Front/Rear sound

[Thorn]

So I finally got my PC to allow me to use my front headphone jack, which is nice. However, I haven't been able to find a way to get both the rear and front ports to work at the same time. I'm not trying to send two different sounds through them (though, that would be epic. Can't fathom it working) just trying to get the same sound to run through them both.


Is it possible?

 

[Yami]

It's certainly possible from a technical standpoint, though I can't imagine any drivers or software designed to do it. What are your sound drivers?

 

[Thorn]

Realtek High Definition Audio.

Edit:

I solved the problem with different output to the front panel
on my ASUS P5P43TD.

All you need to do is to go to Onboard Devices Configuration in BIOS
settings and change Front Panel Type from HD Audio to AC97

After restarting you have now Tab called HD Audio 2nd output
in Realtek Audio Manager (but keep Speakers tab as default output).

If you can't see that Tab, go to Device Advanced Settings and change it to
Make Front and Rear output devices playback two different
audio streams simultaneously.

If you choose the other option in Advanced, you will have only
one stream but from both outputs - front and rear (Yes! It's possible!)

And now you have multiple choice for output in popular applications
such as audio- and video-players, where you can change output to
Speakers or to HD Audio 2nd output.
As a result my Foobar2000 (audio) and MPC (video) are playing
onto different outputs as I'm typing this post.

For some games you can choose the output too (Black Ops) in game
Sound options but in some of them you cannot (MW II)
BTW if you don't set anything as Default in Realtek Audio Manager
you won't have any sound in MW II and some other games.

Using that I was able to at least get them both synced together playing the same thing. Though he says it's possible to use two different audio streams and I see the option, I'm not sure where/how I would tell which program to send sound to a certain device. Pretty cool idea though, I used to be under the impression it would take two sound cards to achieve this.