Odd bug in Arcsoft Total Media Theater 5

Kerry56

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I've found a very strange glitch in TMT 5. If I try to use my external dac/amp that I use with my headphones, TMT 5 stops playing. It just freezes for on one frame. You can fast forward or reverse and the movie will advance, but freezes again when trying to play. This happens with both blu ray and dvds, from files or from discs.

The external dac/amp is a FiiO E10, which is a usb driven device. The sound output shows up in TMT 5 as SPDIF.

Avi files have no issues at all. And TMT5 is the only player I've found that has this problem.

The only solution I can find is to use the onboard sound, which means leaving a headphone extension plugged in the back of the computer and using it whenever I play TMT 5. Pain in the ass for playing blu ray files off the hard drive. And you need a commercial program for playing blu ray menus, else I'd just use Media Player Classic HomeCinema most of the time.

Has anyone else seen this and found a solution? TMT 5 is fully updated by the way. And their support was zero help. I've tried the trial for WinDVD 11, but it won't play blu ray files, and switching to mounted ISO's would take a lot of work.