Are you talking about using the 1/8" (headphone-style) ports built into the motherboard on the back of your PC tower? I am an audio engineer, always trying to learn more about surround sound, and fr...
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Are you talking about using the 1/8" (headphone-style) ports built into the motherboard on the back of your PC tower? I am an audio engineer, always trying to learn more about surround sound, and frankly I have no idea what that protocol is officially called or if it utilizes PCM, Dolby, DTS, let's you pick, or what. I would be so curious to know; if anyone who does sees this I hope they reply. To my knowledge, optical actually is capable of carrying up to 7.1 PCM. I'm using a Sound Blaster X3 and trying to figure out how to get it to output PCM like it says it can in the ads. Once I hooked up optical to my AVR from the X3 it took me a few minutes of random button pressing and/or holding to make it produce sound, so I probably just have to keep digging through X3 manuals, forums, the sound card's proprietary software app, etc. I don't know, maybe you figured it out by now or tried something different. I just wanted to put my surround sound question out there and offer my knowledge that there shouldn't be a problem with optical cables running PCM (I'm pretty sure I accomplished this on a friend's home theater setup) - the problem would probably be somewhere in the audio hardware's software settings. Or maybe the option isn't there. Or maybe it's supposed to be automatic but isn't smart enough to sync with Stadia. Just gotta keep digging...
