Renderers Decoders and All

[Caseyjones]

I'm currently trying to get any music played to come from the rear speakers as well as the front.
My current setup of decoders/renderers will allow TV and recorded TV (that is stereo) to use front and rear speakers.
If I play .mp3 through windows media player or Nero showtime I get front and rear speakers, but in PVRX2 I only get just front.

Has anyone and ideas or suggestions as I'm completely stumped.

[psycik]

Have you been through all the renderers you have available to pvrx2 to no avail?

I'm not sure what else I can suggest. I don't think it would be the decoders, but it is possible I suppose.

[Caseyjones]

I have 5 decoders and 6 renderers and have mixed and matched all to no avail.

Do you have music from front and rear speakers?

If so which decoder/renderer are you using?

[psycik]

Um, actually I pump my pvr directly into a yamaha amp and the tv. TV is a headphone jack to 2 x rca plugs = stereo. And the amp is via digital coax = Stereo/AC3/DTS.

The amp is smart (!?!) enough to figure out it's getting a stereo signal and only drives the 2 speakers....sorry.

I think I can tell the amp to ignore that....but thats not what you're after.

I use Mpeg Decoder and AC3Filter is on the system to just in the way of any AC3/DTS sound streams. My renderer I think is system default.


This might be a sub question, but I think you should be able to get the same action from windows media player and pvrx2.

[sub]

Some decoders like AC3Filter or the ffdshow audio decoder will allow you to configure this type of stuff.

[psycik]

Hmm, he might be right caseyJones (he normally is ).

Just had a look at my AC3Filter mine is set to 3/2+SW 5.1 Channels since that is what my amplifier is expecting.

But there are options for Quadro 2/2 surround 3/1, 4.1 3.1 etc. So maybe ac3filter is worth having a play with....

[pBS]

there are many that allow configuration of output, including spdif..
MPA decoder,[also does ac3]
AC3 filter[my fav]
Dscaler .8 [part of the video decoder package,but usable separately]
Nvidia Purevideo[audio part]
and a couple more...

AC3 filter is nice cuz you can set levels independently,etc.
i use it to correct levels of ac3 tv vs. mp2 sources as they differ widely in vol.

[Caseyjones]

I have installed ac3filter and set it as the decoder.

if I now run pvrx2 and then bring up the ac3 config i would expect to see some feedback on the input bars but they remain totally blank. it also says input unknown (whether I do tv, music or movies). Have I setup wrong or does everyone else get this as well?