2008-06-02, 01:27 PM
This is an odd one - but what would be nice is the ability to have a secondary sound filter and renderer that is used during playback.
I'll just give an example of my set up to explain why.
Nvidia motherboard with on-board sound which is two devices: 1. realtek HD audio, 2. Nvidia HDMI HD Audio
I have the HDMI attached to a plasma display and the realtek attached to a receiver via SPDIF.
Since GBPVR only outputs to one audio device at a time when I watch movies in surround I want the receiver and use Nvidia audio decoder -> Realtek SPDIF to get pass through surround.
During regular TV or non-surround I switch to the HDMI via any other audio decoder.
Needless to say its a bit painful and when family/wives/girlfriends are using the application nearly impossible.
So every time I want to watch movie in full surround I have to go through the config app and change the setting. I grabbed a last graph and added an infinite tee to the sound and rendered both and voila - true passthrough surround via the SPDIF and regular PC audio through the HDMI. So the wish is a setting (probably just in the config.xml) where a secondary audio decoder and secondary renderer can be specified for use via a tee filter during playback.
I suspect this type of set up is going to become more prevalent with all the new mboards with HDMI out so it will become useful to many more users than just myself.
Cheers,
CV
I'll just give an example of my set up to explain why.
Nvidia motherboard with on-board sound which is two devices: 1. realtek HD audio, 2. Nvidia HDMI HD Audio
I have the HDMI attached to a plasma display and the realtek attached to a receiver via SPDIF.
Since GBPVR only outputs to one audio device at a time when I watch movies in surround I want the receiver and use Nvidia audio decoder -> Realtek SPDIF to get pass through surround.
During regular TV or non-surround I switch to the HDMI via any other audio decoder.
Needless to say its a bit painful and when family/wives/girlfriends are using the application nearly impossible.
So every time I want to watch movie in full surround I have to go through the config app and change the setting. I grabbed a last graph and added an infinite tee to the sound and rendered both and voila - true passthrough surround via the SPDIF and regular PC audio through the HDMI. So the wish is a setting (probably just in the config.xml) where a secondary audio decoder and secondary renderer can be specified for use via a tee filter during playback.
I suspect this type of set up is going to become more prevalent with all the new mboards with HDMI out so it will become useful to many more users than just myself.
Cheers,
CV