Hooking up a receiver to my soundcard?

[davestar]

Originally posted by: Alone

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Alone
when I play DVD's, I have to turn the volume on the receiver right up!

What does "right up" mean?

It's normal that you'd have to turn the volume up significantly higher listening to DVDs vs. music. Are you unable to get decent volume by turning the volume up?

Is the receiver detecting the signal as Dolby Digital or DTS by the way? (As opposed to a PCM stereo stream and applying Prologic II or some other surround effect to it)

By right up I mean the lowest volume on the receiver is -80.00dB, and I have to turn it up to 0dB to get significant volume, and I have to max it out at 16dB for it to be loud! But there seems to be a lot of...wind?

As for how it's playing... I have the coax plugged in at the back through CD in, since that's the only digital coax input. So on my receiver I can use CD, but not CD DTS?

but what does the receiver report the detected signal to be?

i suppose it's possible that the digital CD signal path is separate from the DVD/TV path and doesn't contain DD/DTS decoding circuitry... but that would seem silly.

 

[Alone]

but what does the receiver report the detected signal to be?

PCM.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Do you have your computer settings set up to do AC3/DD/DTS "passthrough"? (in the software player and the soundcard settings)

 

[Crucial]

I have the same problem with windows media center. It is outputting PCM only to my receiver. I looked in the DVD audio setting of media center but it didn't seem to help.

 

[Googer]

This will definitly do the job very well. 5.1 on steroids.

http://www.audiocubes.com/product_info.php?products_id=1983
http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=446
http://benippon.com/shop/product_info.p...ducts_id=7620&currency=USD&language=en


In Japan it sells for less than $99 but you will pay a premium because it has to be imported.

 

[Alone]

I set up the audio control panel to do SPDIF passthrough, but then I completely lose my audio.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: Googer
This will definitly do the job very well. 5.1 on steroids.

http://www.audiocubes.com/product_info.php?products_id=1983
http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=446
http://benippon.com/shop/product_info.p...ducts_id=7620&currency=USD&language=en


In Japan it sells for less than $99 but you will pay a premium because it has to be imported.

That is mostly pointless here as all it will do for the OP is pass the signal to the reciever the same as any other sound card with half-decent digital output. You can find plenty of those for cheap.

OP, what audio control panel, the software you're using for playback or the audio for your motherboard? Depending on what chip and if they did more than just basic drivers, your board I would think should have its own control panel (not the Windows one) where you'll need to tell it to pass the signal. If it doesn't then you'll probably need a nice cheap card (is it M-Audio or Turtle Beach that had the cheap card that does bit perfect digital output).

 

[Kelvrick]

http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/mtgoddl/home.aspx

is what I use.

 

[Fenixgoon]

what if your receiver does not have SPDIF? (it's that old )

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
what if your receiver does not have SPDIF? (it's that old )

Well then you're probably not going to be getting DD/DTS decoding now are ya? Well maybe through 6 channel direct, but you'd need a sound card or software that does the decoding and so your reciever would just be an amplifier.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Alone
I set up the audio control panel to do SPDIF passthrough, but then I completely lose my audio.

Does your receiver then let you select what kind of decoding to do?

Your receiver clearly supports DD and DTS so there should be a way to get this working unless Yamaha screwed you over and didn't implement DD/DTS decoding on the digital coaxial input for some reason (I bet it's just a setting problem still though).

EDIT:
Change INPUT 2 INPUT MODE to "AUTO" if it's set to "LAST"

 

[Alone]

I got DTS to work in Linux by using -ac hwac3 for movies. My receiver just picks it up and switches over to DD 6.1 for me. I assume that means it's just a codec problem?

 

[Alone]

Well, Dolby Digital is showing up on my receiver when using VLC and ZoomPlayer. Not sure about WMP; I'll figure that out later.

Which players do you use for audio and video, Jello?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I use a real DVD player

I just find it a lot easier to use a dedicated player rather than mess around with my computer when I just want to watch a movie.

In the past I've used VLC and WMPC though. If you're serious about getting the mose out of viewing DVDs on your computer, check out AVSforum and see what people are doing with FFDshow and other related programs.

 

[Shawn]

I use my mobo's built in optical connection. Sounds great and no interference like with onboard analog sound.