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    Spdif of 1810T: optical or coaxial?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by zooster, Oct 29, 2010.

  1. zooster

    zooster Notebook Evangelist

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    I've never used it, but now I need a digital multichannel output and I was wondering what kind of spdif connector is the one embedded in the 1810T, optical or coaxial?
     
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    I'm pretty sure it's optical. The headphone jack doubles as SPDIF, IIRC.

    Cheers,
    Kermee
     
    Kermee, Oct 29, 2010
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    The SPDIF output on my 6920G is optical; you'll need a mini-TOSLINK cable or adapter to fit it properly into the headphones jack and activate the LED.
     
    TehSuigi, Oct 30, 2010
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    Thanks...!
     
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    Guys finally with the minitoslink adaptor I could manage to listen to multichannel output from 1810t. But with my disappointment it works only with ac3 encoded movies, since my amplifier doesn't support aac 5.1 format. Unfortunately many of my movies are mp4 with aac codec.
    Do you guys know a way to transcode on the fly an aac 5.1 source to ac3 output through spdif?
     
    zooster, Nov 3, 2010
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    Actually, yes! Your system should be equipped with Dolby Digital Live 5.1, which will encode any audio from your system to a 640kbps AC3 stream in real-time, and transit that via S/PDIF.
    Right-click on your Volume icon, and pick Playback devices. Then, double-click on your Digital Output to open the properties window, tab over to Advanced, and select Dolby Digital Live 5.1 from the drop-down menu.
     
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    I don't think my system (the one in signature) is equipped with Dolby Digital Live 5.1. In advanced tab of Digital output there is only 2 channel format and in supported format there is only dts, dolby digital and wma pro audio...
     
    zooster, Nov 4, 2010
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    Darn.
    In that case, I'd look into transcoding the AAC multi-channel into AC3 before playback using something like eAC3to or what-have-you.
     
    TehSuigi, Nov 4, 2010
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