Questions tagged [5.1]
A common name for six channel surround sound audio systems (five full bandwidth channels and one low-frequency effects channel).
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Motherboard only has two AUX jacks - but website says it support 5.1
It was kinda hard to google since most keywords are too common haha
Sorry in advanced if it's common knoledge; Didn't had to work with other motherboards for about 7 years now 😅
I'm about to buy a ...
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I need some help connecting a 5.1 audio system to my laptop
I purchased a Panasonic SC-PT470 5.1 channel stereo system. I am trying to connect it to my Win11 laptop, a Lenovo Ideapad 320-15ISK but I am not even sure if the way I've set it up will work.
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How can I properly normalise surround audio to stereo(2 channels)
This question has been asked before but my query is different and more specific. In MPV player I use this command af=format=channels=stereo,dynaudnorm which is like live normalising the audio. However,...
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Surround sound from stereo software
I just set a 5.1 surround setup on my Windows 11 PC only to find that most softwares do not support it and just output a stereo signal.
I'm currently using VoiceMeeter, which allows me to enable the ...
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ffmpeg mixing up audio channels
Resubmitting because no one answered the question:
I've recently noticed that when I encode a movie to h265 with aac 5.1 audio (probably will do the same on 7.1 too) the output had the forward channel ...
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What is the recommended way to downmix 5.1 or 7.1 to 2.1?
I've been trying to downmix a 5.1 DTS HD-MA (specifically arranged as C L R Ls Rs LFE) track into 2.1 (with LFE), but I'm not sure of the recommended/standard way that doesn't mess up the audio.
I ...
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Enable 5.1 Sound in Windows
I have connected my MatePro Laptop to my Panasonic TV which is connected to Panasonic Home Cinema by HTML cable. However, the sound is placed only in Stereo format and I cannot select 5.1 channel ...
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FFmpeg - Converting mkv to mp4 with surround sound
I've searched many posts about this topic, and still cant get this done.
To be exact, I'm trying to convert .mkv file with subtitles and surround sound to .mp4 with embedded subtitles and with as hi ...
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How to use multiple audio devices as a surround?
First - there's a lot of questions asking how to playback audio stream through multiple devices, and this is not the goal of this project.
With that out of the way - the real goal is to use multiple ...
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Theatron Agrippa unable to connect 5.1
I’m trying to configure a Theatron Agrippa with a 5.1 configuration. The thing is that I don’t have a 5.1 speaker system available at the time, but my Enterprise needs to test 5.1 works although, so ...
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How to get surround sound speakers working "speaker-fill-style" with SB 5.1 VX
I have a 5.1 soundsystem connected to a "SB 5.1 vx" soundcard on Win10. It's running fine generally - when testing it through the windows sound driver options it works, I can hear sounds from ALL ...
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How to properly downmix 5.1 sound to stereo
I usually watching Blu-Rays with PowerDVD 16. For some time now, instead of a monitor and a 5.1 sound system I used before, I use a television via HDMI now. The television only has Stereo.
When I had ...
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Why does Windows 10 send mono audio to the center channel of a 5.1 setup?
When playing mono audio (eg an old video on YouTube) Windows 10's behaviour is to send that to the center channel.
Is there a way to get monaural audio streams to play through the front L/R speakers ...
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Bitstream/Generic HDMI 5.1 from PC vs Dolby Digital: am I missing out on anything?
I have a DENON AV-Amplifier/Home Theatre system with HDMI passtrough (several HDMI inputs, one HDMI output to TV), connected to 5.1 passive speakers.
I purchased it more than 10 years ago, so it's ...
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Home theater connection with laptop audio port
I have an old home theater(HT) with 3 sets of input ports (see photo below).
Now my asus genbook has a 3.5mm audio port. I want to connect audio with my laptop and HT. Just want to use the HT as ...
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