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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
5.1 surround from Mac Mini
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<blockquote data-quote="aeiou" data-source="post: 732237" data-attributes="member: 12382"><p>The mac mini is probably just sending the raw data over the optical connection. So if you are playing a source that has 5.1 (dvd), you will get it, but it wont upsample a 2 channel source (music). There are some soundcards on the PC side with Dolby Digital Live and the such that will do this, but the mini wont do it. All is not lost, though. There should be a setting on your reciever to upsample to 5.1. It wont be like "real" 5.1, but you should be a able to get sound coming from all speakers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aeiou, post: 732237, member: 12382"] The mac mini is probably just sending the raw data over the optical connection. So if you are playing a source that has 5.1 (dvd), you will get it, but it wont upsample a 2 channel source (music). There are some soundcards on the PC side with Dolby Digital Live and the such that will do this, but the mini wont do it. All is not lost, though. There should be a setting on your reciever to upsample to 5.1. It wont be like "real" 5.1, but you should be a able to get sound coming from all speakers. [/QUOTE]
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