I do have surround sound, but I wasn’t aware of that being an issue with a PC solution. Have you encountered issues getting that to work?
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Kethal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I attach a computer to a TV and open streaming Web sites in a browser. There aren’t much benefits of the streaming devices compared to that unless you’re using surround sound. The Netflix desktop program has surround sound, but that’s the only service I know of.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kethal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I haven’t used this in a bit so i thought I’d check it. They sort of recently updated the desktop program and nothing works at all now. It appears to be just Edge pretending to be another program. It’s literally just a browser so surround sound doesn’t work now.
Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This is what you want to get surround sound to work in windows again.
techpowerup.com/…/aaf-optimus-dch-audio-modded-dr…
This driver will work with both hdmi and toslink (optical) and possibly other connections.
Evidently Microsoft used to include a Dolby digital driver back in the day but has removed it due to licensing.
Oh and this will also enable surround sound in games too.