Ok, I'm not sure where to put this since I don't know if it's hardware or software related, I have a feeling it's software related though. I have a sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum and a set of 6.1 surround sound speakers. Now when I ran my calibrator DVD to check to see if all my channels were working right, I became alarmed to notice that my CMSS was turned on (one of those surround sound emulator functions). So, I turned it off to let only true surround sound tracks work on the appropriate channels. When I did this, all surround on the rear channels and sub ceased to work. Using Creative's channel ID tool, I did verify that the creative application could output on each channel indiviually, but what am I missing to make surround work in Media Portal? My Audio codec is currently set for AC3Filter and my Audio renderer is set to SB Audigy 2 Audio [DF00]. Any help that can be given to get true surround working is immensly appreciated!!!
Surround sound not working right (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter crawdaddy
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If you are using the analogue cables out, then you dont need AC3Filter. Just use your normal mpeg2 codecs and tell it to decode to 5.1 channels.
You are definately using analogue out right?
Check in Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices that its set to 5.1
Control of what the sound is being decoded to is setup inside the codec.
Check in Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices that its set to 5.1
Control of what the sound is being decoded to is setup inside the codec.
... me too. I´ve a digital amplifier, but using the analogue output, because WinDVD won´t output DVD-Playback digital.crawdaddy said:
So my settings are Audigy 2 ZS on analogue speakers, output-settings in audio codec to digital (S/PDIF) and it´s working perfectly - nothing connected to S/PDIF, but it´s working.
If i try the standard-analogue one, with speaker-selektion etc. - just stereo is there, doesn´t matter which codec i use...
Try using "Reclock" - select waveout as the renderer.
This fixed my issues (I have a audigy2 too, though this may be coincidence).
Without using Reclock I get only stereo - even though I can see all 6 channels being output by (eg ffdshow) and delivered to the renderer.
When I did a search I found something about it being a MS bug - that is perhaps fixed in MCE - although this is hearsay.
Anyway, try "Reclock" - set it to forced, waveout - and see how it goes.
Though Reclock might introduce other issues... I know some people don't like it, for me it works just fine and is a must if only for the fact it solves my multi-channel analog sound issue.
Oh BTW I'm also using kxproject drivers:
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1
This fixed my issues (I have a audigy2 too, though this may be coincidence).
Without using Reclock I get only stereo - even though I can see all 6 channels being output by (eg ffdshow) and delivered to the renderer.
When I did a search I found something about it being a MS bug - that is perhaps fixed in MCE - although this is hearsay.
Anyway, try "Reclock" - set it to forced, waveout - and see how it goes.
Though Reclock might introduce other issues... I know some people don't like it, for me it works just fine and is a must if only for the fact it solves my multi-channel analog sound issue.
Oh BTW I'm also using kxproject drivers:
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1