This guide was the solution that worked for me.Ī missing note for newbs like me. I did a lot of surfing and finally I found an article that mentioned that the a52 plugin was missing entirely. I ended up doing a fresh install to fix it- No loss, as I'd just installed anyway, but you might want to avoid it. However this doesn't seem to work with Cinnamon as I attempted it and found I was still confined to stereo via some remnant of Pulseaudio. In the past, I'd just uninstall Pulseaudio using this guide and install Alsa and be done with it. My HTPC Box is connected to the reciever spdif via toslink. up until you try to configure sound for anything that isn't vanilla stereo. therefore, i would say that Dolby Digital Live encoding is definetly the way to go, if you have a receiver 5.1 or better.Linux Mint has the slickest install of any distro I've seen. but anything really less than 24 bit (commerial audio cds are only 16 bit, along with most DVD-video discs), there isnt gonna be much of a real difference at all, analog or digital.
complete analog interconnects and interfacing for 5.1 surround, while listening to DVD-Audio discs on my DVD-Audio player does sound different, and honestly better as ive found in 24/192 quality. and although DDL is a compressed format, there is no noticable or audible loss in sound quality, over a strictly analog connection, other people may argue and try to point out otherwise, but i havent noticed anything but an improvement.
I havent used the Riviera 5.1 myself, but i did purchase a Turtle Beach Montego DDL for $79 + tax a few months back to replace my Audigy 2 ZS, (the montego ddl uses the exact same chipset as the X-Mystique too) ive been very happy with the upgrade ever since, with it hooked up to my receiver via optical out, all the channels are independantly controlled, and you can use all your receivers normal effects with it, instead of only being matrixed surround via 2 channel PCM encoding (such as with dolby surround or dts: neo).
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