# Nearly Built My PVR - But I Have A Sound Card Question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 11, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-built-my-pvr-but-i-have-a-sound-card-question/407619 "2007-06-11T21:08:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-built-my-pvr-but-i-have-a-sound-card-question/407619/1 "2007-06-11T21:08:46Z")

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After spending more than I should have for the sake of watching my downloaded videos on my TV I am just about done with the project. For the moment, I’m going to be using onboard sound to output to my receiver.

That will be fine for a bit, but I want to put something in for some good 5.1 sound. I’ve got a decent receiver, so that isn’t an issue.

However, on doing some reading I see that some sound cards give you trouble with outputting to a DTS (or other) decoder. Particularly, it seems that Soundblaster cards don’t play nice as far as outputting DVD audio to an external decoder.

What I want is to just feed into the coaxial audio port (or SPDIF port) on my receiver and have things work with a minimal of pain-in-the-ass-ness.

So, anyone have any ideas of what I should look for or stay away from?

-Joe

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-built-my-pvr-but-i-have-a-sound-card-question/407619/2 "2007-06-12T03:06:06Z")

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Have you checked with the folks at [Myth TV](http://www.mythtv.org/) ?