Surround sound issue

[vexhold]

Over Thanksgiving and showing off my system, I realized that the surround sound isn't working right.

example: I always show "Cars" as the surround sound demo when showing my system off. When it does the THX intro, a robot flys around and fixes each of the rear speakers and you can hear him working on "just that speaker"

Unfortunatly that didn't happen, but I know it did before.

You hear it on both rear speakers.

I tested the Sound card using its built in tests and it all works great.

I tested "Cars" using CME and it works as it should.

I tried every setting in "Detailed Settings" to no availe.

I tweeked AC3 Filter and it changed nothing.

Now I am at a loss. Please help. Thanks.


I am using SP/DIF

[Djc208]

What's CME? What video codec are you using in Sage. It may be bipassing AC3 filter for it's own. I've seen the nVidia decoder do it.

Are you doing the surround decoding on the reciever or on the computer?

And just because I have to ask, you did verify that the reciever was in the right "mode"?

[vexhold]

Sorry, CME was wrong...

I meant TME Cyberlink TotalMedia Extreme

Video/Audio Settings

Video Renderer: Overlay
MPEG2 Video Decoder Filter: Arcsoft Video Decoder
MPEG4 Playback: DiectShow
DScaler Deinterlacing Filter: Disabled
Audio Renderer: C-Media Oxygen HD Audio
MPEG2 Audio Decoder Filter: Arcsoft Audio Decoder HD
Audio Playback Delay: 0



I had it originally set to use AC3 Filter up till me messing with it today.


The reciever is set ok.

[Djc208]

So do you send the reciever the straight digital surround or use the computer to send it 5.1 channel audio? Is the reciever getting the right signal (mine will light up a little DD sign, or show the speaker channels being recieved for PCM)?

If all that is right, my guess would be that the audio or video codec you have is not set to pass-through the digital audio to the reciever and instead is decoding it to stereo and sending that out instead.

So it looks like you need to look at the codecs you have listed and make sure they're set to pass through the audio to your SPDIF port, or get everything to go through one that will let you do that (like AC3 Filter).

[HelenWeathers]

Read this thread, I just went thru thiz last week and ToxMox got me thru it.

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...ad.php?t=37076

[vexhold]

Helen, you rock as ussual. That fixed my problem. THANKS!