Re: Audio out for Recorded Movies and Video

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SPDIF is simply the Dolby Digital Audio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDIF

Your receiver has a coaxial digital input decoder for the Dolby Digital
signal and produces the multi-channel sound.
Depending on the encoding in the recording.

DVD's have Dolby Digital 5.1 sound most of the time.

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"chris051865" <chris051865@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Now I feel inadequate <g>. I will do a little research on SPDIF. My
guess
is I will need to configure the Realtek audio card to tell it to feed the
digital audio out. Will I also need to set something on my Nividia 8500
GT
card as well? Are there any specific Vista settings, etc?

Sorry for all the questions, and I certainly appreciate your help.

Chris

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"CSM1" wrote:

"chris051865" <chris051865@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I believe I have things pretty much set up with my new HP Pavilion
desktop.
However, I can't seem to hear any audio from recorded movies or
other
video.
When I play back the display setup and other recorded video from
concerts,
news clips, etc. the audio works fine. I have an HDMI connection
from
my
GeForce 8500 GT card. It seems to only not work on recorded movies.
I
selected the sample movies that come with MCE and they don't work.
I
tried
to record some TV clips and the video works fine but the audio is
dead.
I
have a Realtek HD audio card as well. Do I need to connect an audio
out
feed? I didn't think so given I am getting audio from my HDMI
connection.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Chris

Yep, you probably need to connect the audio out from your sound card
to
an
associated audio connector on the TV.

Read you TV manual to see which port is paired with the HDMI connector
for
audio.


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Thanks for the help. I will give it a shot. I actually have to drive
the
audio out of my PC card into my receiver. There is a separate digital
RCA
jack that I can tie it too so hopefully I can pick up the audio from
the
receiver to the TV. The question is whether my receiver will drive
audio
it
is getting from the HDMI feed and the RCA jack at the same time <g>.

Chris

If you use the Digital Audio jack, don't forget to configure all of the
parts of the system for SPDIF output, both digital and analog.

SPDIF has to be configured in every software that handles Video and
Audio.
DVD player, MCE, Windows Media Player. It can be very complicated. And it
is
easy to forget one.

I do use the SPDIF output from MCE, works great once you get everything
configured to use SPDIF.

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