2005-02-13, 08:49 PM
After having spent more than 2 days of trying to track down why of why I didn't get Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS audio output from GB-PVR, I finally solved the problem!
What I found out was that the setup is quite multi faceted. I tried PowerDVD 4 through 6 and WinDVD 6, and ended up using PowerDVD 5, but this should work on any player.
Also a quick note on my hardware, I'm using an Epia M10k and a PVR150, although I don't think it should make any real difference..
So to get everything working you first have to install a DVD player (or actually just a codec should work too, at least Cyberlink sells one). After the installation is complete open your player and set the video options (mainly the hardware assisted playback) and you can go and set up the audio as well but it won't make a difference in GB-PVR.
Now to get audio working you have to go into Windows Media Player. (Here's where my problems with WinDVD really began, I couldn't get the settings to stick no matter what I tried, might work through a registry setting.) In WMP, go to Tools/Options/DVD and click the Advanced button (don't play a DVD while doing this!
. If you have AC3filter installed, it'll probably open now. If it does, go to the System tab and select Prefer other decoder, close ac3filer properties and click on the Advanced button again.
This time you should get PowerDVD's audio configuration window. Just select the appropriate setting (S/PDIF for me atleast) and close the settings and WMP.
Now open GB-PVR's config utility and select the Cyberlink options for both audio setting (sorry, it's late and I'm too lazy to check what the options are called![[Image: sad.gif]](http://gbpvr.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif)
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And now finally you're ready to go, enjoy clean and crispy multi channel sound with your DVDs!
As I said, I spent two days figuring this out, so I hope this helps some one having similar issues..
What I found out was that the setup is quite multi faceted. I tried PowerDVD 4 through 6 and WinDVD 6, and ended up using PowerDVD 5, but this should work on any player.
Also a quick note on my hardware, I'm using an Epia M10k and a PVR150, although I don't think it should make any real difference..
So to get everything working you first have to install a DVD player (or actually just a codec should work too, at least Cyberlink sells one). After the installation is complete open your player and set the video options (mainly the hardware assisted playback) and you can go and set up the audio as well but it won't make a difference in GB-PVR.
Now to get audio working you have to go into Windows Media Player. (Here's where my problems with WinDVD really began, I couldn't get the settings to stick no matter what I tried, might work through a registry setting.) In WMP, go to Tools/Options/DVD and click the Advanced button (don't play a DVD while doing this!
. If you have AC3filter installed, it'll probably open now. If it does, go to the System tab and select Prefer other decoder, close ac3filer properties and click on the Advanced button again.This time you should get PowerDVD's audio configuration window. Just select the appropriate setting (S/PDIF for me atleast) and close the settings and WMP.
Now open GB-PVR's config utility and select the Cyberlink options for both audio setting (sorry, it's late and I'm too lazy to check what the options are called
)And now finally you're ready to go, enjoy clean and crispy multi channel sound with your DVDs!
As I said, I spent two days figuring this out, so I hope this helps some one having similar issues..
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