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Hi folks,

I'm Tim from the netherlands and a new member and BIG fan now off Xbmc!
I'm a IT Specialist but never in my life i heard off Xbmc! i cant figure out why!
Because its freaking HOT!
My big hobby's are audio and movies!, and stil...just found 1 week ago from a friend this software!
First i would like to give all the people who put time in this great piece of software a big thumb!

Well then my question ..

Yes i know some of linux/debian/unix/windows because its my work but i dint get xbmc to work with my hardware right now. so i installed windows 7 pro 64bits and works fine but i dont get DTS HD Master.
Heres my hardware:

(temporary hardware dont have budget right now to buy a minipc).

Laptop Compaq CQ60204ED
CPU AMD ATHLON 2core 2ghz 64bits
GPU NVIDIA 8200M g
4GB ram
40GB SSD intel disk
Amplifier AVR: Harman Kardon AVR255 --> to Samsung led tv.

I tryed alot of versions of xbmc and right now i use the nightly build of 7 november 2012.

When i play a movie in Xbmc thats have DTS HD master i only see DTS in my AVR.
When i go to windows and setup the speakers in hdmi audio i setup the 7.1 speakers set.
But if i look what is supported i only see dolby digital in settings hdmi audio.

Strange thing also is when i use new Nvidia drivers i dont get HDMI to work anymore. no screen no audio.
For some reason alot of people have this problem with geforce 8200m G.
I managed to install some newer drivers of hmi audio but no DTS HD master in the AVR255.

What do i do wrong? is my hardware not suporting the DTS HD master and Truehd etc?
Or is it a driver thingy and you gonna give me a link what i can try?

I read alot of pages but dont manage to get this to work.
I tryed also other output audio settings in Xbmc like wasapi? hdmi and directsound hdmi (wich is better?)

Sorry for my type mistakes .

greetings,

Tim

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o and if i test the 7.1 speakers all the speakers are responding in hdmi audio settings. (i have a 7.1 set)

Many of the nvidia GPUs does not support HD audio. May be that is the reason why you are not getting HD audio.

Hi Baijuxavior,

True but.... i do get dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1. If a play a movie (scfi movie 2012 for example) with DTS HD master i only receive DTS in my AVR255.
And thats strange, because maybe i'm wrong but i thought all the audio send direct into the AVR?
I'm going to test a movie with 7.1 (have to search one) but in the nvidia hdmi audio speaker settings i do hear all the 7.1 speakers.

If its a hardware thing then oke i can live with that for now, but i do hear alot of people talking about codes etc i thought maybe this is the case.

gr,

Tim

oke after some testing i tested a blueray
When i choose HDMI in the movie i see in my AVR: DTS Master High but the video not good (framerate 5 a sec effect) i dont have audio also.
When i choose in the same movie analoge i have sound good framerate and my AVR says: Multi-CH PCM
When i choose Digital i got DTS sound in the AVR and good Framerate/video.

What can i do about this?

I'm not familiar with your GPU. You can give the bitstreaming version of XBMC in this thread- Windows How to Bitstreaming using XBMC.........

1st thing to do would be to make sure Windows is correctly configured.

See my Post #3 @ http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1202209

If still not working after checking against that then you'll need to post a debug log refer to http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Log_file and post it to one of the sites listed in Section 3.1 then provide a link here.