2010-11-27, 19:46
@STEELMAN, I wasn't reporting a bug on my own rights, I was simply responding to someone's post about the exact same problem I experienced, adding a mind-fart in the process. Sorry about that...
@John.eyl, my amp is a NAD T747. Handshake has been an issue between the HD 5750 and the NAD previously; I'd pause the film then when I resumed the sound was sometimes missing. Had to switch audio channel on the amp to a different channel and back to get the sound back. That was with AMD's audio drivers. I then switched to Realtek's drivers (most resent edition), and the problem has pretty much disappeared. It seems to me that the Realtek drivers handles the handshake part better than AMD's drivers. I still get the occasional drop, but now it's only a rare occasion, often with several days, or even weeks, between occurrences.
Based on previous experience, that the Realtek driver is the best for this audio chip, I didn't even think to try different drivers when I got problems yesterday with Dolby Digital audio in the RC of the new XBMC. I simply went back to the previous version of XBMC, which I knew worked... After trying for about an hour with different audio settings, that is, none of them working.
By the way, XBMC didn't report any error either, no error messages. Just no sound... When I tried with Linux I sometimes would get the message on screen that it wasn't able to render the sound, or something, but not here. The movie played fine, but with no sound... Bug reports are usually only written out when the program itself gives an error message. But granted, I haven't read up on error reporting (as I wasn't reporting an error), I just let the OP know he was not alone...
@John.eyl, my amp is a NAD T747. Handshake has been an issue between the HD 5750 and the NAD previously; I'd pause the film then when I resumed the sound was sometimes missing. Had to switch audio channel on the amp to a different channel and back to get the sound back. That was with AMD's audio drivers. I then switched to Realtek's drivers (most resent edition), and the problem has pretty much disappeared. It seems to me that the Realtek drivers handles the handshake part better than AMD's drivers. I still get the occasional drop, but now it's only a rare occasion, often with several days, or even weeks, between occurrences.
Based on previous experience, that the Realtek driver is the best for this audio chip, I didn't even think to try different drivers when I got problems yesterday with Dolby Digital audio in the RC of the new XBMC. I simply went back to the previous version of XBMC, which I knew worked... After trying for about an hour with different audio settings, that is, none of them working.
By the way, XBMC didn't report any error either, no error messages. Just no sound... When I tried with Linux I sometimes would get the message on screen that it wasn't able to render the sound, or something, but not here. The movie played fine, but with no sound... Bug reports are usually only written out when the program itself gives an error message. But granted, I haven't read up on error reporting (as I wasn't reporting an error), I just let the OP know he was not alone...
