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can't get multichannel (5.1) using RCA pin-plug stereo cable

  • 19-12-2008 8:18am
    #1
    DamoKen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭


    This is in connection with http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055443041 . I've got sound working now by connecting the (LINE 2) AUDIO IN jacks to the audio out on the plasma using a RCA pin-plug stereo cable.

    However this will only play in a 2.1 setup, I realise I can't get dolby 5.1 without an optical connection, but I would have thought I could at least get multi-channel, that is output sound from the rear speakers as well.

    I can get 5.1 on any dvd played through the DSC-370, including any divx source I burn to dvd. But as I store most of my media on a NAS box and stream this through the xbox this approach is not the one I want to take.

    Anyone any ideas as to how I can achieve multi-channel?

    cheers


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  • #2
    The Ritz
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, RicherSounds.ie Moderator Posts: 2,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Ritz


    If you set your Pioneer to Dolby ProLogic it should give you emulated 5.1 from a stereo input from your TV.

    Ritz.


  • #3
    DamoKen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭DamoKen


    looks like I don't have that option, need to choose "Line" to pick up the line in, can't seem to get anything other than 2.1 once I do that. Really dissapointed, whole point of buying the damn thing was to play divx streamed from a NAS box through xbmc in 5.1 :(.

    Any ideas of an extender i.e amp or something that I could run both the pioneer and tv feeds through connecting existing speakers? Or should I just scrap the whole thing and start from scratch?

    Looks like all I can at the moment is burn to dvd which is not something I want to do. Copying onto a usb stick individual films doesn't work either despite what I read in reviews as all it seems to take from there is jpeg's.


  • #4
    The Ritz
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, RicherSounds.ie Moderator Posts: 2,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Ritz


    the specs for the model you mention say it does Pro Logic and Pro Logic II, there's no way you'd be processing to this from a digital input, so it has to come from a stereo input, which I would have thought would be coming from the sound outputs on your TV - the user Manual for the Pioneer, Page 14, Listening in Surround Sound suggests in the footnotes that you have to select "DVD/CD" or "USB" for multichannel playback, cycling through the options on the "Surround" button - very odd.

    If you're looking for an alternative solution, maybe you could describe your sources and how you want to use them and people could give you some options. NAS and streaming Xboxes is not my thing....

    Ritz.


  • #5
    DamoKen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭DamoKen


    Hi Ritz, sources are Sky box and xbox, both hooked up to the tv via scart. I've then got the tv connected to the DCS-370 through the line in via a left right rca cable. Sound is being picked up from both but just no option for multi channel that I can see.


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