5.1-sound with 2ch soundcard

[Stephan H=?ISO-8859-1?B?5Q==?=kansson]

I have a PowerBook G4 and a Sony Receiver with a DD & DTS decoder. I want to
watch a DivX-movie with AC-3 5.1 or a DVD with DD or DTS and use my reciever
to decode the 5.1-sound. The receiver has optical input and I have just
bought a Sony PCLK-U5, witch I connect to the USB-port and on the other end
there's an optical output. It works great with 2ch sound, but how do I get
it to work with 5.1?

VLC mixes down 5.1 to 2ch, doesn¹t it, or where is the limitation?
- PCLK-U5 optical output? (doesn't this hardware support 5.1? I thought it
just transported the digital signal)
- The sound-card? (I thought I was bypassing it with the PCLK-U5 optical
output, don¹t I?)
- The operating system? (mac os x should support it, shouldn¹t it?)
- VLC?

Does anyone know if there¹s a way to make it work?


Equipment: PowerBook G4, 667 MHz, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB HD 42k rpm, Ati Radeon
Mobility 16MB, Mac OS X 10.1.4

/Stephan
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc/attachments/20020516/7c43e0d8/attachment.html>