DTS sound (DVD) with MediaPortal (1 Viewer)

[d-fader]

Hi people,

I recently bought my first AMP (Yamaha X-V461) and I'm trying to get a DVD played with DTS sound through MediPortal. I am using an S/PDIF connection (on-board Ac '97) and when I start PowerDVD and select 'Use SPDIF' in the 'Speaker Environment' groupbox at the Audio tab in the configuration Window of PowerDVD, DTS is working. Now I want to play DVD's with MediaPortal (duh) and I can't seem to get it to work. It just uses STEREO (at least my amp. shows only two speakers (left and right) in stead of 6).

I checked the configuration in MediaPortal and I'm getting confused. There is an 'Audio renderer' and 'Audio codec' field and I can select all kinds of options, which don't mean anything to me . At the renderer I e.g. see Cyberlink Audio renderer (PDVD7.x) and at the codec I have even more strange options: Cyberlink Audio Decoder, Cyberlink MPEG Muxer, Cyberlink Audio Decode (PDVD7.x), Cyberlink Audio Decoder (PDVD UPnP). I really don't understand what these options do and I can't seem to find anything (useful) on the internet about these options.

I actually thought the sound didn't have to be decoded at all, since my amp. will do that, but I can't select 'None' or something, I really don't understand anything about it

My question is fairly simple, how do I get DTS output while playing DVD (or video's ftm) in MediaPortal? It's probably an RTFM issue, but if someone can show me the M I need to RTF then I would be very grateful


Thanks!




MediaPortal Version: Bleeding edge (i.e. latest SVN)
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: MCE 2005
CPU Type: AMD Sempron 3000+
HDD: Maxtor (500GiB) external in Toshiba casing, 160GiB internal
Memory: 512MB
Motherboard: Asus K8n (cheap)
Motherboard Chipset: NForce 3
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: Geforce TI4600
Video Card Driver: Latest NVidia
Sound Card: Realtek AC'97
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver: 5.10
Power Supply: ASUS
Remote: Microsoft MCE remote and keyboard
TV:
TV - HTPC Connection: Composite converted to s-video

lol, never saw the 'DirectShow Filter Control' option pane in the configuration. Still don't know what it is if fact doing, but I selected 5.1 and s/pdif everywhere I could and now it works like a charm

Just read over it I guess...

 

[dman_lfc]

Audio renderer: Default Direct Sound Device
Audio Codec: CyberLink Audio Decoder

Then in the MediaPortal codec settings under DirectShow filter control set the PowerDVD audio codecs to use SPDIF.

DMAN