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<blockquote data-quote="synthdood" data-source="post: 185928" data-attributes="member: 47606">Interesting discussion! I am in a similar situation. For MP3, DVD and DTS I want to feed the 5.1 through spdif to the receiver and simultaneously analog to the the TV. As soon as you configure MP to output AC3 and DTS through spdif, the analog out becomes silent, so everything needs to come from the spdif output. The option to route an analog signal from the receiver back to the TV (assuming the receiver has a down-mixed stereo line-out that works when a 5.1 stream is being decoded!) could be problematic timing wise. Most LCD and plasma TVs have a delay of 20-100mSec. When using the Y-split method one can compensate for this with the delay in the receiver so that audio from the main speakers and audio from the TV are in sync. When feeding the TV from the receiver however, this may not give the desired result if the line-out is also being delayed. The TV will just add its delay to that of the receiver and the result is that it will not be possible to get the TV and the main speakers in sync.&nbsp; I am just in the process of finishing a new HTPC (I will post in the ongoing/finished HTPC project threads one of these days) and if I can find the time to actually finish the thing I will do some tests to see if looping back from the receiver is a viable option. It probably also depends very much on the type of receiver, so what may work for one receiver may not work for another.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="synthdood, post: 185928, member: 47606"] Interesting discussion! I am in a similar situation. For MP3, DVD and DTS I want to feed the 5.1 through spdif to the receiver and simultaneously analog to the the TV. As soon as you configure MP to output AC3 and DTS through spdif, the analog out becomes silent, so everything needs to come from the spdif output. The option to route an analog signal from the receiver back to the TV (assuming the receiver has a down-mixed stereo line-out that works when a 5.1 stream is being decoded!) could be problematic timing wise. Most LCD and plasma TVs have a delay of 20-100mSec. When using the Y-split method one can compensate for this with the delay in the receiver so that audio from the main speakers and audio from the TV are in sync. When feeding the TV from the receiver however, this may not give the desired result if the line-out is also being delayed. The TV will just add its delay to that of the receiver and the result is that it will not be possible to get the TV and the main speakers in sync. I am just in the process of finishing a new HTPC (I will post in the ongoing/finished HTPC project threads one of these days) and if I can find the time to actually finish the thing I will do some tests to see if looping back from the receiver is a viable option. It probably also depends very much on the type of receiver, so what may work for one receiver may not work for another. [/QUOTE]

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