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<blockquote data-quote="phil-t" data-source="post: 40304" data-attributes="member: 18721">It must be the DRM, I've played numerous WMV-HD's in mediaportal without issue..On the 5.1 sound front, this is a problem with WMV-HD's, they carry mutliple analogue streams encoded in WMA Professional, as mentioned you need something (software or hardware) to encode these discreet audio channels into an ac-3 stream to output to your receiver..I've managed to get ffdshow's audio decoder to realtime encode these into an ac-3 stream from zoomplayer, but I can't get mediaportal's built in video player to use the ffdshow audio decoder in the same way..In the end, I've just ordered a really cheap soundcard that has hardware ac-3 (Dolby Digital) encoding, in europe all we can get is the Terratec Aureon 7.1 pci, but in the US there is the HiTec X-Mystique 7.1 card.. both use the same chipset to do the work, but it does mean much more compatibiliy and less CPU overhead then a software decoder..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="phil-t, post: 40304, member: 18721"] It must be the DRM, I've played numerous WMV-HD's in mediaportal without issue.. On the 5.1 sound front, this is a problem with WMV-HD's, they carry mutliple analogue streams encoded in WMA Professional, as mentioned you need something (software or hardware) to encode these discreet audio channels into an ac-3 stream to output to your receiver.. I've managed to get ffdshow's audio decoder to realtime encode these into an ac-3 stream from zoomplayer, but I can't get mediaportal's built in video player to use the ffdshow audio decoder in the same way.. In the end, I've just ordered a really cheap soundcard that has hardware ac-3 (Dolby Digital) encoding, in europe all we can get is the Terratec Aureon 7.1 pci, but in the US there is the HiTec X-Mystique 7.1 card.. both use the same chipset to do the work, but it does mean much more compatibiliy and less CPU overhead then a software decoder.. [/QUOTE]

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