Using Onboard Optical and Coaxial Out at the Same Time?

[Scant7]

Hi guys, I have my computer in my bedroom, and right around the corner I have my "media room". I have my computer connected via optical cable to my Onkyo 707 receiver in my "media room" for when I want to watch movies or listen to music out there. I also have an Onkyo 506 receiver in my bedroom, and when I want to play games or listen to music in my bedroom, I unplug the optical cable connected to my media room and plug in my optical cable connected to my bedroom.

With this setup, I'm constantly switching between the 2 optical cables between my bedroom and media room setups.

What I'm wondering, is can I leave my media room connected to my onboard sound via optical cable, and then connect my bedroom's receiver to the onboard sound using a coaxial cable, so that I have 2 digital cables always plugged into my onboard sound?

This way, I wouldn't have to keep switching between cables, if I wanted to watch movies in the media room, I would turn on that receiver and turn off the one in my bedroom, and when I want to play games in my bedroom, I would turn off the receiver in the media room and turn on the one in my bedroom... does that make sense?

Would this work? Would I also be able to turn on both receivers and have the same music playing out of both receivers in both rooms?

[Conumdrum]

Don't have to switch cables. You can buy a box even with remote that will switch channels.

Most PC software says one or the other. Get a patchbox.

Google.

[Neuromancer]

Depending on your OS you can just tell it to use XXX output for this app and XXX output for that app.

My Foxconn board supports dual digital output. MUst have Vista or newer though probably.

[glorp]

I imagine it will depend on the board and drivers but both my digital out ports, Coax+Optical, on the I/O backplane of my P35 board work off the same Vista driver device fpr the onboard sound chip and both have sound on them simultaneously. If you don't have different devices in Control Panel->Sounds for the two different connectors then it's a pretty good bet they'll both be active at once. Just try it.

[glorp]

I believe this to be not possible at all... gl

Since I have an Asus P5K-E board that does it, I'd tend to believe differently.

[tweakboy]

Also, the software has to support it... the drivers etc..

[Weeman]

Windows 7... get it, you can swich between any outputs with two clicks of the mouse, and just leave everything connected. The only issue is if you wanted them both on at the same time. A royal pain, but doable.