Okay, so I lied... I'm not going crazy, but I almost on the verge of it! Read on!:
I have my speaker system hooked up via the SPDIF output on my Live 5.1. The sound in regular windows environment works fine, but if I try playing a DVD choosing SPDIF Dolby surround output in the PowerDVD config than the sound studders when playing any DVD. It is really annoying and definitely not normal. If I choose Direct sound than it works fine but the effect is not quite as good since I'm not getting true dolby digital output. I know my system is not too slow b/c it's just the sound that studders and not the video... besides I'm running on a 16X DVD ROM, 1050MHz P3, 256 ram. PowerDVD seemingly worked fine w/ SPDIF on my old Cambridge DTT2500, but now it's giving me this crap! It was even working fine when I was testing it yesterday feeding it to the receiver w/ 4 speakers connected, but than when I hooked up the center and opened up powerdvd, that's when the studdering problem began. The odd thing though, is that everything seems fine when I'm playing music files even w/ the center speaker which does not appear to have any
problems.
I reinstall PowerDVD and get nothing.
So I decide to fool around with the live!ware soundcard software stuff for a while and then all of a sudden powerdvd decides to work, Yay!!!... of course I close it, open it up again and I'm getting that studder crap back! ARGH, what GIVES!#@!%@!
Then I decide to try out the digital miniplug output. So I take a miniplug to rca converter, plug it in to the soundcard and to the receiver and fire up PowerDVD... Still the SAME SH*T!!!
The only other thing I could think of is that perhaps my previous install of PowerDVD 3.0 perhaps corrupted it. When I installed 3.0 I would get an error when trying to play a DVD so I unistalled it and installed 2.55 back on. The thing is that I had my DTT2500 set before I ever installed 3.0, and that is when everything worked perfectly fine. I don't have that set anymore to test now, but I do suspect 3.0 did something and left behind some problems. I remember a while back when I had the cinemaster player which had problems on my computer, it left behind problems even after unistalling it and all the other software players were affected. It was a totally different problem (dvd's would not play at all), but perhaps could be somehow related. So now I have NO idea what to do as this all seems very complicated. I've spent the entire past 2 days on this, and as you would imagine I am very fustrated!!! So I am begging you, PLEASE HELP!!! ANY suggestions/advice would be appreciated, I just want to get this fixed!
* If you know how I can do a CLEAN unistall of powerdvd that might be useless... and I mean EVERY trace of it gone, and every file it may have edited put back to normal and so forth
** Also I have noticed that every time the screen changes while playing a DVD, my speakers crack. For example when you first play the dvd, or when you select something from the main menu or choose a new scene to go to... but it can't be powerdvd b/c I tried playing dolby digital encoding music files and I get that same loud crackle in my speakers.... very odd indeed; can anyone explain this?
I have my speaker system hooked up via the SPDIF output on my Live 5.1. The sound in regular windows environment works fine, but if I try playing a DVD choosing SPDIF Dolby surround output in the PowerDVD config than the sound studders when playing any DVD. It is really annoying and definitely not normal. If I choose Direct sound than it works fine but the effect is not quite as good since I'm not getting true dolby digital output. I know my system is not too slow b/c it's just the sound that studders and not the video... besides I'm running on a 16X DVD ROM, 1050MHz P3, 256 ram. PowerDVD seemingly worked fine w/ SPDIF on my old Cambridge DTT2500, but now it's giving me this crap! It was even working fine when I was testing it yesterday feeding it to the receiver w/ 4 speakers connected, but than when I hooked up the center and opened up powerdvd, that's when the studdering problem began. The odd thing though, is that everything seems fine when I'm playing music files even w/ the center speaker which does not appear to have any
problems.
I reinstall PowerDVD and get nothing.
So I decide to fool around with the live!ware soundcard software stuff for a while and then all of a sudden powerdvd decides to work, Yay!!!... of course I close it, open it up again and I'm getting that studder crap back! ARGH, what GIVES!#@!%@!
Then I decide to try out the digital miniplug output. So I take a miniplug to rca converter, plug it in to the soundcard and to the receiver and fire up PowerDVD... Still the SAME SH*T!!!
The only other thing I could think of is that perhaps my previous install of PowerDVD 3.0 perhaps corrupted it. When I installed 3.0 I would get an error when trying to play a DVD so I unistalled it and installed 2.55 back on. The thing is that I had my DTT2500 set before I ever installed 3.0, and that is when everything worked perfectly fine. I don't have that set anymore to test now, but I do suspect 3.0 did something and left behind some problems. I remember a while back when I had the cinemaster player which had problems on my computer, it left behind problems even after unistalling it and all the other software players were affected. It was a totally different problem (dvd's would not play at all), but perhaps could be somehow related. So now I have NO idea what to do as this all seems very complicated. I've spent the entire past 2 days on this, and as you would imagine I am very fustrated!!! So I am begging you, PLEASE HELP!!! ANY suggestions/advice would be appreciated, I just want to get this fixed!
* If you know how I can do a CLEAN unistall of powerdvd that might be useless... and I mean EVERY trace of it gone, and every file it may have edited put back to normal and so forth
** Also I have noticed that every time the screen changes while playing a DVD, my speakers crack. For example when you first play the dvd, or when you select something from the main menu or choose a new scene to go to... but it can't be powerdvd b/c I tried playing dolby digital encoding music files and I get that same loud crackle in my speakers.... very odd indeed; can anyone explain this?
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