2 different sound outputs from x-fi

[wfarid]

Building an htpc and I'm going to hook up 8 speakers powered by a 700 watt amp and a self powered 350 sub hooked up to the pc's sound card. These speakers will be playing music. Now I also have 4 lcd tvs hooked up pc (via a 1x4 component splitter) and I want the tv speakers to play the respective audio and not the music.

Is there anyway I could play both a movie and music on the computer and have the music go to the 8.1 system and the movies go to the tvs speakers from an x-fi music soundcard? So essentially i want to different sound outputs.

 

[ourfpshero]

short answer- no
u cant get 2 different sources output to 2 seperate speaker sets with any sound card i know of.
however u can use 2 sound cards- if this will work depends on the application letting u choose the sound card it uses. i know teamspeak does but other than that i dont know

 

[Moofasa~]

Building an htpc and I'm going to hook up 8 speakers powered by a 700 watt amp and a self powered 350 sub hooked up to the pc's sound card. These speakers will be playing music. Now I also have 4 lcd tvs hooked up pc (via a 1x4 component splitter) and I want the tv speakers to play the respective audio and not the music.

Is there anyway I could play both a movie and music on the computer and have the music go to the 8.1 system and the movies go to the tvs speakers from an x-fi music soundcard? So essentially i want to different sound outputs.

Well Vista separates your sound card into two audio devices, Speakers (analog) and S/PDIF. So if your TV has a S/PDIF in (I think mine does?), you could probably make this work (S/PDIF->TV, analog->receiver). Although if you have XP, I'm not sure what your options would be.

 

[wfarid]

well i could use the onboard sound for tv and then use the sound card for the music. Just have to figure out how to do it on xp.

 

[rufio]

i remember being able to clone the front channel to the rear channel with the original software that comes with the xfi and thus have two front channel outputs, however you would get the exact same thing from both outputs and it doesnt help you if you need surround sound. if you wanna know more ill take a look when i get home from work.