DTS WAV playback via HDMI

[Simbo]

Hi,

New to the forum and was hoping you may be able to help.

I have a Dell Studio 1737 laptop with ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics card. I have a number of DTS WAV files that I would like to play back through my AV Receiver. I have downloaded VLC player (as I believe that will play back the DTS files) but when I connect the laptop to the receiver via HDMI I am only getting stereo sound.

Im pretty sure my graphics card will bitstream the audio via HDMI but I cant figure it out.

I have tried downloading the AC3filter which I have seen mentioned on another forum but it didnt work for me.

Can anyone help?

 

[fireberd]

There are SOME models that will only output two channel stereo. Post your question on the Dell users forum Laptop section and see what those there say. Laptop - Dell Community

 

[Simbo]

Thanks. For some reason though my posts come out blank on the Dell forums!!

In the properties of the 'Realtek HDMI output' it says max channels supported: 2! would that suggest my graphics card wont output 5.1 over HDMI? From what ive read it should do.

Also when I download the Realtek drivers there is no sign of the Realtek audio manager.

Any ideas?