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5.1 Speaker support
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Does anyone know if recent macs support 5.1 Surround sound? I remember reading that the DVD player in 10.2 didn't, but I'd like to get some surround sound going on here. I've installed panther with the new DVD player, but I don't now if my hardware/software supports it.
OS: 10.3 DP1
Hardware: 17" imac 800 Mhz
Cheap, yet nice speakers:
logitech 5.1
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: california
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your built-in hardware doesn't support it. the new powermac G5 does natively.
your hardware can support it with the addition of a pci card (like the m-audio revolution, around $100) or a usb device (m-audio makes one too).
as for software (like the dvd player) - i'm not sure.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
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Originally posted by superlarry:
your built-in hardware doesn't support it. the new powermac G5 does natively.
your hardware can support it with the addition of a pci card (like the m-audio revolution, around $100) or a usb device (m-audio makes one too).
as for software (like the dvd player) - i'm not sure.
VLC has a special 5.1 version for X (or at least they used to, dunno if its still being updated)
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Originally posted by superlarry:
as for software (like the dvd player) - i'm not sure.
According to the latest MacAddict (sorry, no link as it's the latest issue and they haven't posted the article yet), as of OS X 10.1.5 the Apple DVD Player passed the Dolby 5.1 and DTS signals through and you could get surround sound out a DVD if you had the appropriate card. I have no personal experience with this, I'm just relaying what I read. 
It's the July issue if you want to check it out. I beleive it was in the 'Ask Us' section.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Robinson, IL
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Originally posted by -Q-:
According to the latest MacAddict (sorry, no link as it's the latest issue and they haven't posted the article yet), as of OS X 10.1.5 the Apple DVD Player passed the Dolby 5.1 and DTS signals through and you could get surround sound out a DVD if you had the appropriate card. I have no personal experience with this, I'm just relaying what I read.
It's the July issue if you want to check it out. I beleive it was in the 'Ask Us' section.
Nope, DVD player does not pass the bitstreams. Go search Apple's discussion boards or here; there's been plenty of bitching about it. The OS is capable of doing it, VLC proves that, but VLC is a hack job that's lucky to work for 5 minutes without crashing on my Cube. Here's hoping for DVD Player pass-through in Panther...
--Josh
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally posted by Gene Jockey:
Nope, DVD player does not pass the bitstreams. Go search Apple's discussion boards or here; there's been plenty of bitching about it. The OS is capable of doing it, VLC proves that, but VLC is a hack job that's lucky to work for 5 minutes without crashing on my Cube. Here's hoping for DVD Player pass-through in Panther...
--Josh
Well, what can I say. We just don't know CoreAudio well enough. do you know anyone who does have the required knowledge to fix this ?????
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Derk-Jan Hartman, Student of the University Twente (NL), developer of VLC media player
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