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2012-06-24, 01:35
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-24, 01:36 by emailcraigs.)
HD 5450 and Onkyo receiver. Has anybody got this combo to work on XBMC and could give me a few pointers? I've tried all the new drivers after uninstalling etc. I've also tried most of the newer builds. I simply get no sound and a drastic slow down in the video playing and it sometimes freezes; the same symptoms I see many are having. I know that my receiver works with DTS-HD as I've used it with stand alone devices just fine. Thanks for any help!
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I keep getting "CDVDPlayerAudio:: Discontinuity" errors in my log file, video is juddering making stuff unwatchable. My threads on this keep getting ignored so I guess I'll post in here.
Happening on both direct sound and wasapi settings, with synch to display etc on or off. Is this even being looked into?
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My post about it is here:http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=134351
It's only doing it through coax/spdif. When I switch to speakers (my headphones are connected via 3.5mm in the PC) the videos play fine without that error and without juddering.
So for some reason AE doesn't like the surround system, or it has issues outputting vis optical.
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Will there be Dolby ProLogic IIx decoding in future releases?
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Well for one I didn't ask for your opinion on my setup. You keep spouting about HDMI, but like many; my sound system is of modest value and does not support HDMI.
I do get the full benefits of sound, dolby digital and DTS are nice formats in which my speaker system does decode and sounds beautiful. I have never experienced HD sound, but I seriously doubt the human ear can tell the difference despite what people claim.
As for AE, it is designed to do anything audio related and should not only be geared toward HDMI. Spdif is a very popular connection used by a lot of people, and AE should be supporting it better.
As for my TV setup, that is the native resolution of my TV it is a modest "HD ready" TV; a few years old now and does indeed have an odd resolution. I have tried setting it to 1080p but the resulting picture looks a little odd.
As for older builds, the odd thing is the one I was using has started dropping frames like the builds after, no idea why.
As I said, it only does this when using the optical out. If I set it to wasapi speakers which I have my headphones connected it plays it fine. So obviously AE has some compatibility issues that need fixing ASAP.
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And to add, It's not will all audio formats. For example ghost in the shell series I have uses AAC 5.1 and has frame drops. Movies with DTS though no frame drops.
An anime I have uses ogg and is mono has frame drops. All with that discontinuity error.
But on speakers mode (analogue headphones) works fine.
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so far I'm only getting it with DVDs when interlacing is OFF. Also, funnily enough I'm only experiencing it on my AMD E-450-based HTPC. When I try the same test on my Core i7/nVidia GT240 workstation, it's fine.