[Wishkeeper]

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

[jjd-uk]

The HDMI is showing connected, it'll be the TX-NR5010 device.

What does the properties of that device show?

[Wishkeeper]

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

[amedia]

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 .

[jjd-uk]

What devices are listed under "Sound, video and game controllers" in Windows Device Manager.

This Window

[Thunder8]

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.

[jjd-uk]

Nothing to do with that since that's for the SPDIF device which doesn't support DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD.

[Wishkeeper]

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.

[jjd-uk]

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.

[Harro]

Onkyo had some AVR's with bad HDMI boards. Onkyo HDMI Failure

[Wishkeeper]

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)

[Wishkeeper]

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?

[jjd-uk]

Are you absolutely sure the Intel Management Engine Interface driver is installed, in Device Manager do you have an entry similar to:

[Wishkeeper]

I´m gonna check up on that lead......will return soon with info

[SiliconKid]

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.