DTS-HD and TrueHD pass-trough with Xonar HDAV1.3 (1 Viewer)

[BMan]

I made a guide for how I got this working. The only bug I see is after playing a Dolby True HD audio format, the Xonar stays locked in that mode. I have to exit Media Portal and then restart Media Portal.

 

[The_Iceman]

This "getting Stuck in HD Mode" seems to be a normal issue with Arcsoft renderer ... You can circumvent it with switching to a non hd Track before closing the Video.

Thanks for your Guide BMan!!

 

[ECS]

That pretty BMan work. This community needs people with this devotion and disposal to help. Congratulations.
Thanks a lot. I go to try this your guide. Already given up it clinks you to use of the Xonar and bought a ATI 5870, but not yet I installed.
Through this your guide I go to try to continue to use the Xonar.

 

[CypherMK]

I made a guide for how I got this working. The only bug I see is after playing a Dolby True HD audio format, the Xonar stays locked in that mode. I have to exit Media Portal and then restart Media Portal.

Thx for the guide! I will try this guide as soon as I have some time.

 

[mattyx79]

Yeah, have had the same issues...

@ mattyx79: Try not to use Arcsoft Renderer Version .170 ... this is the cause of this issue

I reinstalled version .161 and now I have the HD audio, but the video is choppy and the audio cuts in and out....

 

[dlthorpe]

How do i get this TMT3 .161 Renderer? Not sure if the version in my TMT is the correct one! Im now running Win7 64 and am trying to folloow the "Guide for Xonar Bitstreaming".

The guide doesnt mention anything about where to get TMT3, so i just used the CD i got with my Xonar. The version I think is TMT3_ASUS_Xonar_v3_0_13_136_20090720.

Any idea if this is ok?

Thanks,
D

 

[dlthorpe]

Ok ive just majorly edited this post as ive been playing since and have now sorted it!!!

My steps...

1. Fresh Win7 64 Install (Got onboard HD3200, and have the Xonar 1.3 Slim).

2. Installed Catalyst 10.4 drivers, latest Win7 Xonar Driver).
3. Installed all my apps, TMT3, MP 110 RC2 etc. Basically setting up the entire machine without doing codecs.
4. Configured Xonar to HDMI, 8 channels, DTS Interactive.
5. Configured PC to Playback to output on "S/PDIF Pass-through" for the Xonar.
6. Taken images / system restores just in case
7. Installed latest SAF 5.
8. Now ive followed some of the steps in the guide by BMan (you legend)...
8.1. Register the audio renderer.
8.2. Install HD Pack 2.3 only selecting whats shown in guide.
8.3. Configured MP as per whats shown in the guide.

Note: being lazy i didnt actually reinstall ffdshow or edit the codec merits using RadLight. I figured i would do this if it didnt work, but it worked without me needing to.

9. Now i launch MP and try to play something with a DTS-HD track and my amp lights up correctly. I can still play normal DD5.1, DTS too.

HOWEVER i do have some problems...

1. After installing the HD Pack 2.3 my copy of TMT3 no longer works. It loads ok but i can no longer play a mounted BluRay image. This worked immediately before installing the HD Pack. I was using TMT3 as it was the only player I found that could send the bluray DTS:MA and TrueHD audio to my amp (thus amp showing the light). Not sure what i need to do here to get it working again?

2. All WMV files do not play at all if the "Audio Renderer" is set to the "ArcSoft Audio Renderer". If i play one, it flickers the screen (prob coz i have refresh rate changer) and then im back to MP. However MP is completely locked up and all i can do is crash it. If i set my audio renderer back to "Default DirectSound" then wmv files play fine. But of course doing this breaks the mkv playback for files that have a DTS:MA or TrueHD audio track.

3. All files that have a MP3 2.0 audio track load ok, but there is no sound. This also only happens going through the "ArcSoft Audio Renderer". Same issue as no.2 above.

4. The other issue i have which isnt really related is all WMV files do not play their digital audio tracks (obviously when the audio rendered mentioned above is not ArcSoft). It all comes through as stereo. I can get around it if in the FFDShow Audio settings i tick "AC3(S/PDIF encode mode". This then makes wmv files play but i then get crashes playing mkv files. I think its something to do with passing through the DD, DTS as well. Like its getting in a loop.

Feel like im close to an understanding here but not quite there yet!

Any ideas how i can sort these issues at all? Really appreciate the help!!!

Thanks,
D.

 

[nicsergio]

Hello

For some time I'm trying to configure MediaPortal to play files with lossless audio.
This I did: my Onkyo receiver decodes both DTS HD-MA and Dolby True HD, thanks to FFDShow and Arcsoft Audio Renderer

This is my system:

Windows Xp Sp3
Asus Xonar HDAV Slim - Last Driver For XP V5.12.8.1773
Mediaportal V1.0.2

In ffdshow Audio Decoder I've setting:
-HDMI pass-through all (Dolby/DTS/DD+/DTS HD MA/TrueHD)
-connect as PCM first
-Only Xonar format

But I have a problem that I can not answer, I tried them all:
when play file with normal DTS or Dolby, it's all right the first time, then it seems that the audio system remains blocked, I no longer have the sound until I close MediaPortal, while the receiver continues to display the last type of audio heard...

THIS IS NOT HAPPENING WITH FILE HAVING LOSSLESS AUDIO: when the file is finished the audio type return "stereo" and I can play another file correctly..

I tried various versions of components, but the problem is always the same:

ffdshow:
-rev3227 (SAF4)
-rev3370
-rev3476
-rev3488

TotalMedia Theatre 3:
V 141
V 161
V 170
V 180

At the bottom I discovered that if I reset the flag "connect as PCM first" in ffdshow, then get the reverse behavior:
DTS/Dolby running smoothly, but I can not send to receiver DTS HD MA and Dolby true HD...

We want to thank those who want to help and sorry my english..

 

[hoborg]

nicsergio: You need Vista/Win7 to passthrough HD audio.

 

[The_Iceman]

That's Not correct ... It also Works with XP!
The Problems you describe are there, because of the arcsoft renderer !
The renderer get's Stuck under some circumstances...