Core i7, i5 & i3 LGA1156 Processors Thread: Clarkdale Supports HD Audio Bitstreaming! - Page 78

The receiver says "No Signal" so I'm assuming nothing would go through to the TV. I'll look for a headset jack and check just to make sure.

*Update: no audio comes from the headset jack.

Alternatively if you have a laptop with HDMI out you could try connecting that to the back of your receiver. Just some basic troubleshooting but probably worth the effort. I'm assuming you have other HDMI in's to your receiver.

Unfortunately, no consistency so far. Sometimes it happens almost immediately after load up. Sometimes it will run fine for hours and nearly the entire day.

I don't think it's failed in TMT3 so far - but I haven't tested it extensively. I would say it mostly happens on live TV in MC.


Just curious... was one of the changes upping the voltage on your memory just a touch? Somebody at the Intel forums recommended that...

@John M Miller: Also, check the Onkyo/Integra update thread about firmware updates... if you have an early firmware in the rcvr, it may be causing the power-on issues.

Nope just since I buildt the Core I machine

Yeah, all other HDMI sources work just fine. I tried using a different cable and different input, to no avail.

I guess I'm going to have to go back to Onkyo firmware land. I thought I'd never have to do that again. Too bad my HTPC doesn't have a COM port.

I wondered about firmware for my Onkyo but apparently there is none for the TX-SR507. Sorry to hear it's not working for you.

What version of BIOS do you have for the ASRock? I have a similar setup with an i3-530, ASRock H55, and Onkyo 805 and I don't have any issues. I did at first but that was fixed when updating to the latest BIOS. I would hate to have to do a firmware update but I'm pretty sure mine is an old version of the firmware.

To clarify, TV/TAPE and TUNER are seperate sources. But in any case, mine does not behave like that. When powered on, the source remains whichever was active before powered off. I likewise use HDMI-1 input (BD/DVD) for the GA-H55M-S2H output. I don't recall there being an auto-source feature. Does yours switch like that when powered on via the front panel as well as via the remote?

Sorry, my post was unclear. I have a Gigabyte H55M-S2H, not an ASRock. I was just saying that I knew several ASRock mobos had issues. Do you think a BIOS update might do the trick?

If there's a newer BIOS available, it's certainly worth a shot.

Does anyone know what the video playback pausing issue could be with my setup? I found out it's not just only blu-ray -- any video file I play in ANY player will have pauses of about 2-3 seconds while the audio continues. It happens about 5-10 times/hour during a show, and makes it almost unwatchable. It's a brand new HTPC with MCE7, i3, GA-H55M-UD2H, 4GB RAM. I'm willing to try anything at this point...

If your drivers are up to date and you didn't forget to install any of them, I'd look at maybe a codec issue. Other than drivers, what have you installed?

It only switches like that when you first power it on. It happens by itself, not from the front panel or the remote. I switch it back using the remote as I rarely touch the front panel. Honestly I haven't read much about the receiver. Now that I got WMC DVR and my movie library playing satisfactorily, I can spend some time on other things like this. I think I put over 20 hours into!

It sounds like you are talking about something that I've seen off and on since I got my Intel board, and so have some others. The video will freeze while the audio continues, then the video moves fast to catch up. The only person I remember saying something they tried, said they disabled hyperthreading, but wasn't sure if that fixed it.

I've seen it on all three players but it disappeared until recently. But its still rare and most times happens only once or twice while watching a blu-ray. Also, for me for whatever strange reason it might do it on one disc every time I try it, and not at all on most other one's.

Its mentioned in this thread also.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...ighlight=intel


So, I'm really not sure what causes it, but fortunately it only happens rarely for me.

My HTPC does this too. Not 5-10 times/hour. More like once/2-3 hours of recorded TV. I haven't installed any codecs and only watch recorded HDTV in Media Center 7x64. I'm still running on the 2021 driver. Which are you on?

That was me, and hyperthreading had no impact. It is happening a lot more recently for me. I went into my BIOS and disabled the C states and Speed Step (EIST). I haven't seen it happen again since then, but it has only been a few days since I tried that.

So are you saying that you have bitstreaming working for all high def codecs (DD TrueHD & DTSHD MA)? I never did get my ASRock mb working with those codecs and gave up and sent it back. The video of Bluray's and especially SD DVD's was excellent. DD and DTS worked perfectly. I thought I'd try the Asus and I'm also purchasing a Gefen HDMI Detective to keep around.

I'm using the latest 2086 drivers from intel's website. Maybe I should try downgrading or something. The only codec I downloaded was the shark007 pack. I didn't think it was a codec issue though since XBMC does the same thing, and I was under the impression that it uses all internal codecs. The only other things I've installed on this are the MB utilities, MPC-HC, and a few miscellaneous programs like a PDF reader. Other than that, it's a fresh install of Windows 7.

I have had this happen also. It has only happened on one disk so far but it happened several times on that disk.

You can try but I'm not using the lastest Drivers. I'm on the one before 2086, but think I've seen it on all of them. I don't use the last drivers because they didn't fix the 24p problem and the video levels are screwed up. I didn't see the point of adjusting them again. But it won't hurt to try different things.

Hi guys,

540/H55 trials on 7/64 Home Premium.

I had lots of issues i did a fresh install of OS again.

What i did before give it ago:

Fresh install of 7/64
Install wireless adaptor
And Intel drivers:
GFX-Vista_Win7-64-15.17.1.64.2086.PV which includes:
Intel HD Graphics:8.15.10.2086
and
Intel audio:6.12.00.3047
And
MEI_ALLOS.6.0.31.1208_PV

Configured audio (DENON-AVAMP i my case)

Installed:
DX End User Runtime
ffdshow
ReClock
MPC-HC and give it a go.

I got DTS-HD and THD without any issues but i got video pixelization on THD files. (MPC-HC decoder on DXVA mode if it's selected in ffmpeg mode no pixeization but corruption occurs)

Second trial.

Tried to use my nVidia 260 card on video side while i was planning to use onboard HDMI for audio purposes.

BIOS Setup:

1) Onboard VGA: Always enable
Init Display first: PCI
2) Onboard VGA: Always enable
Init Display first: Onboard
In both option, nVidia refuses to be loaded it's own drivers.

You had an active display or AVR connected to your Nvidia upon reboot?

Yes.

I put a 5450 in my GA-H55M-UD2H and I had to change video bios to ?PEG? for it to show. Otherwise the card never showed. I'll reboot to check. Also, unless it's connected Intel complains ATI is not compatible and update ATI drivers.

Thanks for trying.
But i love nVidia as far as Intel loves AMD/Ati

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Oh I will try Nvidia when I get one, but for the time being at $50 a 5450 fanless has to be tried. So for Gigabyte under Advanced Bios Features I set to ONBOARD for the 5450 to work. The choices under Init Display First are:
PCI
Onboard
PEG
PEG2

I had PEG for onboard dvi and hdmi to work and to use the 5450 in the pci16 slot I changed to onboard and the 5450 works. Of course after the dvi (onboard) shows boot screen.

oh, i have to do my homework tomorrow
Thx.

I also have the Gigabyte board and so far I have gotten everything working pretty well. I am using Mediaportal to play all of my tv and media files. All of my DVD's are in Video TS folders and the blurays and HDVD are all ripped to MKV with the THD or DTSMA audio.

For codecs I am using Shark007 and W7 Ult 32bit for the OS. I disabled Haali and the only real issue is a problem with EXTREMELY low volume. If it keep stepping back in time in the video file IE forward 15sec and back 15sec eventually the file will play with normal volume. The whole time the rx will show the bitstreaming and HD audio indicators.

The other issue is, every time I resume from S3 the W7 audio reverts to 2ch, not a problem for bitstreaming. But the Flac files I have will not play back unless I go back into the CP and enable 7ch again. It happens every time, turn on order does not seem to matter.

Yeah I have ripped several different BD/HD-DVDs using eac3to and extracted only the HD audio feed. I have only played the MKVs of my files on my i3/H55 build since I don't have TMT3 or PDVD installed. I am running on latest BIOS and using the recent release of FFDshow and MPC-HC with W7MC and Media Browser. Occasionally MPC-HC will mess up (not sure the reason why) but will start working again.