Re: Audio out for Recorded Movies and Video

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Is your HDMI cable from MCE connected to the Receiver and then to the TV
set?

What happens if you connect the HDMI cable from MCE video card to the HDMI
input on the TV set?

You should have a DVD or CD Digital audio input on the receiver.

There is bound to be a digital audio input that you can select on the
receiver by itself.

Isn't there some audio input on the receiver for a standalone DVD player.
Standalone DVD players have a Digital audio output for 5.1 sound. Usually it
is a coaxial output.

The idea is to get output from MCE to your speakers in 5.1 sound. After you
have confirmed that you are getting 5.1 sound from your Media Center
computer, you can then figure out how to connect everything the way you want
it to work.

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"chris051865" <chris051865@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I do have a receiver that is for home theaters. I can program the audio
feed
for the SPDIF input. However, I can't 'eliminate the audio feed coming
from
the HDMI connection. At least I haven't figured that one out yet. The
HDMI
input is either connected and mapped or not.

"CSM1" wrote:

Your receiver, is it at TV set or do you have a Home Theater receiver?

If you have a Home Theater receiver you should be able to just select
that
sound input on the Receiver. You can watch the Video on the TV set.

When I talk about Home Theater receivers, I mean one of these devices.
http://www.hometheatermag.com/buyersguides/avreceivers/

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"chris051865" <chris051865@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The problem I have is the HMDI feeds video so I can't just disable it.
I
think I might switch over to DVI or S-Video just to isolate the video
feed
from audio. That way I can play around with the SPDIF connection.

My receiver does have a Dolby Digital Coaxial input, so I have that all
connected. I just need to be able to isolate the audio and ensure it
is
using the SPDIF versus the HDMI audio.



"CSM1" wrote:

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
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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
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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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