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Author xbox optical out question

2004-11-30, 9:47 am

Disable "Dolby Surround" only, and plug your headphones
into the amp. Don't disable "dolby digital" because your
xbox will not longer send a signal to your amp.
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>-----Original Message-----
>I use the optical out on my xbox to send a 5.1 signal to

a decoder.
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>My current settings are "dolby surround" and "dolby

digital" enabled.
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>Sometimes midnight though, I don't want to use the 5.1

speakers, but
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>headphones instead.
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>I need the Xbox to send a stereo signal over the optical

out for that.
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>I wonder what I have to change in the dashboard to get

that done. Just turn
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>dolby digital off? Or do I have to set sound to stereo

instead of dolby
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>surround as well?
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>(the dolby surround option confuses me tbh...it's just a

method of making
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>sound trough 2 speakers sound "3d" /more expansive

right?).
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>Pity the Xbox doesnt have sound test built -in btw.
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xTenn

2004-11-30, 5:58 pm


<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:aaf901c4d6df$d960b020$a601280a@phx.gbl...
quote:

> Disable "Dolby Surround" only, and plug your headphones
> into the amp. Don't disable "dolby digital" because your
> xbox will not longer send a signal to your amp.
>



A lot of the time the head (amp, whatever you want to call it ) will handle
the drop down to headphone itself. In this case I would suggest changing
changing nothing, but merely plugging in the headset.




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