with them. I've simply been using
<br>the coax/optical pass-thru for so long I never even thought twice about<br>it.<br><br>So would this would be similar to the PCM output options seen on a lot<br>of DVD players?<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>seth /\
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