Easy Way to enable Dolby Digital in Xbox?

[plexlau]

I saw this msg from xbox-scene. Just wonder if it workable?

If you want to enable Dolby Digital with a standard AV pack then do this:

1: Pull the AV plug out of your xbox
2: Look into the plug. There you'll see some small holes in the middle
3: Find a small piece of wire (1-2 cm)
4: twist the wire and put it into hole 5 and 18 (making a connection)

1 12
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13 24

5: plug the AV pack into your xbox again
6: now you can select Dolby Digital from the M$ Dash

[Mechaman]

Hi,

Yes it works but you have to be careful not to let the wire loosen and short other pins in the socket

Here's another way of doing it ->

For reference, the pins are as follows:

Pin 3 = Digital SP-DIF signal
Pin 5 = Mode ground
Pin 13 = 5 volt supply (required for optical connector only)
Pin 18 = Mode 2 (when grounded tells the Xbox that an AV connector with digital output is connected, enabling the option in the menu for Dolby Digital)




rdgs

Mechaman

plexlau said:

I saw this msg from xbox-scene. Just wonder if it workable?

If you want to enable Dolby Digital with a standard AV pack then do this:

1: Pull the AV plug out of your xbox
2: Look into the plug. There you'll see some small holes in the middle
3: Find a small piece of wire (1-2 cm)
4: twist the wire and put it into hole 5 and 18 (making a connection)

1 12
--------------
/ |||||||||||| \
| \ |
| |||||||||||| |
|__________ |
13 24

5: plug the AV pack into your xbox again
6: now you can select Dolby Digital from the M$ Dash

[pinkiebrown]

is there an external decoder i can get to work with my xbox to get surround sound?
my speakers, logitech z-5300 don't have a decoder, so i'm still getting stereo only.

[Mechaman]

You need to have a cable that supports digital sound o/p connected to your xbox 1st. For example, the High Defination AV pack provides 5.1 ch surround o/p

Any xbox game or DVD with digital encoding will then be able to play in digital sound.

Guest-pinkiebrown said:

is there an external decoder i can get to work with my xbox to get surround sound?
my speakers, logitech z-5300 don't have a decoder, so i'm still getting stereo only.