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Title: PCM ... only stereo ... why?
Post by: jorsan on February 22, 2014, 10:54:07 pm

Hi,
My system consists in a gigabyte H77n mobo, Intel I3 3225 cpu, and 4 gigabytes of ram all under Windows 7 ultimate (no external video/audio card). If I bistreaming the audio everything runs perfect (stereo, dolby and dts), but when I try PCM I only get sound in stereo, thats all, no dolby or DTS. would you explain to me why and help me to use the PCM option in the correct manner?. Thanks in advance

Title: Re: PCM ... only stereo ... why?
Post by: 6233638 on February 22, 2014, 11:46:07 pm

If you're bitstreaming, I assume you are connected to an AVR.
Are you connected using an S/PDIF cable (toslink/coax) or HDMI?
 
S/PDIF only supports multichannel when encoded to Dolby or DTS, and will only do stereo if you are outputting PCM.
You can use the Output Encoding in DSP Studio to encode everything to Dolby if you want multichannel sound though.
 
 
If you are connected via HDMI, make sure you are using an exclusive output (most likely WASAPI) so that Media Center can set the correct number of output channels.
 
Check that the Output Format in DSP Studio is not set to stereo.

Title: Re: PCM ... only stereo ... why?
Post by: jorsan on February 23, 2014, 07:35:02 am

thanks for the response. I forgot to mention that Im usening a AVR indeed and thru HDMI. problem fixed, the reason was tghe stereo configuration in the DSP