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Are there any software based surround decoders?

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tenor39

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I have 3 Digital Audio Labs cards in my computer/DAW that give me 6 channels of audio. It seems, however, that I must use an external processor to have either DTS or Dolby Digital encoded soundtracks. This is non-sensical to me and requires extra hardware. Do none of the DVD programs decode the surround tracks for output to internal sound cards?
 
PowerDVD / WinDVD will decode for you, as will AC3Filter, which is a DirectShow filter plugin.
 
So Power DVD will send L/C/R/LS/RS/LFE to the appropriate channels of my DAL cards? I thought you had to have a hardware decoder running off of the SPDIF out.
 
Let me see if I am reading you right:

You have three sound cards in your PC?

You are using each one for two channels each for a total of 6 channels?

You want a software decoder to route the seperate channels individually to the individual inputs of each sound card?

I would think you would have to do some driver trickery.
 
Hmm, I think I missed that. 3 seperate cards introduce some problems, since the software will only address 1 soundcard at a time.
 
These are high-end cards for my Mastering suite. I guess I'll have to e-mail Cyberlink to find out.
 
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