Alienware m17x R4 Digital Out question

For a long time, I had a problem with my digital output. I can't really 5.1 audio on my computer even when it is plugged into my audio receiver. I have the Sound Blaster Recon 3Di, but there is no option to set the DTS or the sound of doby. If I go to playback devices and click on properties, I test Dolby digital, and I hear all the speakers work. But the sound-blaster software does not work unless I chose to play stereo sound to the digital way. Can I get the front speakers. 5.1 selected with the sound-blaster software give me only the front speakers. It seems that it is only play stereo no matter what camera I have set for the sound, speakers, digital output or my TV.

I guess that the sound blaster software has no opportunity to tell pilots to use 5.1 instead of stereo. I use Windows 8.1, but I think that it does the same thing, even when I was with Windows 7. In the channel mixer adjustment menu, it shows only 2 channels for the digital output. I wonder if it's a driver issue or a setting in windows that I need to fix. Any ideas?

Hello. This section of the forum deals mainly with computers Dell laptops with Realtek, IDT and Conexant audio. Only the Alienwares have Creative sound cards, so I don't know much about what you can do with this hardware/software. There is a section called the Alienware Club. If you post here tell them that you posted already here while they just refer.

Having said that, here's what I 'think' goes with your sound on what I know about the other Dell laptops. The Quick Installation Guide for your model of watch you have 3 Sockets audio, all capable of output to speakers when it is configured to do this. In other words, the mic socket can become an extra speaker output jack. This means that you should have the ability to setup your laptop for a 5.1 speaker system surround and attaching the cables of 3 speaker (of an analog 5.1 amplified speaker system) for the 3 Sockets (front, rear, Center / LF). You must have a source that has a surround sound, like a dvd movie. I don't know if your creation can simulate surround sound when the source itself is only stereo.

On the s/pdif connection. S/pdif is a 2 channel protocol. When there are additional channels from a source that contains a sound surround, they are coded into the main stereo signal. The receiving device must be capable of decoding the surround channels and transmitting them to the speakers.

When you use 3 analog computer Sockets, the computer performs the decoding, but when you use the s/pdif output computer does not because he would not be able to get additional channels decoded, as s/pdif carries only 2 channels. To the best of my knowledge, except for the selection of s/pdif to be the default playback device, there is no other software needed adjustment. Surround channels (if present in the source) will be included in the primary s/pdif signal and after that it is at the receiver. And if the source material does not contain the surround channels, then this is the receiving device to have the ability to simulate the if you want to hear through the other loudspeakers.

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