2012-07-01, 12:33
I think I'm missing the correct settings and it's driving me mad.
I have a windows 7 based media centre running XBMC (Aeon Nox, 12.2 Frodo) as it's main role for music and HD/ SD movies stored upon the hard discs and also via the DVD drive, other than that, I sometimes browse the net on it from within XBMc via Google Chrome and XBMC's Advance Launcher, or minimising/ quitting XBMC and running Google Chrome solely from windows. It has a singular HDMI lead running from the media centre to my Denon Amp, then that has a singular HDMI lead going up to the TV.
I seem to be having issues in regard to audio settings and the issues that they create.
I watch Blu Rays from within XBMC with AnyDVD running in the background. I had a few audio issues and after some help and reading, I set the (Settings/ System/ Audio) audio settings as HDMI, 5.1 and Audio Output Device and the Passthrough Output Device to WASAPI.
Now, when I want to watch catch up's or stream films from online using my internet browse (Google Chome in this case), I sometimes quit XBMC and load Chrome from the start menu, sometimes I just minimise XBMC and load Chrome from the start menu, or at other times (ideally if it works) use the advanced launcher to load up Google Chrome which it does load just fine. At some point I had issues with audio while trying to watch online streams, or XBMC not having audio. One or the other.
I then followed instructions to go to (Control Panel, Audio, Properties) and set 'Exclusive' mode under my sound cards properties. This seem to fix the issues I was having at the time. But I guess gives XBMC exclusive use of the audio? But still using Chrome via the advance launcher still doesn't work, I guess it is technically launching a separate program.
So I quit XBMC and tried Chrome, still no audio. I could only get Chrome to work with audio by unticking the 'Exclusive' options.
I then hadn't watched a film for ages, so I loaded one up from the library. The film was slow and choppy with no audio. I managed to track this down to the WASAPI setting. I changed one of these to Direct Audio and I was going again with smooth film and audio.
Can I get everything to have audio whenever it wants it? XBMC to work fine and also when minimising XBMC, Chrome will have audio.
XBMC to have HD audio in 5.1.
Audio to work and the film to display smoothly with no juddering.
I currently have audio but I'm sure I've made something worse. I can normally get it working by fiddling, but I can't seem to get everything going at once. Am I missing something, I seem to be going around and around in circles with no real perfect setup.
Help please!
I have a windows 7 based media centre running XBMC (Aeon Nox, 12.2 Frodo) as it's main role for music and HD/ SD movies stored upon the hard discs and also via the DVD drive, other than that, I sometimes browse the net on it from within XBMc via Google Chrome and XBMC's Advance Launcher, or minimising/ quitting XBMC and running Google Chrome solely from windows. It has a singular HDMI lead running from the media centre to my Denon Amp, then that has a singular HDMI lead going up to the TV.
I seem to be having issues in regard to audio settings and the issues that they create.
I watch Blu Rays from within XBMC with AnyDVD running in the background. I had a few audio issues and after some help and reading, I set the (Settings/ System/ Audio) audio settings as HDMI, 5.1 and Audio Output Device and the Passthrough Output Device to WASAPI.
Now, when I want to watch catch up's or stream films from online using my internet browse (Google Chome in this case), I sometimes quit XBMC and load Chrome from the start menu, sometimes I just minimise XBMC and load Chrome from the start menu, or at other times (ideally if it works) use the advanced launcher to load up Google Chrome which it does load just fine. At some point I had issues with audio while trying to watch online streams, or XBMC not having audio. One or the other.
I then followed instructions to go to (Control Panel, Audio, Properties) and set 'Exclusive' mode under my sound cards properties. This seem to fix the issues I was having at the time. But I guess gives XBMC exclusive use of the audio? But still using Chrome via the advance launcher still doesn't work, I guess it is technically launching a separate program.
So I quit XBMC and tried Chrome, still no audio. I could only get Chrome to work with audio by unticking the 'Exclusive' options.
I then hadn't watched a film for ages, so I loaded one up from the library. The film was slow and choppy with no audio. I managed to track this down to the WASAPI setting. I changed one of these to Direct Audio and I was going again with smooth film and audio.
Can I get everything to have audio whenever it wants it? XBMC to work fine and also when minimising XBMC, Chrome will have audio.
XBMC to have HD audio in 5.1.
Audio to work and the film to display smoothly with no juddering.
I currently have audio but I'm sure I've made something worse. I can normally get it working by fiddling, but I can't seem to get everything going at once. Am I missing something, I seem to be going around and around in circles with no real perfect setup.
Help please!