audio device problems

[stekun]

Hi

I have got a problem with my audio device in vlc player. I have connected my pc with a hdmi cable and also through another connection with a toslink cable to my receiver. When i play a movie that has dts from the pc and select the spdif in audio device it says on my tv , input dts sound
But when i select 5.1 in audio device and use the hdmi connection it says pcm sound 2.0. I would like to have dts also through my hdmi cable. It supports dts so it must be possible. But i dont know how to do it
Can anyone help me with this?

[VLC_help]

When you have selected HDMI, does it give SPDIF option in VLC?
http://koti.mbnet.fi/raiska/tutorials/vlc092/23.png

[stekun]

yes i can choose to go for spdif.
but spdif doenst supports f.e dts hd and my hdmi connection (through my x fi soundcard) does. so i want to be able to choose the hdmi connection above the spdif to output audio to my receiver.
when i set the audio device to 5.1 the tv says it is multichannel sound. and not dts.
how can i solve this?

thanks for the help btw

[VLC_help]

VLC doesn't support DTS HD pass-through. And VLC cannot decode DTS HD, only core of it.

[stekun]

and what about dts through hdmi? why doesnt that work with the hdmi cable?

[VLC_help]

It might require some additional code. It should work if you select 5.1 from VLC, then VLC decodes it and sends forward uncompressed audio.

[stekun]

and then you dont see dts input at the receiver? but multichannel pcm?
is that the same result in quality?

[VLC_help]

It should be.