ALC882 Integrated Audio

[syyid]

Hi
I have a motherboard with an integrated ALC882 chipset. When I got the motherbaord I had naively presumed 882 =882D and i'll get dolby digital output. I looked around the web and saw the 882D/882M/882H mentioned but not a plain 882. Also from some sites I read the difference was in the codec? I presume when they say this they're referring to the hardware itself and not any possible software updates?.

In essense my question is can get the 882 be software updated to 882D? Also 882M mentions multi-room streaming whats that? (both digital and analog out?)
The only relevant info I found was http://dolby.com/consumer/pc/pcee2.html#MS

 

[Peter]

The ALC882 _is_ the codec. The sound engine is provided by the chipset.

ALC is Realtek's range of audio codecs. So why not check with the manufacturer ...

http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=2005041

There you go:

ALC882D features Dolby® Digital Live output for consumer equipment
ALC882H features Dolby® Home Theater software
ALC882M features Dolby® Master Studio software

 

[syyid]

Thanks for the reply Peter. I've been to the manufacturer's site. Just wanted to be sure that I was understanding it right that all three are different products and not a result of different drivers/software bundled etc. Also some of the differences are detailed on the link i had in my original post but there was any detailed spec document that I could look up

 

[Peter]

Looks to me like the D is a different product, and the rest is software bundles.