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<blockquote data-quote="bawheid" data-source="post: 849532" data-attributes="member: 109533"><p>The audio "getting confused" isn't the fault of MediaPortal or your AVR; it's a fault of the anti-piracy brigade. It's a pretty common HDCP handshake problem (especially common when you put an AVR in the middle of the chain between your TV and PC). I'll break it down as basically as possible for the sake of anyone else reading this thread later:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Your TV and AVR contain what's called an EDID (Extended display identification data). This contains a bunch of information about your equipment, but most importantly what resolution it's capable of handling, and what type of sound it's capable of decoding (for example, most TV's can't decode DTS-MA or Dolby TrueHD).</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">When you turn on your equipment, it goes through a "handshake" process where it communicates along the chain exactly what everything is capable of doing. Every time you turn your TV on or off, that changes so it has to re-handshake and everything (very annoyingly) cuts out. </p><p></p><p>I know a lot of people have had success spoofing their EDID with a program called <a href="http://entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm" target="_blank">PowerStrip</a>, but I could never get it to work with my graphics card. In the end I bought a product called Gefen HDMI detective. It's basically a little box you connect via HDMI in between your AVR and your PC that maintains a constant EDID signal so there's no more handshake issues. I'm more than a little annoyed I had to pay over £100 just to fix something that shouldn't even be a problem in the first place, but it works if anyone else is thinking of buying one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bawheid, post: 849532, member: 109533"] The audio "getting confused" isn't the fault of MediaPortal or your AVR; it's a fault of the anti-piracy brigade. It's a pretty common HDCP handshake problem (especially common when you put an AVR in the middle of the chain between your TV and PC). I'll break it down as basically as possible for the sake of anyone else reading this thread later: [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1]Your TV and AVR contain what's called an EDID (Extended display identification data). This contains a bunch of information about your equipment, but most importantly what resolution it's capable of handling, and what type of sound it's capable of decoding (for example, most TV's can't decode DTS-MA or Dolby TrueHD).[/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1]When you turn on your equipment, it goes through a "handshake" process where it communicates along the chain exactly what everything is capable of doing. Every time you turn your TV on or off, that changes so it has to re-handshake and everything (very annoyingly) cuts out. [/INDENT] I know a lot of people have had success spoofing their EDID with a program called [URL='http://entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm']PowerStrip[/URL], but I could never get it to work with my graphics card. In the end I bought a product called Gefen HDMI detective. It's basically a little box you connect via HDMI in between your AVR and your PC that maintains a constant EDID signal so there's no more handshake issues. I'm more than a little annoyed I had to pay over £100 just to fix something that shouldn't even be a problem in the first place, but it works if anyone else is thinking of buying one. [/QUOTE]
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