Question for P6N SLI Platinum User : Does ALC888 support Dolby Digital Encoding?

Hello to all P6N SLI Platinum users here,
I have one question regarding Dolby Digital Encoding support on this motherboard. By default, ALC888 does not support Dolby Digital Encoding. But I am still curious. Can you please check on your motherboard, does it support Dolby Digital encoding or DTS Live Connect output to SPDIF? (You may check it by Realtek HD Audio Manager control panel. If there exist such setting option, it means it does support.)
The reason I ask this is I am thinking to switch from 975X Platinum to this board, I am unable to try this myself here as it requires me to reinstall my OS in order to load to WinXP
Thanks in advance.

have a look here:
http://en.allexperts.com/e/d/do/dolby_digital.htm
according to info there its support Dolby Digital Live

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( My system specs are in the signature )
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*** Disabling C1E (needed when overclocking) ***
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Hockeyboy,please read the moan guide for posting guidelines.
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Main purpose for those betas, fix for slowdown issue when using 4GB system memory.
beta BIOS for P6N SLI Platinum ver V1.32:
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Attachment name: P6N SLI Platinum BIOS 1.32.zip
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Attachment name: P6N SLI-FI BIOS 2.22.zip
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Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 29-April-07, 00:17:22
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Attachment name: P6N SLI Platinum BIOS 1.32.zip
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Look here:
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you have already mentioned yourself, that you have an OEM-Board, not an MSI-Retail Board. MSI does not provide end-user support for OEM products, as this is the responsability of the OEM Vendor who is selling OEM Boards under a different name. Also, this forum will not support OEM Products and that is why I will have to close this thread.
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Windows 7 64bit (However chances are if any solution works for Windows Vista 64bit, it WILL work for Windows 7, so don't be shy about any solutions you may have)
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Oh yeah, i'm not sure which BIOS i'm using, however I don't recall ever flashing it so i would assume its the one that it was shipped with.
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Quote from: DaLoona on 16-August-09, 21:54:16
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