Well that is something I didnt suspect, as the same laptop with xbmcbuntu was showing up as 5.1 on my amp, i never bothered checking the TV manual as I assumed is passed through 5.1. Well according to the manual it doesnt. TV model is Samsung ua55c900. So that sort of answers my question. A stranger one is why on earth does it appear to work correctly with xbmcbuntu and my ATV2?
log file if anyone is still interested....not sure if i should bother pursuing this any further though...Thanks for the assistance so far
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18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Starting XBMC (11.0-PRE Git:20120302-7885010), Platform: Windows 7, 64-bit (WoW) Service Pack 1 build 7601. Built on Mar 2 2012 (compiler 1600)
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: AMD E-300 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Desktop Resolution: 1920x1080 32Bit at 60Hz
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Running with administrator rights
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Aero is enabled
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: C:\Users\master\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: C:\Users\master\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: C:\Users\master\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\cache
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: The executable running is: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\XBMC.exe
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Local hostname: minilap
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Log File is located: C:\Users\master\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\xbmc.log
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Setup SDL
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Found screen: Generic PnP Monitor on AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics, adapter 0.
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18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 29.97i - Full Screen
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: load settings...
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Checking resolution 11
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Default Video Player: dvdplayer
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Disabled debug logging due to GUI setting. Level 0.
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Log level changed to 0
18:30:43 T:1904 NOTICE: Loading media sources from special://masterprofile/sources.xml
18:30:44 T:1904 NOTICE: initializing playlistplayer
18:30:44 T:1904 NOTICE: DONE initializing playlistplayer
18:30:45 T:1904 NOTICE: initialize done
18:30:45 T:1904 NOTICE: Running the application...
18:30:45 T:1904 NOTICE: ES: Starting event server
18:30:45 T:1652 NOTICE: ES: Starting UDP Event server on 0.0.0.0:9777
18:30:45 T:1652 NOTICE: UDP: Listening on port 9777
18:30:45 T:5464 ERROR: CRemoteControl::Connect - failed to connect
18:30:45 T:4940 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
18:32:12 T:1904 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: smb://NAS/Public/video/Movies/Star Wars The Complete Saga 1977-2005 1080p BluRay xnHD x264 NhaNc3/Star.Wars.Episode.2.Attack.of.the.Clones.20021080p.BluRay.xnHD.x264-NhaNc3.mkv
18:32:12 T:1904 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):
ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
18:32:12 T:3756 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
18:32:12 T:3756 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
18:32:13 T:3756 NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
18:32:13 T:3756 NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28
18:32:13 T:3756 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
18:32:13 T:3756 NOTICE: Creating video thread
18:32:13 T:3756 NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
18:32:13 T:3756 NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86019/-99
18:32:13 T:3756 NOTICE: Creating audio thread
18:32:13 T:3756 NOTICE: Opening Subtitle stream: 0 source: 1024
18:32:13 T:5980 NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio:
rocess()
18:32:13 T:2932 NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
18:32:13 T:5980 NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86019, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, pass-through
18:32:13 T:2932 NOTICE: fps: 23.976024, pwidth: 1920, pheight: 816, dwidth: 1920, dheight: 816
18:32:13 T:2932 NOTICE: Display resolution DESKTOP : 1920x1080 @ 60.00 - Full Screen (12)
18:32:13 T:2932 NOTICE: D3D: rendering method forced to DXVA2 processor
18:32:13 T:5980 ERROR: CWin32DirectSound::Initialize: cannot create secondary buffer (DSERR_UNSUPPORTED)
18:32:13 T:5980 ERROR: Creating a Null Audio Renderer, Check your audio settings as this should not happen
18:32:23 T:1904 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
18:32:23 T:1904 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
18:32:23 T:3756 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
18:32:23 T:3756 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: closing audio stream
18:32:23 T:3756 NOTICE: Closing audio stream
18:32:23 T:3756 NOTICE: Waiting for audio thread to exit
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