Solved: Trouble playing video files with AC3 audio in PowerDVD over SPDIF

[nife4]

I'm hoping this is the right forum.

I'm using PowerDVD Ultra 7.2 & have the audio set as SPDIF out to my Audigy 2 ZS & sent to my receiver. It works perfectly for DVDs when they're playing on the computer & decodes the AC3 audio like it should.

When I try to play a video file (divx, mkv, xvid) with any AC3 audio (2ch, 5.1) the damn program freezes on the first frame & doesn't do anything. I get no audio output & just the first frame of the file freezes. Also, PowerDVD slows down considerably & seems like it wants to crash.

Any help on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Solved: added PDVD to ffdshow's blacklist

 

[Auric]

In my experience, PDVD has never been a good player for other than disc sources. The decoders are great though and can be used with other players such as MPC-HC.

 

[nife4]

I've been using PDVD for the last 3 years for all file types. This only started happening when I hooked my computer to my new receiver last night through the SPDIF out on my sound card.

 

[Auric]

Did you set the Creative decoder to pass-through?

 

[nife4]

Yes, everything for the sound card is set right. As I said, PDVD plays actual DVDs as it should through SPDIF, but when I try to play a video file with AC3 audio, it craps out.

 

[nife4]

Never mind, I solved the issue. It seems PDVD & ffdshow were competing. Put PDVD in the blacklist & all is right in the world.