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Grymmegorm · 03-02-2009, 03:24 AM

Hi!
It's amazing that a high quality brand of soundcards like Creative are so totally hopeless to configure to let through a clean digital signal.

I have two Audigy sound cards with one configured to bypass most SPDIF signals. The one used in analogu mode isn't more difficult than mounting the card, installing the driver but the HTPC one gives me the shivers evereytime I'm about to reinstall.

To handle the SPDIF bypass Audigy needs a little program called SPDIFer. This program gives you better control of the signal but still not total control. When you want to watch movies with surround sound you also need codec's. This is where the trouble begins. In my case it's in the use of Media Player 11 and K-Lite codec pack together with SPDIFer. Last night I spent 4 hours to have my soundcard set up to handle MP3's, WAV's, AVI's, MKV's and DVD's properly.

With SPDIFer you tick in to bypass Dolby Digital, DTS and DVD. Then you should probably be home free...

Good luck!

03-02-2009, 03:24 AM	#8 (permalink)
Grymmegorm Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1 OS: XP pro	Re: Surround sound with Audigy SPDIF digital out Hi! It's amazing that a high quality brand of soundcards like Creative are so totally hopeless to configure to let through a clean digital signal. I have two Audigy sound cards with one configured to bypass most SPDIF signals. The one used in analogu mode isn't more difficult than mounting the card, installing the driver but the HTPC one gives me the shivers evereytime I'm about to reinstall. To handle the SPDIF bypass Audigy needs a little program called SPDIFer. This program gives you better control of the signal but still not total control. When you want to watch movies with surround sound you also need codec's. This is where the trouble begins. In my case it's in the use of Media Player 11 and K-Lite codec pack together with SPDIFer. Last night I spent 4 hours to have my soundcard set up to handle MP3's, WAV's, AVI's, MKV's and DVD's properly. With SPDIFer you tick in to bypass Dolby Digital, DTS and DVD. Then you should probably be home free... Good luck!