PS2 5.1ch Audio

Vholic, I don\'t know what the optical output on a PS2 is compatable with other than SRD and DTS.  I do believe that there are stereo and pro logic recordings that can be played through the SRD system with a DVD though.  I guess this is for films that were out before SRD was common, and they\'ve been digitally mastered.

The digital out passes PCM sound great...

I have tested Saving private Ryan, The Matrix, The Bonecollector, Aliens, Starship Troopers and Three Kings.
Everything worked as a charm. Full DD 5.1.

The fact is, I only use the optical to deliver all the sound from the PS2 into my system. I play CD\'s, PS2 games and DVD movies with high-end speakers (400$, and they are only 100W), and I have to say, that I will nevah go back using R/L cables.

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[Edited by Armini on 12-13-2000 at 12:04 PM]

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I pulled my old dvd player down and put the PS2 up and hooked in my old optical cable and all is fine. I had no sound on one game..that airplane one and I returned it. I think had I just switched the reciever to analog mode it would have worked but I didn\'t think of it so maybe some games don\'t have digital audio and in some cases you gotta switch the reciever back and forth from digital to analog.

first off, even if you could get the ps2 to run in 5.1 surround, it doesn\'t mean that the games will utilize it.  Only dvds will be about to run in 5.1, games will run in sterio unless the developers of games encode 5.1 into the games in order(sorry if mispelled) have surround for games, a very hard task indeed.

Especially a game where the player\'s perspective is constantly changing.  I figure that it can and will be done eventually though.

I\'m using nothing but the optical output on my PS2 and the games sound fine when I\'m set up in Pro logic.

I can hear things on the left and right in Timespliters so far

as for Surround sound the Bouncer is the 1st game I know of using it

Sure, you can hear sounds coming from all speakers but they\'re not surround.  You\'re basically getting stereo sounds from all the speakers.  Just because you getting sounds from all speaker, it does not mean that it\'s surround sound if you know i mean.

I use a computer equipped with sblive and dts 25000 speakers from cambrige.  When i play bg2 with eax supports, it sounds awesome, when you move from one spot to another end of another spot, sound pans around the speakers, that\'s surround soud, in your case, when you play ps2 games, you\'re hear the same sound from all speakers.  Well, like i said, eventually ps2 will have some games with surround support but it will be a hard task to do for ps2.  For sblive, developers have to do is encode the eax emulation into the game and use sblive card to produce the surround sound.  Ps2 does not have an dedicated 3d sound card the gaming part, but eventually they will some how figure it out

Originally posted by raitl
Sure, you can hear sounds coming from all speakers but they\'re not surround.  You\'re basically getting stereo sounds from all the speakers.  Just because you getting sounds from all speaker, it does not mean that it\'s surround sound if you know i mean.

No **** sherlock, What I meant is I still get a stereo effect though my digital optical out.

I use a computer equipped with sblive and dts 25000 speakers from cambrige.  When i play bg2 with eax supports, it sounds awesome, when you move from one spot to another end of another spot, sound pans around the speakers, that\'s surround soud, in your case, when you play ps2 games, you\'re hear the same sound from all speakers.  Well, like i said, eventually ps2 will have some games with surround support but it will be a hard task to do for ps2.  For sblive, developers have to do is encode the eax emulation into the game and use sblive card to produce the surround sound.  Ps2 does not have an dedicated 3d sound card the gaming part, but eventually they will some how figure it out

The PS2 is completely capable of surround sound, its a DVD player as well as a gaming machine and is capable of Dolby Dgitial surround, as I said above the Bouncer will be in Surround and is coming out next month

Madden for PS2 supports Surround sound (dolby pro logic).  Jurassic Park for SNES supports Surround sound.  DPL can be transmitted through 2 composite cables or toslink.

The Bouncer will be in DD Surround.

Yeah THX, I was going to say that.  There are tons of games that are encoded with analog surround sound, like EA sports games.  It works great.

The bouncer is not all the way surround sound, just the movie sequence or the ingame sequence, not the gameplay(i think).  As for other games from snes, they use virtual surround like aureal 3d sound card, where you get 3d sound throught 2 speakers output. Well, anyway i don\'t want to argue on this topic.  If you want a clear understanding, go read the interview with factor5 about sound at ign.com

Ken Griffey\'s Slugfest for N64 was in full, 5 channel Dolby Surround, not simulated surround coming out of 2 speakers.  You are used to playing PC games which favor simulated surround over true DPL/DD.  http://ign64.ign.com/news/7379.html

As for Factor 5\'s comments, stated here, they admit they have heard games supporting Dolby Surround, they just aren\'t impressed with the results.  This is because it is harder to program for 3D voices.  A sound chip capable of spitting out 256 2D voices may only output 64 3D voices.  3D as in Surround sound.

Also this news story which explains that Dolby intends for developers to "encode two-channel Dolby Pro Logic Surround in real-time and mix that with streaming Digital 5.1 Surround audio from the DVD disc."  And before you start saying "Aha!, 2-channel!" DPL is encoded for transmission over 2 channels, but then decoded for 5 channels (center, front L, front R, rear L, rear R) via A/V receiver.

Where would we be without IGN?

[Edited by THX on 12-14-2000 at 08:15 PM]

Don\'t you mean 4 channels THX?  I\'m sure that\'s what you meant...

ahh, 2channel. j/k

ok, i believe you