Enable 5.1 audio from ATI Radeon HD5850 HDMI out

[Oorja]

I want to get the 5.1 surround sound in my Home theatre TV system. I want to connect it to the HD5850 HDMI. When I connected I can get only output in stereo. Is there anything I can do to change it and get the proper 5.1 surround sound from HDMI?

[The$Tourist]

You had not written, whether there is an audio receiver or not. The problem might be with your connection option that detects Windows to TV as the primary audio output device and since the only stereo sound is transmitted. Windows cannot recognize the TV as the primary device, etc. with a 5-1 receiver is connected, but recognizes only the stereo output of the TV. When either live with it or buy a HDMI receiver and connect the graphics card directly to the HDMI receiver.

Or you can connect the sound card of your PC, where the digital outputs, with your receiver. It would also be a way without having to buy a new receiver.

[Izna]

The Radeon-HD4K/HD5K-Series can also spend PCM 5.1 and PCM 7.1, should transmit multi-channel sound without recoding games over HDMI. The receiver must hold multi-channel PCM support. The Ion chipset from Nvidia dominates the way and multi-channel PCM over HDMI.

[Upendra]

Whenever you play a DVD or any tracks which is encoded in dolby digital / Dolby DTS, can you get 5.1 audio?

For games and other things in your computer, you should have audio stream encoded to DTS otherwise you will only get the stereo audio out. Otherwise you might take look into the dedicated sound card for this, which you can connect to the ATI card spidif input, so that you can pass the audio signal to the HDMI output.

[Innocent User]

The problem comes to multi-channel PCM. Say all 5.1 channels are online! But Winamp recognizes only 2.0 are delivered in the song, are logically distributed only 2.0. With this you can do nothing here! That would only go if there is no native 5.1 signal support.

[IkhyThed]

With a driver, it has nothing to do here. We're talking about a complete digital processing of audio data over HDMI. The issue occurs exclusively via the HDMI. Thus logically everything is working properly configured for 5.1 or 7.1. Thus, all the canals in separate multi-channel PCM output on Windows. Your solution might work only when we configure Windows to 2.0, and then set the AVR differently. But this is not a satisfactory solution because it has no desire to change for films and audio playback to always boxing profile.

[little-Jacqueline]

The HDMI interface provides enough bandwidth to simultaneously transmit uncompressed image and sound at up to 7.1 sound (multichannel PCM). Thus, it is for movies not bad if the software player decodes the DD signal, because it also comes in uncompressed 5.1 sound. In games DDL and DTSC are unnecessary. Without the encoders and up to 7.1 audio is possible. Furthermore, only supports HDMI (from 1.3), the new HD sound formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD.

[Alondra]

The HD 5000 series cards now support HDMI 1.3 and PAP (Protected Audio Path), which finally brought about chaining, the HD sound, without the copy protection that sparks between them. With the Radeon HD 6000 series brings AMD / ATI integrated its cards on the cutting edge of technology and what it is in the development of the HD 5000 series did not exist: HDMI 1.4a