The Mac HDMI out sounds like your best bet. You may need to work with the
audio-midi-setup app to make it work (seeting the # of channels and then
assignments in 'configure speakers').

jim

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:33 PM, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jim,
> Tell me about it - unfortunately this system has no analogue ins for the
> surround sound only HDMI, Coax and Optical . It also does a lot of weird
> esoteric encoding stuff in the box which I dont really wan tit to do.  I am
> not even sure if the box needs to receive 5.1 encoded in a certain way to
> make it ieven easier I am working remotely so cant actually get my hands on
> it but give instructions to non audio colleagues.I will try and get them to
> try the HDMI thing tomorrow turning it into an interface,
> all the best
> Gus
>
> On 6 March 2018 at 18:30, jim moses <jmo...@brown.edu> wrote:
>
> > There are HDMI audio inserters
> > <https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13347&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8tGc-
> > qfY2QIVjVmGCh0NGwIrEAQYASABEgKBzvD_BwE>
> > that
> > will embed audio (in this case Toslink for for surround). and
> de-embedders
> > if you need to get audio out of an HDMI stream. Just FYI, going straight
> > from the computer's easier.
> >
> > jim
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Augustine Leudar <
> > augustineleu...@gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Daniel that's exactly what I'm hoping for on this system
> > >
> > > On Tuesday, 6 March 2018, Courville, Daniel <courville.dan...@uqam.ca>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well, on macOS, if you connect your computer via HDMI to a surround
> > > > receiver/processor, you'll have the option of using that device as an
> > > audio
> > > > interface.
> > > >
> > > > Or do you mean something else?
> > > >
> > > > - Daniel
> > > >
> > > >     Message: 1
> > > >     Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:36:28 +0000
> > > >     From: Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com>
> > > >     To: Surround Sound discussion group <sursound@music.vt.edu>
> > > >     Subject: [Sursound] realtime 5.1 streaming over hdmi ?
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> > > >     Does anyone know a way of streaming 5.1 in realtime over HDMI ?
> > > >
> > > >
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