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More => Old Versions => Media Center 13 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: jpataylor on February 27, 2009, 10:17:43 am
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Hi all,
I'm running MC13 with a SB Audigy 5.1 sound card, an SB X-FI Extreme Audio sound card and Vacard. At the moment I have 4 zones - one to Vacard1, 1 to the Audigy and 2 to the X-Fi. Everything was running ok using Direct Sound except thayt I could only access C+LFE and RR+RL on the X-Fi then suddenly everything played out of the default card (Audigy) no matter where it was supposed to play! After trying various things to no avail I re-installed MC13 and now everything seems to be working fine except that if I try to route sound to SR+SL or RR+RL on the X-Fi without routing anything to FR+FL it comes out of FR+FL instead! I've tried using direct sound and ASIO4all and have the same issue with both. It's not a problem at the moment because I don't need to use all of the channels but I am hoping to expand at some point. I'm guessing it's a driver issue, possibly even an intentional feature of the card, but if anybody has any experience or suggestions I would appreciate your help.
On a separate point there is no option to direct sound to SR+SL in MC13 for the 7.1 card - is this because it has not been designed to do it?
Thanks,
J
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I haven't seen any replies to this yet; do you know if MC12 supports the 7.1 card?
am trying to create a multi-zone setup and have 2 7.1 cards on the system
was hoping to get at least 6 zones out of it
1 5.1
5 2-speaker zones
however MC13 only recognizes each card as a 5.1 card -- is there a fix on the horizon?
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This thread (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=48706.msg334107#msg334107) might help.
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thank you for the link -- but the issue is that surround left and surround right do not show up in the drop down box;
right now i can create 3 zones using a 7.1 sound card (the same that I could create with a 5.1 sound card) -- I can't create the 4th zone since SR and SL don't show up as options in the drop down.
the 3 zones work perfectly -- i am using MC with netremote and it is a pretty close to ideal solution (short of going all out with multizone hardware keypads, etc). however i would like to use all 8 channels if possible as it would save me having to buy another sound card.
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In case other people are wondering; I was able to get the other zones created.
Instead of using DirectSound; I downloaded ASIO4ALL and used that to control the integrated soundcard
this allowed me to create 4 zones out of the 7.1 integrated card
and create another zone from the previously unused rear surround channels on the asus sound card