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ASUS P5W 5-19
Using Dolby
®
Digital Live™
The Dolby
®
Digital Live™ technology encodes your computer’s digital audio
contents to real-time Dolby
®
Digital streams. Using the CODEC and the Sony/
Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF) ports on the motherboard, you can send the
encoded Dolby
®
Digital streams to an AC-3 decoder for playback on a multi-
channel speaker system.
Refer to the following illustrations when converting sounds to Dolby
®
Digital
streams.
Direct or non-encoded audio
in your computer passes
through the AC-3 encoder.
1
2
The AC-3 encoder
converts the sound into
Dolby
®
Digital streams.
Realtek
®
ALC882M
CODEC
3
The audio CODEC processes
the streams then passes it to an
AC-3 decoder through the S/PDIF
out port.
4
The AC-3 decoder
processes the streams
then plays them back on
a multi-channel speaker
system.
To enable the Dolby
®
Digital Live™:
1. Connect an AC-3 decoder to the
coaxial/optical S/PDIF out port.
2. Connect the AC-3 decoder to the
multi-channel speaker system.
3. Launch the Realtek HD Audio
Manager by double clicking the
Realtek HD Audio Manager icon on
the Windows
®
taskbar.
4. Click the Dolby Digital Live
button. You can now convert your
computer’s audio content to Dolby
®
Digital streams.