Excuse the vague thread title. So anyway, I have a surround sound system (I'm pretty sure it's 5.1), and I'm trying to get it to work through with my PC. Currently it's connect through a normal Red/Yellow/White AV cable (minus the video) that turns into an Auxiliary cable on the other end and plugs into my PC. Through this system on one speaker and the sub woofer works. The other 4 speakers are silent.
(Sorry for the blurry quality. It was taken with a cell phone camera).
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Those are the ports on the back on the surround sound system (there's a two Red/White Auxiliary to the left, and I'm currently plugged into Aux one which only enables on speaker and the sub).
My Mobo has the standard Aux In, Mic in, and whatever the fuck the blue one does. It also has the Orange/Black/Grey ports, which I also don't know what they are for. I have pretty much every cable known to man in a box in my closet, so are there any solutions to get all of my speakers to work with my PC?
On my X540 set I have the green,orange,black going to my sound card for my 5.1 to work.
Orange is for the sub green for the front speakers and black for the rear channels.
Pretty sure that's how it works. Not sure on how to get AUX to work with computer 5.1
To get surround sound (from best to worst):
If your receiver has 5.1 analog inputs, use three 3.5mm to RCA adapters from your computer to the receiver.
The picture shows that your receiver has a coaxial digital input. If your sound card can encode dolby digital or DTS in realtime, then simply run one RCA cable from the digital output on your PC to the receiver.
If your sound card can encode dolby pro logic II in realtime, use a single 3.5mm to RCA cable and set your receiver to use pro logic (usually Pro Logic II movie mode).
[QUOTE=DrDevin;23927847]To get surround sound (from best to worst):
The picture shows that your receiver has a coaxial digital input. If your sound card can encode dolby digital or DTS in realtime, then simply run one RCA cable from the digital output on your PC to the receiver.
If your sound card can encode dolby pro logic II in realtime, use a single 3.5mm to RCA cable and set your receiver to use pro logic (usually Pro Logic II movie mode).[/QUOTE]
These, can someone explain a little more? I don't understand these last two. I know what RCA means, and I have a coaxial but I don't know what its for.
[QUOTE=Wolverunder;23965723]These, can someone explain a little more? I don't understand these last two. I know what RCA means, and I have a coaxial but I don't know what its for.[/QUOTE]
Coaxial uses a normal RCA cable, but its completely digital. So it allows you to send a Dolby Digital signal to your surround sound. Its what our DVD player uses with our surround amplifier in our living room (and was setup improperly by my father to use Pro Logic instead of 5.1 for 6 years :doh:).
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