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SB Live and AC3 passthrough in Windows 2000

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Adrian Tung

Golden Member
I'm not sure if this is already old news, but if you happen to have PowerDVD 3.0, you can get AC3 passthrough via a "hack" (for a lack of better word) from this site:
http://zap.to/tristan (I got the link from ALive!).

I've already tried it on my SB Live 5.1 and it works great, but I had to use the analog audio cables to get 5.1 to work (I was using a combination of FPS2000 with digital DIN for front and surround, and analog 2.1 speakers for center).


🙂atwl
 
I'm confused, will this allow me to use SPDIF out to my CSW DTT2500 speakers? If not, what good will this do?
 
I heard vague rumors of it being enabled in SP2 but I have not tried it since it is still beta.
 
Lore:
There are two patches available at the site, one for the standard SB Live and the other for the SB Live 5.1. I suppose the patch for the SB Live allows you to use SPDIF for your DTT2500, but I have no way of verifying that because I'm using the 5.1 card. Anyway, the patch allows itself to be uninstalled (although I haven't tested that "feature" yet).

Auric:
I've heard from ALive that SP2 is supposed to fix AC3 passthrough too, but according to ALive AC3 is not listed among the SP2 fixes.


🙂atwl
 
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