2007-04-20, 12:45 AM
Ok I've run out and spent a bunch of money. Saw a nice 650W home theatre receiver/decoder for only $169CAD, wasnt shopping for it, but at that kind of price what the hell. I have the Epson Powerlite S1+ projector for a 12 foot diagonal screen and the old DVD/Surround combo was literally cooking (had to go in there and splice in a new Pentium II fan because the old one melted. peice of junk) and was no match for the screen size.
That led me to another purchase - Creative Audigy Sound Blaster 4. The thing has a digital SPDIF or S/PDIF out which means I can plug it straight through to the receiver and have it decode. The receiver can decode anything, Sony ATRAC to MPEG-2 and of course, the beloved Dolby Digital and DTS 96.
There was a bit of a learning curve to get around the misleading wives' tales (no disrespect to wives) about how the coax does 5.1 or 7.1 no problem. Ok fine I use Dolby Pro Logic II to rerender any non compressed source (Dolby Digital or DTS) and the receiver automatically flops back to the digital multichannel mode when the signal is detected.
Got it all working, tried out the stuff, works. Only one teeny little problem.
In Cyberlink's player, i've set it for SPDIF pass through (dont decode, let the receiver do that). Works like a hot damn. In Winamp, I play an AAC or DTS file and it passes through, works like a hot damn. Of course, soundblasters overly glitzy mouse driven player that comes with the card, works like a hot damn.
However in GBPVRs DVD player (which to my understanding is simply the Cyberlink), I cant set it to SPDIF. It only goes to PCM Linear mode. Kind of a bummer.
I have the media centre hooked up to the FM, the Cable, the DVD, the TV, the Projector, use the remote that came with the ATI Theatre 550 Pro loving GBPVR, I dumped the one that came with it, Cyberlink PowerCinema, that one just sucks (ahem.. PAY for the EPG? forget that).
Creative's player even uses the Cyberlink Audio Decoder to decode audio, and it offers the SPDIF option. Can I set this in GBPVR? I've looked through the config tool and even through the config.xml file, I cant find anything reasonable that would allow me to set such a thing.
Any idea how to set GBPVR's setting for the audio decoder to SPDIF?
That led me to another purchase - Creative Audigy Sound Blaster 4. The thing has a digital SPDIF or S/PDIF out which means I can plug it straight through to the receiver and have it decode. The receiver can decode anything, Sony ATRAC to MPEG-2 and of course, the beloved Dolby Digital and DTS 96.
There was a bit of a learning curve to get around the misleading wives' tales (no disrespect to wives) about how the coax does 5.1 or 7.1 no problem. Ok fine I use Dolby Pro Logic II to rerender any non compressed source (Dolby Digital or DTS) and the receiver automatically flops back to the digital multichannel mode when the signal is detected.
Got it all working, tried out the stuff, works. Only one teeny little problem.
In Cyberlink's player, i've set it for SPDIF pass through (dont decode, let the receiver do that). Works like a hot damn. In Winamp, I play an AAC or DTS file and it passes through, works like a hot damn. Of course, soundblasters overly glitzy mouse driven player that comes with the card, works like a hot damn.
However in GBPVRs DVD player (which to my understanding is simply the Cyberlink), I cant set it to SPDIF. It only goes to PCM Linear mode. Kind of a bummer.
I have the media centre hooked up to the FM, the Cable, the DVD, the TV, the Projector, use the remote that came with the ATI Theatre 550 Pro loving GBPVR, I dumped the one that came with it, Cyberlink PowerCinema, that one just sucks (ahem.. PAY for the EPG? forget that).
Creative's player even uses the Cyberlink Audio Decoder to decode audio, and it offers the SPDIF option. Can I set this in GBPVR? I've looked through the config tool and even through the config.xml file, I cant find anything reasonable that would allow me to set such a thing.
Any idea how to set GBPVR's setting for the audio decoder to SPDIF?
