notebook & AC3

mavec · Oct 20, 2003, 08:40 AM

hello!

I'm about to buy a laptop-computer and I wonder about audio-out and the possibility to get AC3 sound from the laptop to the decoder.. as it would be nice to watch DivX movies with good sound..
so if the laptop has an ordinary soundcard - as I haven't found any laptop that would specifically have a 5.1 soundcard or something - would it be possible to get AC3 sound? ..
uh.. my english isn't working too well this early in the morning but hopefully someone understands

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well, nothing else right now..
thanks!

DriveEuro · Oct 20, 2003, 02:40 PM

Some notebooks (few) have optical outputs which would let you connect it to a reciever that could decode it.

Malus · Oct 22, 2003, 03:48 AM

You might just have to get a USB soundcard. M-audio has a nice one (Sonica Theater).

SEK · Nov 8, 2004, 04:36 PM

Hi,
I´ve got an Acer Aspire 1300 with a normal Stereo Sound Card. Is it really not possible without an external USB 5.1 Sound Card to output a Dolby Digital Stream to an external receiver? If Yes, why not? The Sound Card just doesn´t encode anything...

Samir · Nov 8, 2004, 05:34 PM

Check Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo series, most of them has combined stereo/optical output, and you can send nice quality 48KHz/16bit stereo or even 5.1 AC3 to the external decoder/amplifier...

**dj_stick** · Nov 8, 2004, 07:43 PM

you have to make sure that any soundcard with toslink/spdif out also encodes in AC-3, other wise it will be a stereo source

Oct 20, 2003, 08:40 AM	#1
mavec DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 73 Rep Power: 0	notebook & AC3 hello! I'm about to buy a laptop-computer and I wonder about audio-out and the possibility to get AC3 sound from the laptop to the decoder.. as it would be nice to watch DivX movies with good sound.. so if the laptop has an ordinary soundcard - as I haven't found any laptop that would specifically have a 5.1 soundcard or something - would it be possible to get AC3 sound? .. uh.. my english isn't working too well this early in the morning but hopefully someone understands .. well, nothing else right now.. thanks!

Oct 20, 2003, 02:40 PM	#2
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Oct 22, 2003, 03:48 AM	#3
Malus BSD SMASH! Join Date: May 2002 Location: A rabbit hole. . . Posts: 1,170 Rep Power: 0	You might just have to get a USB soundcard. M-audio has a nice one (Sonica Theater). __________________ quad (FreeBSD/amd64 8-CURRENT): Intel Q6600 - Asus P5E-VM HDMI - 2x2 GB Kingston PC6400 DDR2 Ram - Seagate 320GB 7200RPM HD - 2xSeagate 1TB 7200RPM HD in RAID 1 via ZFS - Lite-On 20x DVD Multi Recorder - Coolermaster Centurion 5 router (FreeBSD/amd64 8-CURRENT): Intel E4500 - Intel D945GCNL - 2 GB PC6400 Mushkin Ram - Lite-On 48x24x48x16 - Seagate 320GB 7200RPM HD - Silverstone SST-SG02-F wanderer (FreeBSD/i386 7-CURRENT): Lenovo Thinkpad T61p mini (OS X 10.5): Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.8Ghz, 4 GB Mushkin PC5400 Ram - Headroom MicroDAC Portable sound: Rockboxed iPod Video -> Westone UM2's Not-So-Portable Sound: Headroon MicroDAC -> Singlepower PPX3-SLAM -> Grado RS-1's or Beyerdynamic DT-880's Very-Not-Portable-Sound: Squeezebox v3 -> Denon AVR-1507 -> B&W 683's & Sunfire HRS-10

Nov 8, 2004, 05:34 PM	#5
Samir kX Lover Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 520 Rep Power: 0	Check Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo series, most of them has combined stereo/optical output, and you can send nice quality 48KHz/16bit stereo or even 5.1 AC3 to the external decoder/amplifier... __________________ MU3NKA 3A HAPO6!

Nov 8, 2004, 04:36 PM	#4
SEK DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Hi, I´ve got an Acer Aspire 1300 with a normal Stereo Sound Card. Is it really not possible without an external USB 5.1 Sound Card to output a Dolby Digital Stream to an external receiver? If Yes, why not? The Sound Card just doesn´t encode anything...