I just purchased an ATI 9600XT All-in-wonder, and I'm greatly dissapointed with the terrible documentation and the crappy drivers. But that aside, I'm trying to make it work (when its not crashing)
I'm confused on the audio more than the video.
The card has audio out connectors, but it doesn't appear I can go directly from the ATI's mini-jack audio out to my stereo as it *requires* I plug it into my soundcard's audio in.... Fine, so I do that and then go from the S/C's line-out to the stereo system. Sloppy, but whatever.
Now my question is... can I then ALSO take the S/P DIF connection from the ATI (not the s/c) and send that directly to a different stereo with the appropriate input? I can't try it because I don't have a stereo with digital audio, but I'm thinking about it down the road.
Ultimately, what I'm hoping to achieve is this:
- The computer to reside near the home theatre, with the ATI (and S/C?) feeding the cable TV signal, DVDs, CDs, and downloaded (legally of course) music and vids to the television (vid only) and the stereo system (to be digital at some point).
- A K/B, mouse, monitor, and dinky speakers to be upstairs but still attached to the same computer for doing work on. Here, I want the ATI (and S/C?) to feed cable TV and Windows along with the audio via standard mini-jack to the speakers.
I think I got the video side down, since the ATI supports dual display, it shouldn't be a problem. My main issue is how to get seperate audio to the stereo and dinky speakers. Basically... can both the mini-jack and s/p dif outputs be used simultaneously?
On a seperate question - is anyone else having huge amounts of troubles with the software?? I re-installed windows completely after ATI's software destroyed my windows installer. I can't seem to get ATI's latest drivers to work, and the ones that came on the cd keep crashing. On top of that, the remote only seems to work half the time and I have to reboot.
I'm confused on the audio more than the video.
The card has audio out connectors, but it doesn't appear I can go directly from the ATI's mini-jack audio out to my stereo as it *requires* I plug it into my soundcard's audio in.... Fine, so I do that and then go from the S/C's line-out to the stereo system. Sloppy, but whatever.
Now my question is... can I then ALSO take the S/P DIF connection from the ATI (not the s/c) and send that directly to a different stereo with the appropriate input? I can't try it because I don't have a stereo with digital audio, but I'm thinking about it down the road.
Ultimately, what I'm hoping to achieve is this:
- The computer to reside near the home theatre, with the ATI (and S/C?) feeding the cable TV signal, DVDs, CDs, and downloaded (legally of course) music and vids to the television (vid only) and the stereo system (to be digital at some point).
- A K/B, mouse, monitor, and dinky speakers to be upstairs but still attached to the same computer for doing work on. Here, I want the ATI (and S/C?) to feed cable TV and Windows along with the audio via standard mini-jack to the speakers.
I think I got the video side down, since the ATI supports dual display, it shouldn't be a problem. My main issue is how to get seperate audio to the stereo and dinky speakers. Basically... can both the mini-jack and s/p dif outputs be used simultaneously?
On a seperate question - is anyone else having huge amounts of troubles with the software?? I re-installed windows completely after ATI's software destroyed my windows installer. I can't seem to get ATI's latest drivers to work, and the ones that came on the cd keep crashing. On top of that, the remote only seems to work half the time and I have to reboot.
Sorry, I didn't see your reply until now.
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