Does the SB Live! 24bit External support AC3 and DTS pass-throuht on its SPDIF interfac

Question

I know this card does not support hardware decode of AC3 & DTS, but does it has the capability to pass throuht the AC3/DTS signal to a external home theatre system ? Or only support PCM signal on it ?
Thanks,

Answer 1

Thannks for your reply. The problem occurs when trying to play DTS audio CD, not DVD Audio. I've tried to play DTS audio both from the original DTS audio CD and from saved to the hard disk DTS audio tracks. In both cases the players ( Media Player Classic, WinDVD6, PowerDVD, JetAudio ) are configured to use S/PDIF, and the result is either noise or silence. When a player able to decode DTS is configured to play through soundcard's speakers then the sound is decoded and sent to the receiver as PCM and played as stereo. I would like to use the AV-Recei'ver as decoder and amplifier ( not only amplifier ), because of two reasons:. The?signal sent to the receiver as DTS audio is decoded and played as 5. channel audio. This is? exactly the same as playing DTS audio CD on the conventional DVD Player, connected to the AV receiver?through?the digital output. 2. The quality of the AV-Recei'ver is greater than the quality of the SondBlaster Li've! 24bit External, so it's much better to send digital signal to the receiver and leave it to decode, convert to analog and amplify the sound signal. The most interesting thing is that the same configuration containing?the software player, the SB Li've! and the AV Recei'ver connected through the S/PDIF recognizes, decodes and plays correctly the DTS/DD sound of DVD-Video titles played on the computer ... !?! :smileysurprised: