Usually, I install the one that came from the original setup (dell or whomever) and then check for an update from the manufacturer/motherboard maker.
Sometimes the ones from the system integrator website (dell, etc.) are a stripped down 'stable' version of the driver and don't have full feature support. In the end though, it sounds like either your sound card is not working properly or the driver is wrong/not loading/not configured properly. You could also try XBMC for windows, it has some decent options for selecting audio output settings. I use optical because my old Panasonic receiver was released about 5 minutes before HDMI went mainstream.
The machine I use as an HTPC at home has a realtek chip and it has a software application that shows up in the control panel for setting the speaker type/number and for selecting the output (analog/HDMI/optical). That's generally where I find I have issues if 5.1 output is not working for certain media. It has the options for SPDIF passthrough and speaker setup etc. It isn't the most up to date stuff but it just works in my experience. I've gone back and forth on 'codec packs' and in the end, I keep coming back to CCCP. Still just 2.1 carried on a DTS 5.1 signal according to the receiver.
No matter what I throw at it from clean install to full latest drivers with any codec and splitter I can think of. There is now some sort of layer in windows that filters everything that is output digitally down to 2.1. Because this just should not be happening. I'm almost more likely to install the old Auzentech X-plosion 5.1 DTS connect card I have just gathering dust. But if you want to use ac3 filter for any audio, you should. ac3 filter will only be used by BSPlayer for videos with ac3 audio. I have not yet reinstalled Windows though. VALID EDIT: Im an old bsplayer user, so naturally I tried loading different codecs and playing with the ffdshow audio decoder, but I cant seem to enable AC3filter, it always loads the audio with DirectSound audio. When we yesterday discovered that all I get now is 2.1, I have also done full uninstalls of everything codec and audio-related with apropriate codec-cleaners and beginning again. All I did between then and now was listening to music, Playing some video-files and applying Windows updates. And this did work correctly on this hardware some time ago. No matter if VLC, MPCHS (32 and 64 bits), Media Player or Zoom Player. Files from the server that has full 5.1 DTS Sound on all other computers will trigger the Receiver to detect DTS and 5.1 but still only get audio for 2.1 sent to it from the computer. Thing is, I've tried everything from clean system all the way up to full codec installs, it makes no difference.
Any other suggestions on what might be wrong here? I'm stumped, wtf is happening? Is it some late update in Win7 that does this? Some threads I read on the topic seem to suggest that is a pure optical SPDIF issue with some Realtek chips and that a non-optical connection would solve it. The Receiver actually detects AC3 or DTS and activates full surround speakers, but only 2.1 sound gets transmitted over DTS and/or AC3 this way. I have a nearly identical build in another room that has no problems whatsoever with this setup.īut here is the big twist on this system. Previous builds I just had to set up mkv's for example with Haali splitter and AC3filter as default and then set ac3filter to just passthrough DTS and AC3 to SPDIF, and everything was fine.
No Codecs installed, and full shark win 7 codec pack with 圆4 extentions and whatever Zoom player likes. These height speakers (not to be confused with Dolby. I've tried clean win 7 driver situation, and latest Realtek HD drivers. These receivers incorporate two extra channels to add a height layer to a 7.1-channel speaker layout. I am using SPDIF Optical out to my receiver.ĭespite having set up these kind of systems since the dawn of times I just cannot get more than 2.1 sound out here.
I have a HTPC based on a MSI 990XA-GD55 motherboard with Realtek HD soundcard. However I want to rip that blu-ray to my WHS in to an MKV file when done (don't feel like waiting to rip first) with the option to rip the blu-ray DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD track, can i rip the true HD / dtshd tracks and playback? My interface is WMC and I am using mymovies.I have just wasted about 3.5 hours trying to solve this problem. I have my HTPC setup right now with Arcsoft TMT 5 and playback form disc when I get a new blu-ray