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Need a USB soundcard for my incomming NUC - Dennisreneholm - 2015-02-11
Hi.
My sound system is a Logitech Z-5500, which i have currently hooked up to my TV via Optical SPDIF and my current HTPC via COAX.
The NUC does not COAX output, so i need a USB soundcard that does, and that card needs to be able to run i Kodibuntu.
I've been looking at this card, it's affordable, and gives me the output i need, will it work or do i need to buy something else?
http://www.asus.com/dk/Sound_Cards/Xonar_U5/
i need it to be able to pass through DD, DTS and ACC 5,1 sound to my Z-5500
RE: Need a USB soundcard for my incomming NUC - fritsch - 2015-02-12
That all depends on your TV - to be cooperative. Most TVs only can passthrough AC3 (via hdmi input to the optical out) if you are lucky, they will just be silent when doing DTS. AAC 5.1 is not passthrough format. To play that with 6 channels on SPDIF it needs reencoding to AC3 (kodi can do that on the fly).
I would attach that sound system directly to the nuc.
RE: Need a USB soundcard for my incomming NUC - Dennisreneholm - 2015-02-12
My sound system is a Logitech Z-5500, which i have currently hooked up to my TV via Optical SPDIF and my current HTPC via COAX.
I never wrote that it's running through the TV.
I have however found a way to use Kodi to resample ACC 5.1 sound to Dolby, and my problems i had with me HDMI extractor has been solved, so i do not need a soundcard afterall
RE: Need a USB soundcard for my incomming NUC - fritsch - 2015-02-12
Quote:My sound system is a Logitech Z-5500, which i have currently hooked up to my TV via Optical SPDIF ...
Not sure ...
Set speakers to 2.0, enable AC3 transcode and disable DTS. That should do what you want.
RE: Need a USB soundcard for my incomming NUC - Dennisreneholm - 2015-02-17
It did fritsch, and it solved my problems!
Case closed
RE: Need a USB soundcard for my incomming NUC - wsnipex - 2015-02-17
the Z-5500 supports DTS iirc