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trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - Wishkeeper - 2013-11-27
Hi
I have used countless of hours and must say i´m ready to throw in the towl on this one.....I just can´t seem to get the DTS HD, Dolby true HD and so on to work, no matter what i do.
Here is my setup
motherboard asrock z77-ITX
cpu: I5 (Intel Core i5 3330)
Ram: 4GB
Harddisk: SSD 90GB (nice with a quick boot)
OS: Windows 8.1 x86 (nice with the quick boot and all ;-) )
XBMC version: Frodo 12.2 with aeon mpq 4
Reciever: Onkyo TX-nr-5010
the connection between onkyo and mobo is HDMI
now for some weird pics i hope you can explain because i can´t.
From what i have been able to read spdif / toslink don´t support DTS HD because it carry a lossless signal
http://imgur.com/xsd1KHt
but in this pic it seems it support all sorts of variety?
and from this link it shouldn´t be able to?
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=S/PDIF
and the second pic. i´m watching this over hdmi! and can play dts sound streams on spdif and so on but it seems the HDMI isn´t connected according to this pic?
http://imgur.com/zpkVg0r
I have installed the IMEI driver for intel. i have uninstalled the realtek driver as this is recommended. i have messed with my recievers sound settings, no trouble there i think.
The only thing i haven´t done is trying to install in win 7.
When i play ordinary dts and so on it works like a charm but when playing dts-HD-MA soundtracks it is like 5 frames per second with no sound.
I have tried with wasapi, directsound and so on but nothing seems to work better than other things.
any suggestions? I´m pulling my hair here
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - jjd-uk - 2013-11-27
The HDMI is showing connected, it'll be the TX-NR5010 device.
What does the properties of that device show?
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - Wishkeeper - 2013-11-27
http://imgur.com/moyGG4m
it supports 8 channels which should be enough, 24bit but no dts hd and so on? and HDCP is also supported
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - amedia - 2013-11-27
My setup is : Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Intel® 1155 7.1, Optical S/PDIF Channel Audio ATX Motherboard with Intel 3rd Generation Core i5-3570K CPU (4 x 3.40GHz, Ivy Bridge, Socket 1155, 6Mb L3 Cache, Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0) connected to NR608 Onkyo amp. DTS plays ok through HDMI in Win 7 64bit player, and VLC, and standard music plays okay in XBMC through HDMI, but in DTS XBMC player will not even start, but plays okay through SPDI when I change to those settings. As most of the DTS I have is 6 channels, I have just given up in trying to get XBMC playing DTS audio through HDMI .
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - jjd-uk - 2013-11-27
What devices are listed under "Sound, video and game controllers" in Windows Device Manager.
This Window
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - Thunder8 - 2013-11-28
In your first picture (http://imgur.com/xsd1KHt), you haven't selected DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD. Make sure you select all the supported codecs.
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - jjd-uk - 2013-11-28
Nothing to do with that since that's for the SPDIF device which doesn't support DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD.
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - Wishkeeper - 2013-11-29
to the spdif interface: yes i could corss them off but still the interface can´t run it but weird that it shows up as an option tho ;-)
I will post another pic tonight about the sound setting under device management. I have written to asrock support but no email has returned been ovver a week so it seems they are not to be used at all.
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - jjd-uk - 2013-11-29
It's strange that you got the 3 HDMI audio devices showing, I take it the PC only has one physical HDMI?
Only the TX-NR5010 device should be showing, so there could be a driver conflict/corruption somewhere.
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - Harro - 2013-11-29
Onkyo had some AVR's with bad HDMI boards. Onkyo HDMI Failure
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - Wishkeeper - 2013-12-02
Hi sorry for the late come back. been tied up at work. taking 70-710 mcp isn´t for kids ;-)
i promised i would return with a pic of my setup with in the device manager. Hping the danish is ok.
http://imgur.com/Dsv2ucm
Hmm maybe i should borrow a blueray player. maybe the new ps4 would be a good choice ;-) just to make sure it can play dts HD and so on.
jjd-uk: The pc only has 1 HDMI output so yes it look weird with tyhe 2 estra i also thought. But it could explain for the "no connection"
Harro: the bad HDMI seems like it is a "broken" vs "not broken" and it is showing the picture through Hdmi so i´m not sure this is the case. (but i don´t hope so, hearing about their customer service is quite bad)
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - Wishkeeper - 2013-12-28
Hi I have now concluded that nothing is wrong with the surround reciever. Bought a little blueray player today and that played like a fidle on the same HDMI port. DTS HD, DTS Master and so. Has anyone else had trouble with exactly this mainbord for HDMI dts HD and so on?
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - jjd-uk - 2013-12-28
Are you absolutely sure the Intel Management Engine Interface driver is installed, in Device Manager do you have an entry similar to:
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - Wishkeeper - 2013-12-28
I´m gonna check up on that lead......will return soon with info
RE: trouble getting DTS HD sound to work - SiliconKid - 2013-12-28
Lets go over some basics quickly:
1. You must be using HDMI. You already are.
2. You must be using the WASAPI audio engine in XBMC if you want to play HD Audio. Are you ?
3. You MUST have all of the various HD audio formats enabled in the XBMC audio settings. Do you ?
4. Your receiver must obviously support the type of audio streams you are sending it. But I think you already proved it does with your blu-ray player.