Re: Audio out for Recorded Movies and Video

Have you tried a RCA cable from the SPDIF output on your sound card to the
Dolby Digital Coaxial input on your receiver?

I assume that your receiver has a coaxial digital input that supports Dolby
Digital 5.1 surround sound.

Skip the HDMI connection completely, just to see if you can get 5.1 sound.
Of course you do have to be using a source that has 5.1 sound.

A DVD played in the DVD drive should work, if you setup the 5.1 sound in the
DVD's setup menu.

A lot of DVD movies have stereo sound (Dolby digital 2/0) as the default
sound. With a setup menu to get the 5.1 sound.

I play my DVD movies in PowerDVD 6, when I use MCE.
PowerDVD has its own setup for Audio, and SPDIF must be selected to get 5.1
sound output.

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"chris051865" <chris051865@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I played around with the audio card settings and the SPDIF is turned on.
It
looks like I need to find a way to turn off the HDMI audio feed from my
PC.
When I set the SPDIF as the default, I get no audio, so I need to find out
how to get it working. I am sure it is some settings like you said
earlier
in the thread.

Once I get a final resolution (or have more questions) I will update the
board.

Thanks for your help.

Chris

"CSM1" wrote:

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

"CSM1" wrote:

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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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