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Hi everyone,
I think I've exhausted my capability in trying to get HDMI audio to work when I play my blueray iso's...
I have tried everything I can think of to get HDMI audio setting to work with my blueray iso's but to no avail.
HDMI works if the audio setting is used on a DVD rip, but not blueray.
I can however get the blueray iso to play just fine if I select optical or analog, but not HDMI.
I did not have this problem in XBMC 11...
Is this a bug?
Thanks in advance,
CN
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Hi Blueray, thanks for responding...
I followed your link, and as far as I can tell, everything is correct...
I have my HTPC connected by Monster HDMI to my Pioneer VSX-50 receiver. The receiver to my Samsung by HDMI.
I have my VSX-50 receiver set up in Windows 8 as the default playback device and set to 7.1 audio. I can hear all the speakers clearly. Windows is up to date and I have the latest nVidia drivers loaded for my video card.
What's weird, is that everything works fine in Windows and in XBMC for HDMI use as long as I don't try a bluray...
I still don't know why it won't work...I will send some screenshots and hopefully the answer will be obvious.
Thanks,
CN
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I had problems with Frodo using the DirectSound HDMI output, changing to the WSAPA HDMI output cured them.
This included very slow playback for tracks with HD audio.
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2013-03-19, 00:26
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-19, 00:32 by CheeseNacho.)
That fixed it!
I followed the instructions in both posts and setup windows as you had.
I then tried it in XBMC and failed again...however, I started to uncheck the radio buttons and quickly figured out that it was the DTS-HD radio button that caused the extremely slow video playback. All other settings in the radio button worked just fine.
I will have to double check my documentation on my Pioneer VSX-50 as I thought it was DTS-HD capable...
I'm very glad this is fixed! Thanks a ton to everyone for their input!
The CheeseNacho....
Update 1:
My receiver is DTS-HD capable, but it does NOT show up as a supported format in Windows 8. The driver date is Jan 2013, so I'm not sure what's up with that....
Is there a way to update the supported formats in Windows for a device like my VSX-50?
Thanks....
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Post#3 mentions Nvidia which indeed I did miss, but no mention of model.
Post#5 is from someone else so not sure what your point is.
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Well, I wouldn't have believed it, but the NVidia driver update did the trick. I could clearly see the formats supported in Windows Playback devices now show the missing formats. I flipped over to XBMC, pushed the DTS-HD radio button and streamed a bluray iso and it worked immediately.
For the record, my video card is an NVidia GeoForce GT 610 with 2 gigs RAM...not the fastest, but does quite well for HTPC purposes. The driver was a stock Microsoft driver dated January of 2013, so I thought I was safe. That was my mistake in post #3...I quickly scanned the driver and did not notice it was the Microsoft driver versus an NVidia driver.
I did have the WASAPI setting setup in Audio under XBMC, but I did not see a big difference when I was trying to work through the problem...(prior to new NVidia driver).
In the end, setting up the Windows control panel as was mentioned earlier and the advent of the latest GPU driver from nVidia seems to have removed all playback issues with bluray HD audio...
Thanks to everybody that chimed in for the help...it was very enlightening and helpful!
CN