[chunged]

got XBMC running with showmix 2.5 skin on windows XP.

when i hit the power button on my remote it puts the PC on standby and when i reboot the PC in the morning or what ever, it loads back into XBMC, but no sound comes out. i have to exit xbmc (which doesn't ever work, i hit exit and it freezes so i have the ctrl+alt+delete to end the process) and start it again.

its just getting annoying coz i like to hide the keyboard and mouse away out of sight.

any fixes?

[joshuass]

how is everything connected to the tv? through a receiver? with hdmi?

[chunged]

straight to the TV with a DVI to HDMI cable, with the sound running through that using the ati HDMI drivers.

[dbldown768]

I dont understand... a DVI cable doesnt contain any audio? So are you somehow combining DVI with Toslink into the hdmi cable or some other audio source?

[joshuass]

HDMI connections are notoriously finicky in a computer environment. For starters, the connection is negotiated through a handshake. So, if one side (the computer) is shutdown, the connection is broken. However, since your going into standby, the computer still thinks upon returning to a normal state that connection is still good to go.

Its even worse with XP because XP's audio api is pretty crusty. I still have problems like this on occasion with Windows 7. The only way I can reliably have sound is to always shut my computer down after each use.

[chunged]

yeah i noticed the xp hdmi audio drivers are real lame.

i'm thinking of trying XBMC with linux, seems to work better with remotes and audio and such.

[joshuass]

Linux eh? I could never get HDMI sound to work through linux in XBMC :/

You can thank the HDCP working group and MPAA/RIAA bullshit for the mess that is HDMI lol.

[CrystalP]

Do you have similar problems with other media players or a music player?