Stereo sound on a 5.1 speaker system,help

[Punkid]

ive got intel DG31PR motherboard,which has realtek ALC888 sound onboard...ive got a 5.1 speaker setup and i can play DVDs with 5.1ch audio fine,get sound on all the speakers...but with stereo files like mp3 songs,i only get sound on the front 2 speakers,i need to upmix it...how do i do that????

there is no such option in the realtek control panel and ive got the latest drivers.

 

[nismo91]

if you dont have the option, u can always try to use filter codec, such as ffdshow decoder, which is capable of doing that. i strongly suggest you to get K-lite codec pack, beside the vast availability of codecs installed, ffdshow is also included, to improve my music performance, and lot of things.

what media player are you using?

 

[Punkid]

im using WMP on windows 7,i jst tried klite,but mp3's dont use the ffdshow filter provided by klite

 

[Punkid]

new drivers for my sound card brought the option 'Speaker Fill' to the control panel so im good now

 

[nismo91]

well, speaker fill works pretty good.
k-lite doesnt work in WMP in vista and win7...

 

[Punkid]

it works ,used to work in vista too