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[lansalot]

FWIW, I have noticed a few games that don't output some sounds over the digital link. An example that comes to mind is Grand Theft Auto Vice City, which will put the car sounds etc over the digital link, but not the music or speech. It remains in standard stereo at best to the TV.

There are others, but I can't recall them right now.

GTAVC website recommends you set the sound to mono in your xbox to counter this - ha !

[Mr Ed]

QUOTE (lansalot @ Feb 17 2004, 03:56 PM)

FWIW, I have noticed a few games that don't output some sounds over the digital link. An example that comes to mind is Grand Theft Auto Vice City, which will put the car sounds etc over the digital link, but not the music or speech. It remains in standard stereo at best to the TV. There are others, but I can't recall them right now. GTAVC website recommends you set the sound to mono in your xbox to counter this - ha !

Huh?  I don't have that game but your saying I wouldn't hear music or speech on that game?  My only audio connection is the optical digital one.  I don't have any analog audio connections from my XBOX to my amp.

I highly doubt I wouldn't get any music or speech on that game.  

[manasol]

I just tested it on my PS2 version of gta and my newly Xbox version and I don't get the probem that you have.

My neck hurts from all the speaker listening.

It's strange but it works nicely for me.

[soundwookie]

Are you sure that you don't have your built in TV speakers set up as the center channel ?

If this were the case, that would explain why you are getting, essentially, the center
channel only from the TV.


I use only the optical connection, as that's all you (should) need. The Xbox has no idea what your specific setup is, that's left up to your decoder (ie, your amp/receiver). for instance, my receiver will detect if I unplug my center channel speaker, and re-route the center channel speaker to the mains automatically. If yours doesn't do it, then you certainly must be able to tell the receiver to do so.

[Mr Ed]

Does the XBOX even output analog audio through the RCA jacks if you've enabled digital audio via the optical port?

[XLNC]

The GTA VC I got had quite a few sound files missing in it which pissed me off because most of the cutscenes didn't have any sound, when the cutscenes came up they played the sound when you complete a mission and that's it.

I then encoded the sound files from the PC version to WAV format and then to the XBOX WAV format, after a whole day of encoding I FTP all the files.

I started up the game and the sound was great quality, encoded perfectly. I began the game with the intro video which shows Tommy coming from the Airport and drug deal which goes bad. I am usually closest to the right rear speaker and I definately heard the helicopter sounds as it was landing and made me think that how can the sound be in 5.1

Also when Tommy gets a phone call from Sonny, when he throws the phone down, I heard the bang on the right right rear speaker. Now I'm just wondering how sound files which were normal MP3 files from the PC version of vice city encoded to the xbox wav format turn out to be in 5.1 sound. Does the xbox encoder encode them in 5.1?

[ideas_man69]

jm_007 is right. the xbox includes an encoder similar to nForce motherboards which encodes all audio into a 5.1 audio signal.

your amplifier will always show that the signal is 5.1, but if the game only is written with stereo sound, only the front 2 speakers will play any audio, the other 3 and the sub will stay silent, depending on your setup.

checkin out this link will show you what games have dobly digital sound.

cheers

[Jimberfly]

http://xbox-scene.co...ital-output.php

This may or may not help you...

[irfan]

its NOT neccesarily DD5.1 Discrete even if you hear it in 6 channels

Most of the time, the game supports ProLogic2, which uses 6 channels, but its not a true 5.1 signal.. as in the game does not have 5 tracks and a bass-line to send to each speaker...instead it gives 2 signals and the reciever decodes the rest.

If it supports DD5.1, check the back of the box and it will say so.  You will see a diagram ... a square with dots at each corner and on on the top line.. that means its a real DD5.1 source.  Dolby Digital can be prologic, proogic2, etc etc.

ProLogic2 is a popular choice since you only need 2 real channels.  Your reciever can mix any 2 tracks and make it seem 5.1.  heck, give it a mono (ONE channel) feed, and if you press the right buttons, the sound will come from all of the speakers.  its a mono track, but its on 5.1 speakers.... big difference from a discrete 5.1 source.