Home Theater Setup Question

[Unheard]

My computer has an older Hercules Game Theater XP sound card w/ breakout box. On the back of the breakout box it has a digital out port. My receiver on my home theater has a digital line in which is in use, but also a DVD 6Channel Port (same style single plug connector). It also has the option of doing the individual inputs for the 6channel setup. I'm wondering if I run a cable from the digital out on my soundcard (which I believe handles the encoding) and into the port on the back of my receiver if it will work? Any ideas?

 

[Heisenberg]

The digital out from your soundcard will work in a digital input on your receiver, yes.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Digital out should work fine for music and movies, but games will be a different story. You'll be limited to stereo output digitally and then you can apply prologic II or whatever you want to.

I looked at a review of the card and it seems like there might be some issues with the analog out as well, so that might not even really be better at all for gaming.

 

[Goosemaster]

5.1 analog out is what you will need for games and such that use proprietary sound formats...

ie, unless your card does real-time Dolby Digital encoding (a few do)you will need to run mini jack to rca adapters from
each output to the respective input on your receivers multichannel analog input section..assuming that it ahs one😱