- Creative sound blaster x fi surround 5.1 pro usb audio system with sbx sb1095 license#
- Creative sound blaster x fi surround 5.1 pro usb audio system with sbx sb1095 tv#
When trying to build this in Debian, it can be done for free, but the little thing is way under powered when trying to play just stereo audio.
Creative sound blaster x fi surround 5.1 pro usb audio system with sbx sb1095 license#
I have RaspBerry PI and with openELEC/XBMC boot, I think you would have to buy an External DVD player and the license to play DVD's which together already costs more than that DVD player by its self.
Creative sound blaster x fi surround 5.1 pro usb audio system with sbx sb1095 tv#
It is a bit frustrating but I am going to get this working somehow! Let me say that without a doubt, the least expensive way to play a DVD in 5.1 is to buy a DVD player and connect it directly to your receiver using an Optical and/or to your TV using HDMI connection and then never look back. Even older tutorials for 11.x don't work anymore since pulseaudio/alsa have changed a lot since. I have read that people successfully got AC3 surround working with this card but all methods I found are either old or don't apply to openSUSE. I am going to try the card in openELEC on my Raspberry Pi and see what that does.
Ticking AC3 and DTS in Pavucontrol does work to the extend that the Dolby 5.1 soundtrack plays in XBMC but I only have sound coming from the front-left and front-right speakers. Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro - USB sound cardĭiscard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)ĭefault ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)Ĥ.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakersĤ.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakersĥ.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakersĥ.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakersħ.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers Nvidia Geforce G210 (Closed Source Nvidia drivers) Pulseaudio does not seem to give me the option. It works fine with Digital stereo and I see options for analogue 5.1 but I am unable to get Digital Dolby 5.1 working via the SPDIF.
Since I do not have any more free PCI/PCI-e slots for a "normal" soundcard, a USB solution was needed. I initially tried to get surround via the Nvidia but failed due to the fact that my Samsung TV does not passthrough Dolby (that would be to easy!!) and my LG surround system does not have a HDMI in (I knew I should have bought the more expensive 7.1 system!!) I recently purchased a SoundBlaster X-FI Surround 5.1 pro USB sound card which I was hoping to use to connect my HTPC (a HP Proliant Microserver N36L with added Nvidia Geforce G210 and TSB 6891 TV tuner) to my LG surround sound system via optical SPDIF.