This paper provides information about audio drivers for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It presents guidelines that audio device and system vendors can follow to provide hardware and software support for home theater speaker configurations and multichannel audio stream formats. Beginning with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP and in Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003, the Windows multimedia control panel provides support for a new 7.1-channel stream format for home theater systems.
This information applies for the following operating systems:
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista
What's New:
Updated web page information on white paper
Included in this white paper:
| • | Multichannel Stream Formats |
| • | Mapping Stream Formats to Speaker Configurations |
| • | Header File Changes |