Spent several hours struggling yesterday with my AV setup. After 6 months in JHB finally got around to hooking up my AV receiver, this time to my HTPC with new graphics card (Asus GT210).
My Marantz 4003 simply refused to let me choose one of the various surround modes when outputting stereo sound from movies via VLC (although worked fine with Foobar) over HDMI. If I tried to change surround mode it just flashed "96Khz PCM" at me. If I reduced the playback settings it would let me choose two or three modes, but no virtual surround (I wanted pseudo using Neo:movie).
No matter what I did with VLC, no joy. Finally downloaded PotPlayer, a really nice little player with very cool features - comes from Korean devs that do KMplayer.
VLC over HDMI seems to "lock" the AV receiver, and VLC does not seem to have filters that allow software conversion from stereo to surround. Over coax it worked fine, so I guess HDMI locks in formats more strictly.
PotPlayer lets you do all sorts of thing - AES3, various multi-speaker setups. (I'm not terribly clued up about this stuff, but the options list was a page long).
Now I can get my HTPC to do whatever combination of audio I want - and it's also a very neat and feature rich little player. :clap:
Tried XBMC under Win7, and it FAILED FAILED FAILED. Insta-crash if you tried to change any sound options. And didn't play movies.
My Marantz 4003 simply refused to let me choose one of the various surround modes when outputting stereo sound from movies via VLC (although worked fine with Foobar) over HDMI. If I tried to change surround mode it just flashed "96Khz PCM" at me. If I reduced the playback settings it would let me choose two or three modes, but no virtual surround (I wanted pseudo using Neo:movie).
No matter what I did with VLC, no joy. Finally downloaded PotPlayer, a really nice little player with very cool features - comes from Korean devs that do KMplayer.
VLC over HDMI seems to "lock" the AV receiver, and VLC does not seem to have filters that allow software conversion from stereo to surround. Over coax it worked fine, so I guess HDMI locks in formats more strictly.
PotPlayer lets you do all sorts of thing - AES3, various multi-speaker setups. (I'm not terribly clued up about this stuff, but the options list was a page long).
Now I can get my HTPC to do whatever combination of audio I want - and it's also a very neat and feature rich little player. :clap:
Tried XBMC under Win7, and it FAILED FAILED FAILED. Insta-crash if you tried to change any sound options. And didn't play movies.
