Best HT Audio Option - Source is PC

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I have my laptop (and sometimes my Chromecast) connected to my TV (Veon V48FHD) using HDMI and then an SPDIF cable to my receiver (Denon AVR-1800). This receiver does not have HDMI connections.

I also have an HDMI audio splitter so I could connect the HDMI through this and connect a TOSLINK cable to the receiver from the splitter.

I also have a digital audio extractor which outputs to 6 analog channels. I could extract the digital audio from the HDMI and then convert that to 6 discrete channels and connect those to the receiver.

Which of these options is likely to give me the best audio result?
 
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oh sorry, i was thinking you had a desktop. my eyes must have glazed over that you mentioned you had a laptop.

try the audio extractor first since you already have that. it should work.

if you wanted optical or 3.5mm you would need an external soundcard.
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if your pc and receiver support 5.1 over optical (on pc you would need dts-connect or dolby digital live support on your soundcard) you could directly connect from pc to receiver via optical. if all devices support 5.1 with this connection (receiver and pc sound card) this would be the ideal way to go about it.

if you have fair onboard audio, you could use 3.5mm to rca splitter adapters to directly connect from pc to receiver. if you do not have good onboard sound, then you could always use the audio extractor to do this instead. either of these would be the best alternative (likely in the order i listed them).

you do not want to run pc->tv via hdmi and then use the tv's optical to receiver since often when doing this the signal will get downgraded to 2.0 before passing through to the receiver since the pc will recognize the tv as a 2.0 only device. so stick with the 3 options i listed.
 
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PC (laptop) does not have optical out so I do not have a direct route to the receiver.
Neither does it have 5.1 output other than HDMI.
I will try using the audio extractor.
 
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oh sorry, i was thinking you had a desktop. my eyes must have glazed over that you mentioned you had a laptop.

try the audio extractor first since you already have that. it should work.

if you wanted optical or 3.5mm you would need an external soundcard.
 
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