[xbmcuser002]

Hi

I have a HP dm1-4016au notebook which I am connecting the HDMI cable to my Samsung TV then connecting the TV via optical to my Marantz amp. The amp only recognises stereo coming through. My ATV2 correctly sends through 5.1. To troublshoot I install XBMCbuntu which worked 1st go!.
The laptop in an AMD E300 proc and an AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics. I have used the latest drivers 12.4, beta 12.6 and previous 12.3 to no avail.

I am lost and spent too many hours and feel I am going around in circles. Any assistance would be much appreciated.

*I have never posted before...if anyone requires further info on my setup please advise....thx

[HeresJohnny]

Is your volume set at 100%?

[xbmcuser002]

sure is....

[steelman1991]

Limited knowledge, but unless your TV can natively pass DTS to your receiver (which few can) then 2 channel is the best your likely to get, with this set-up. A check of your TV specs will tell you if its possible - what TV are you using?

What you can do is set-up your receiver to convert the 2 channel feed to 'pseudo' surround using one of the DSP modes on it.

If you can the best connection would be

laptop - HDMI - receiver - HDMI - Television

though I am assuming that you connect in the way you describe because of a lack of HDMI inputs?

[xbmcuser002]

As described above, I used XBMCBUNTU on the same laptop it worked, It is connected in this way as I do not have a HDMI port on my AMP

[steelman1991]

At least provide the information asked, what is the TV model, because unless it can pass DTS I don't see how it could work in xbmc at all - irrespective of version used (Though I have no experience of linux distro at all). AFAIK all versions use the same basic audio engines. However I am happy for someone with more knowledge to prove me wrong.

Perhaps time to provide a debug log - see here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=42708, this is more likely to get the attention of the devs, or at least someone with more knowledge than I.

[xbmcuser002]

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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