How to get 5.1 Surround Sound to work ALL THE TIME on your computer.

Don't have the "speaker fill" setting when configuring your 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound system while on your computer ?
Ever wanted all of your 5.1 speakers to play while watching KZbin or Netflix ?
Here's how to make it happen!
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[@stevenwarne69]

I swear that everyone owns or has owned them speakers at one point

[@lindcobbs4615]

I connected my 5.1 surround sound computer speakers to my Gateway laptop with a 3 .5 cable splitter. Now I get sound not just in the two front speakers but also the two rear speakers all the time

[@marionfelty7247]

Excellent. Not for the fill idea, but to know KZbin doesn't enable 5.1 sound on music videos.

[@HanSolocambo]

It's not KZbin it's the whole Internet. Surround 5.1 exists for 47 years. And Internet Browsers and websites are still all : in stereo. That's just insane...

[@gutaszep2886]

@@HanSolocambo They are penny pinching, surround sound takes up space.

[@__oK__]

Thank you. Years ago, Google Chrome had speaker fill option but they took it off. Now my friends problem is solved, because we can rob signal from front audio to everything else. Motherboard front audio socket may get burned over the years, but that MB is very old and cheap. I have HTR-6230 receiver and Toslink combined with Creative Sound Blaster Z so I can put speaker fill from my receiver. Analog is quite dead these days if I compare the sound quality to digital and ease of use. I bought soundcard because you need decoder to get surround working.

[@ajovev]

Hey, thanks for this brilliant idea! I have 2 way splitter, but didn't got this idea... It works great. Why don't you plug the orange cable also in the splitter? So that the center speaker also works. I didn't understand what will mess this up. I have only a 2 way splitter and it works fine with center/sub and rear speakers for example. My solution to this issue, long time ago, was to buy a Creative x-fi audio card for the PC, it has option for Surround sound, creating nice sound from stereo to play on all speakers. This is only for the PC, for laptop I didn't have a solution till now. The creative card died, so I bought 2nd hand older creative audigy, which was for older windows xp, but I managed to get it running on win8.1, so still using it.

[@troyg3831]

So now all your speakers are just playing the same thing and you never have any 3d sound ever. This isn't a fix... it's a tradeoff. The proper solution is to download the audio control application from the manufacturer of your motherboard. ALL boards with 5.1 outputs will have a free application for your board that will allow for advanced options like Speaker Fill. I have a gigabyte board so i downloaded the app from gigabyte, ez pz.

[@1JamesHamilton1]

Dude That is not 5.1 surround at all. Your Title is wrong, this is merely stereo sound with the two front speaker channels split between 4 loads at two speakers per channel. When you do actually play surround media like from gaming or some movies that support surround you will not hear everything from the 5.1 or 7.1 you will only hear the two front speaker channels coming out your two pair of front channel speakers. In other words, While you will have sound from all four speakers, they are not playing sound from four separate channels. I you were to do this with a pre amplified sound system you would be losing your finals PDQ.

[@rickdeckardbladerunner2049]

Yea this is gay

[@1JamesHamilton1]

@@rickdeckardbladerunner2049 when two speakers are wired in parallel as he is doing with each channel. If the speakers are the same ohm value then he effectively cut the load resistance in half, doubling the current required to drive them. The end result the finals get fried. I have leaned early on that everything electric runs on smoke. Because every time I let the smoke out of the circuit it quits working. A little shop humor there.

[@richardharris2848]

​@1JamesHamilton1 except that these are going to the sub/amp that then outputs to the speakers

[@1JamesHamilton1]

Dude, It's not surround. It's sterio sound with a left and right channel only.

[@richardharris2848]

@1JamesHamilton1 i was replying to your comment about the impedance, i get he's just splitting the front channels

[@TakahiroShinsaku]

Actually i also had such a way on the mind at some point, but didnt do it, because it felt wrong, as its not 5.1 any more. Thus i installed everything my On-Board Realtek AC1220 and with the Realtek Audio Console Software, i set up the speaker settings and also super important the environment, if one does not do the last one, you hear nothing at all from reag speakers. Also because the rear ones are not as loud as the front ones i tuned down the volume of the front ones.

[@sky173]

Can't understand all the down-votes. This is really educational. Thanks for sharing.

[@jakubshouseofrock7109]

thank you !

[@Sokolov812-lz5ov]

cause he don't have a clue what hes doing with a title saying "How to get 5.1 Surround Sound to work ALL THE TIME on your computer" its not 5.1 nore is it Surround Sound it what ya call quadraphonic if it was really separate front and rear and can be turned on with out the splitter in win10 in the sound control panel and you get real separate front and rear. the right way is to set up 5.1 in win10 in the sound control panel and turn on 5.1 in chrome browser or if he cant figure that out buy a 5.1 up mixer with amp to connect speakers to then use spdif or hdmi to get the audio from pc

[@tronotized1]

What motherboard are you using? I am asking because I would like to help you get the speaker fill option back, but I need to know what motherboard you are using in order to find the correct audio driver for your system.

[@mohammadsadeghkefayati7907]

I have the same problrm and have asus motherboard. I've checked the realtek audio console but fill speaker option is not enabled.

[@tronotized1]

@@mohammadsadeghkefayati7907 What is the model number for that Asus motherboard? Different motherboards use different audio chips so I need to know the exact model number.

[@mohammadsadeghkefayati7907]

@@tronotized1 ASUS TUF Z790 PLUS WIFI which has realtek audio driver

[@bouldozi9554]

Shoutout my boy jakub. Thank you very much

[@nikrist892]

I have a problem, some one pls help. I have a akai dvd home theatre speakers its 5 1 that have amplifier in subwoofer and dvd as main source of input and output, but when i connect these to my pc via 2rca to aux cable i can only enable 2 fornt speakers and sometimes a woofer i have some setting on my remote that says pro logic but i only si options like 3 4 and 2. 3 4 are basicly only front speaker. My pc suppors 5 1 i check it When i go to realtek audio console i enable 5 1 but just 2 work not even the woofer

[@triggahappyyt5420]

I dunno i Always ran optical out or line out to and home entertainment unit. I just replaced the cables with Bluetooth reciever now. I never knew there were surround sound issues in windows.... i actually wanted to try plugging in each individual speaker to the pc but guess thats not an option now....

[@gutaszep2886]

Use Linux (Passive sound from all surround sound speakers is automatically enabled at boot)!

[@WoLF_Rko]

Hello friend I do not know if u are still reading comments. I have upgraded my PC and my old one had correct Audio Fill with Subwoofer. So I could enjoy my 5.1 surround with proper bass all the time. But new PC IDK why but software does not allow that. So the orange could go to splitter too to enjoy Subwoofer or it does not have to ? .. Anyway thanks for the tip I will definetly try this .

[@backstab86]

You mean that the .1 is LFE , not subwoofer. You are using the subwoofer as either a crossover speaker or as a “play bass” speaker. However a subwoofer doesn’t play music or audio.

[@johnathonready9347]

I have my 6 channel out hooked up, but I hooked up 2 pairs to the line out and I can’t get 5.1 to work with them hooked up. My solution is to switch to 4.1 when listening to music and 5.1 when watching movies and that’s about it

[@ronkali5365]

Going to try that, thank you

[@Mrcsitari1]

My pc always changing back to 2.1 after i restart the pc , you know why ?

[@gameratortylerstein5636]

A couple years ago, I unplugged my green speaker cable while the pc was running and IIRC, the PC completely locked up

[@mrboy9786]

this worked! thanks man!!

[@johncraft9464]

yes this isnt surround sound this is constant sound on all speakers

[@PlayerLeonardo]

Worked, thanks my friend :)

[@jakubshouseofrock7109]

glad to hear it !

[@gregcarroll1384]

Hey the only program I can think of for what you asked is realtor HD audio

[@jakubshouseofrock7109]

interesting, I'll check it out. thanks for commenting

[@Cyphlix]

Nice.

[@MixedArarash]

i can't find this adopter.. Do you have a link for it?

[@jakubshouseofrock7109]

no but it doesn't have to be this exact 5 way adapter, just one that can split the signal between 2 sets of headphones hope you had some luck since posting this comment in finding one !

[@TheRogueAdventurers]

This just deactivates the surround permanently

[@Spartan117JMC]

just get a reciever dude oh my, lol

[@Metalkicker]

Unfortunately the way you are doing it is not true surround sound. With proper surround sound software and a video game that supports surround sound fixes it. PC has been screwed by lazy Microsoft and the gaming community. Downloading and installing proper software to configure each speaker is the only way to do it.

[@AmitCantPlay]

The man's the GOAT

[@dislodgegarage9849]

101 like!

[@MrFat.]

This is NOT 5.1. 😮‍💨🤨🤔🤭😝🤣

[@jakubshouseofrock7109]

true... but close enough haha

[@MrFat.]

@@jakubshouseofrock7109 This ain't Horseshoes!🤣 It's either 5.1, or it's not. I bet the Channel Separation is horrible. SNR? Pfft. 🤣

[@jakubshouseofrock7109]

@@MrFat. I think the channel separation was fine tbh... I haven't used this setup in years no so I can't say for certain haha