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    W2V: How to make Media Center use rear channels for TV audio?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by lexee, Sep 27, 2005.

  1. lexee

    lexee Notebook Enthusiast

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    Since it has been established that in order to get somewhat decent audio in headphones on W2V you need to connect them to "surround" jack and make sure your software outputs audio to the rear channels, I have been trying to do exactly that in Media Center, so that I could watch TV and listen to audio in my headphones.

    But the problem is, Media Center won't output TV audio to the rear channels for me. It has an option in settings to use 5.1 speaker setup, and when I test that option, it does in fact play the test sound in my headphones as expected, but when I later go to Live TV, there is no sound. I guess that's because even if you enable the said option, it's used only when the underlying source actually carries all those 5 channels, and TV audio signal being just plain old stereo is apparently still directed only to the front, without being multiplexed to the rear..

    So ultimately, the only way I can watch TV and listen in headphones is if I connect them to the "front" jack, in which case I get sucky audio. By the way if I record a show and then watch it in WMP, it plays audio in rear channels too - just like it plays mp3s and other media files.

    Has anybody else tried to extract good quality audio signal from TV on their W2V?
     
    lexee, Sep 27, 2005
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