Computer sound card to TV Suround Sound Reciever

Question

I need help figuring out how to connect my Sound Blaster Live 5.1 to my dolby digital capable audio reciever. My audio reciever accepts optical in and coaxial in. The sound card I am using has a digital out port (but it is not optical, or coaxial). I went to radio shack the other day and got a convertor that allows me to plug one side into the digital out into my sound card and the other out lets me plug a coaxial cable into my reciever. After I checked digital out in the sound preferences it worked. But I was only getting stero sound. I made sure it said 6 speakers becuase My suround sound has all the speakers needed for suround sound but it is not working. Can somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong.

To summerize
Soundcard has digital out
Hometheater reciever has coaxial input
Got convertor for sound card where I can plug a coaxial cable into the digital out spot.
Reciever is only getting stero sound.
It should be getting 5.1 suround.

Please help!!!

klbf · Answer

have you set the sound blaster to use the digitial out?

dewmaster07 · Answer

sure did as quoted 'After I checked digital out in the sound preferences it worked. But I was only getting stero sound.' but I figured out what i have to do. My reciever has a 6 channel analog input. I had to get 3 Y-Cables and plug them in each 1/8 port of my sound card and put the RCA red and white cables into my reciever. It works great.

iBlue · Answer

The Cyberlink PowerDVD has a S/PDIF option in Audio settings. You have to choose that option so that the DVD player sends sound signals to the soundcard without decoding it. If the soundcard is also set for S/PDIF, the soundcard sends the sound signals undecoded to the suround receiver which then decodes them into 5.1 surround.

dewmaster07 · Answer

While thats probibly true. Technically I should have had 5.1 suround sound in every dvd/app/game i played. No matter what option I chose it didn't work. Thx anyway though.

iBlue · Answer

Here are couple of good articles on getting 5.1 surround sound from PC:

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=12170

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=11438

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