- Apr 20, 2012
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I'm starting to look into setting up a gaming rig to hook up to my TV - and while browsing mainboards, I realized that while dts.connect has been available in many Z170 boards, it has completely disappared in Z270 mainboards.
I looked arounda bit, and then realized, that with 8-channel LPCM over HDMI, there's indeed little reason left to compress surround sound to stream it over S/PDIF.
One question that has left me with, is whether I'll be able to stream audio over a mainboard-HDMI (which only works with an iGPU anyway) while streaming video out the GPU's HDMI. Why is this an issue? Because passing through 8-channel LPCM over HDMI-ARC to a receiver is apparently not widely supported.
Certainly, there's always the famous "a-hole" to work around, and simply plugging into the 6/8-channel onboard sound analog outputs, but haven't used analog outputs for a few years now, and I don't feel confident going back to that, especially not with onboard audio.
So, has anyone seen anything to supplant dolby digital live/dts.connect and their likes, or has otherwise helpful insightful commentary?
I looked arounda bit, and then realized, that with 8-channel LPCM over HDMI, there's indeed little reason left to compress surround sound to stream it over S/PDIF.
One question that has left me with, is whether I'll be able to stream audio over a mainboard-HDMI (which only works with an iGPU anyway) while streaming video out the GPU's HDMI. Why is this an issue? Because passing through 8-channel LPCM over HDMI-ARC to a receiver is apparently not widely supported.
Certainly, there's always the famous "a-hole" to work around, and simply plugging into the 6/8-channel onboard sound analog outputs, but haven't used analog outputs for a few years now, and I don't feel confident going back to that, especially not with onboard audio.
So, has anyone seen anything to supplant dolby digital live/dts.connect and their likes, or has otherwise helpful insightful commentary?