I've had a message from one of the Mac users on this forum who tells me that surround sound on Mac is magical and little documented. It should work through the S/PDIF (Optical Digital connection) connector on a modern Mac but he's never tried it as he don't have an external Dolby AC3 decoder with S/PDIF input.
Does anything here help? http://guides.macrumors.com/Configuring ... n_Mac_OS_X
Problems with surround channels
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Re: Problems with surround channels
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Re: Problems with surround channels
I will be gone from a computer for a week now but when I return I will post how it went. Tanks for all of your help!!
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Re: Problems with surround channels
I'm still marveling at the 5.1 channel WAV files. When did multi-channel WAV become widely supported? One of the reasons that Broadcast WAV was developed was to get around the stereo WAV limitation.
The shortcoming was recursive. Everybody knew WAV files stopped at two so they never designed software to support it. There was no software, so nobody expected more than two channels from a WAV file.
Yes, I know the WAV specification is for multi-channel, it just wasn't supported.
Koz
The shortcoming was recursive. Everybody knew WAV files stopped at two so they never designed software to support it. There was no software, so nobody expected more than two channels from a WAV file.
Yes, I know the WAV specification is for multi-channel, it just wasn't supported.
Koz