S/PDIF to Optical/Coxial Connector Required

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Hi,

I have to connect my Home Theater system to my PC.
Since I already have a S/PDIF out on my mobo so I don't think I need to buy a Sound Card.

I have a found a connector for it, but don't know where I could buy it in Bangalore. Could anyone help me out.

GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Accessory

The item is S/N:12CR1-1SPOUT-03R (Last product under Bracket)

DO you have any idea where I could get it?
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Just note that if you are using onboard audio like the Realtek HD, you will only get stereo via digital out. You won't get 5.1 audio. For getting 5.1 audio via digital, you will have to buy a separate sound card that supports it.
 
But the mobo's Realtek supports 5.1 through the analouge outputs also. In that case, the digital one also should be 5.1. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Lord Nemesis said:
Just note that if you are using onboard audio like the Realtek HD, you will only get stereo via digital out. You won't get 5.1 audio. For getting 5.1 audio via digital, you will have to buy a separate sound card that supports it.
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Its not true i have realtek HD onboard souncard and it supports Dolby digital and dts 5.1 through Toslink.
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ysrathore said:
But the mobo's Realtek supports 5.1 through the analouge outputs also. In that case, the digital one also should be 5.1. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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No. My Gigabyte X48-DQ6 has 7.1 Analog, but supports only stereo over Toslink. You cant try googling for the same. Trust me, I was myself disappointed to find that.

yadusaiyan said:
Its not true i have realtek HD onboard souncard and it supports Dolby digital and dts 5.1 through Toslink.

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Some versions of Realtek HD (depending on how the motherboard manufacturer licensed it), support DDL and DTS when the source itself is encoded in the same format like for example a DVD and you are using a compatible media player like PowerDVD. For all other media you will still get stereo. There will be no encoding into 5.1 like you get with analog. So even in this case DDL and DTS support is optional and and pretty restrictive.
 
aprt from this, I need a Serial Header on my mobo to Serial Port Connector....Anybody know where to get it from??

& yeah...bump............
 
Lord Nemesis said:
No. My Gigabyte X48-DQ6 has 7.1 Analog, but supports only stereo over Toslink. You cant try googling for the same. Trust me, I was myself disappointed to find that.

Some versions of Realtek HD (depending on how the motherboard manufacturer licensed it), support DDL and DTS when the source itself is encoded in the same format like for example a DVD and you are using a compatible media player like PowerDVD. For all other media you will still get stereo. There will be no encoding into 5.1 like you get with analog. So even in this case DDL and DTS support is optional and and pretty restrictive.
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@Lord Nemesis: Sorry to inform sire, dint expect this FUD coming from you :P.

Now the fun apart, the TOSLINK out on your mobo has a very decent audio implementation. Its also got DTS connect which can transcode any audio stream you throw at it to a DTS sream. And yeah though its not multichannel LPCM it still serves mighty well for moveis and games.

So if you have a receiver/speaker package like the Z5500 which takes DTS you'd definitely get surround sound on that.

The toslink is just a mode to transport signals from one point to the other, its the source, the compression and the codec used that determines what kinda audio to expect (stereo or surround).

Double click on the audio manager and look at the big oval DTS connect button , click it and play any surround sound audio track. Getting surround outta that peach of a board should be as easy as that.

@OP: Try Cranky's guide for creating a DYI spdif out from the MOBO's spdif header and you should be good to go. Your board may not have the uber cool DDLive or DTS Connect as Lord's but fret not AC3Filter does precisely the same job for you albeit in a software way. :)
 
^Which's why I still reckon the onboard audio if the user's using the coaxial/optical out on his/her motherboard. The digital signal's merely passed to the DAC of the AVR or the speakers itself.
 
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