[mythtv-users] EPIA MII-1000 advice needed on surround sound.

[Nick Rout]

Sarah Katherine Hayes wrote:
>> Although I used* the SPDIF output of my SP-13000 to get surround I am 
>> sure there is a setting to make the three 3.5 mm stereo plugs carry 
>> the 5.1 sound. I am not sure that is the output you are looking for 
>> (as you don't specify the number of phono connectors) but my guess is 
>> that 3x stereo to dual RCA might be what you need. Check the MII-10000 
>> manual for the jumper setting and also check what channel goes where 
>> on the surround system (I think the setup of the Epia is L/R front, 
>> L/R back and Center/Subwoofer spread across the three Speaker, Mic, 
>> Line connectors).
>>     
>
> It's Front L/R has two per speaker, Rear L/R has two per again, Sub has 
> one, Cent has one.  Looking through the manual of the Epia it states it 
> does do the 'Vinyl' audio thing,  But I can see the cabling being funky; 
> as I'll need to break the Line-Out/Line-In connectors in to 4 phono 
> jacks (L, R, 2x common ground perhaps?). The Mic socket, will, as you 
> say need a bog standard 3.5mm to 2x phono cable (of which I've an every 
> growing collection :) ).
> The manual also states 'click the Vinyl Audio icon on your desktop' so 
> I'm guessing it's a driver thing, I'd best make sure ALSA can actually 
> pull this off before I break out the soldering iron and see if the odd 
> bod cables will work.  I've found hints that the 1.0.11 in Ubuntu 7.04 
> might not be up to it so I'll give 1.0.14 a whirl and see if it gives me 
> the option.
>
> And yeah, ain't SPDIF grand? One cable, five min of tweaking and bosh... 
> all good.
>
> Sarah
>   

Yeah spdif is grand!

I think I found the answer here http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Via8233

"


      Multi-Channel Output

Some Via chips support 6 channel output through the line in, line out,
and microphone jacks. Enable 'Mic As Center/LFE' and 'Line-In As
Surround' with alsamixer to use this."


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