@TheMburu Relying on that Home theater to play all your media formats is not a very feasible prospect.Get a PC with a sound card that has S/PDIF output and use the home theater as your 5.1 / 7.1 amplifier.
Alternatively, you can get a graphics card that sports a HDMI out port and connect to your Home theatre.
A more affordable solution is to use a modern motherboard that has an onboard Intel HD Audio Compatible card. (AFAIK most of today's mobos do)
These can switch all jacks(mic, line in/out) for use as 5.1/7.1 audio output. This is a more common solution. Connect all those to your HT and you have playback support from all the codecs and demuxers available.
Plus if you have a video capture card, you can record, store and playback video later....Even on timed schedule
You can even use your mobile phone as a bluetooth remote control!!
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2011/12/5 James Nzomo
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@Steve, Once something is published in the open, it doesn't matter whether the owner closes it up again, it is in the public domain Download the sources
here and enter the realm of opensource Hardware
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2011/12/5 aki
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@TheMburu, we may have to do a Linus for you. ( just kidding.. ) I'm just thinking aloud here..
Since there's no schematic, we would need a working unit that works with all the formats, maybe a newer model. We will then have to reverse engineer the chip maps and voltages and scope readings. Identify the controller chip and see what lacks on your machine. Ok, this is beyond my age as I can hardly read resistor codes these days. Wish you had posted this many many years ago, lakini then there was no internet.
How esle can you be helped? The minds buzzing.... :-)