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Simon Templar · 05-01-2010, 01:39 AM

I currently have a dinosaur 933mHz G4 Quicksilver2002 specs

I am about to order a new MacPro 8-Core Nahalem Specs

My question is....can I move the 5.1 channel audio PCI card which I have in my QS into the Nahalem?

....sT

arkayn · 05-01-2010, 12:59 PM

You really would not need too, all current Macs have optical out which will do 7.1.

You would need to purchase a

toslink adapter

to allow it to use the digital out.

alien_ghost · 06-04-2010, 03:46 PM

The Mac Pro has 4 PCI-Express slots, one of which is taken up by the graphics card. Your PCI card wouldn't fit in those slots. However, as arkayn said you don't need it.

If you have a movie with 5.1 or even 7.1, and you have the speakers, you won't need to get the adapter arkayn suggested, just an optical cable to got from your mac to your amplifier, which hopefully also has digital audio in. The you need to use VLC and open the movie. In VLC, in one of the menus, under audio, or something (can't remember, i'm at work, not in front of my mac) there is an option for "Digital Audio (Encoded)". There is also an "Digital Audio" option, don't choose that.

If your movie is encoded properly and your amplifier for your speakers work OK, you should now be getting sweet sweet surround sound!

Hope this helps, otherwise let me know.

05-01-2010, 01:39 AM	#1 (permalink)
Simon Templar Dharma Bum Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Infinite Rider On The Big Dogma Posts: 729 Credits: 537	Can I Take It With Me? I currently have a dinosaur 933mHz G4 Quicksilver2002 specs I am about to order a new MacPro 8-Core Nahalem Specs My question is....can I move the 5.1 channel audio PCI card which I have in my QS into the Nahalem? ....sT __________________ "I was drawn by the sirens of Titan And so I came in the end Under the shadow of Saturn With statues and birds for my friends Finding a home at the end of my days Looking around I've only to say I was the victim of a series of accidents ...As all we are"

05-01-2010, 12:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
arkayn Arrrggghhh Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Golden Valley Posts: 26,435 Credits: 375	You really would not need too, all current Macs have optical out which will do 7.1. You would need to purchase a toslink adapter toslink adapter to allow it to use the digital out. __________________ 2.0 GHz iMac C2D - OS X.6.4 - 2.5 GB Ram 2.80 GHz Tower - XP Pro- 2 GB Ram 2.33 GHz Quad - Windows 7-64 - 4 GB Ram

06-04-2010, 03:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
alien_ghost HairyRomanianPunkDrummer Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK (Dartford) Posts: 1,390 Credits: 679	The Mac Pro has 4 PCI-Express slots, one of which is taken up by the graphics card. Your PCI card wouldn't fit in those slots. However, as arkayn said you don't need it. If you have a movie with 5.1 or even 7.1, and you have the speakers, you won't need to get the adapter arkayn suggested, just an optical cable to got from your mac to your amplifier, which hopefully also has digital audio in. The you need to use VLC and open the movie. In VLC, in one of the menus, under audio, or something (can't remember, i'm at work, not in front of my mac) there is an option for "Digital Audio (Encoded)". There is also an "Digital Audio" option, don't choose that. If your movie is encoded properly and your amplifier for your speakers work OK, you should now be getting sweet sweet surround sound! Hope this helps, otherwise let me know. __________________ Sase (six in Romanian)

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