Media Central 2.0 and Intel Mini Dual

Good afternoon.
I'm getting my mini set up to integrate into my home theater.
If I connect my mini to my A/V Receiver with a DVI-HDMI cable, then connect the audio to my A/V receiver with a mini TOS-Link cable, will this work for getting picture and sound using Media Central? I'm asking this because of the following on the Media Central site......
I'd like to see my movies and my DVDs with AC3-passthrough on my theatre system. Is this possible?
Currently MediaCentral is not able to stream the audio output to the optical audio-out interface (S/PDIF). We are working on enabling this in a future release.
Thanks for the help.

Theoretically this should work but currently Media Central does not pass through Dolby Digital or DTS.

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