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Just occasionally one can get lucky and it turns out that it really is quite simple - usually because the user (sufferer) has done something quite obviously daft. I'd be happy to plead guilty! Many years ago, before the wonderful advent of retirement, I used to work in IT. It usually was something the user had done without realising (or equally likely, he was trying to do something no-one had told him couldn't be done!). Never hurts to ask!
Anyway, I was just going to update after some further thoughts and testing. It turns out that neither WMP nor WMC can handle this situation on my system. Both stop playing immediately and don't recover when I turn the TV back on. Both are still running but report an audio error. The difference with MP is that while it is still running it's consuming large amount of CPU but not talking to the screen or anything else.
Upshot is, I now am more inclined to think that it's a handshake issue so have gone back to the SPDIF connection. Problem with this is I can't seem to use MP audio renderer on all TV channels, only those using AC3. There are also lip synch issues that MPAR should have helped me to resolve.
Just occasionally one can get lucky and it turns out that it really is quite simple - usually because the user (sufferer) has done something quite obviously daft. I'd be happy to plead guilty! Many years ago, before the wonderful advent of retirement, I used to work in IT. It usually was something the user had done without realising (or equally likely, he was trying to do something no-one had told him couldn't be done!). Never hurts to ask!
Anyway, I was just going to update after some further thoughts and testing. It turns out that neither WMP nor WMC can handle this situation on my system. Both stop playing immediately and don't recover when I turn the TV back on. Both are still running but report an audio error. The difference with MP is that while it is still running it's consuming large amount of CPU but not talking to the screen or anything else.
Upshot is, I now am more inclined to think that it's a handshake issue so have gone back to the SPDIF connection. Problem with this is I can't seem to use MP audio renderer on all TV channels, only those using AC3. There are also lip synch issues that MPAR should have helped me to resolve.
