Silent stream bug? - Page 4

MarcD2K11,

Big thanks for taking this into your own hands and fixing things when Nvidia refuses to. American companies never cease to amaze me at how they perpetuate incompetence instead of fixing issues. This is so major for me I can't even fathom the stupidity that allows this problem to continue. Up until I got this installed, I couldn't run a speaker test at all, it turned out once I got this working that my rear left speaker wasn't plugged in right and wasn't getting sound signal, but I couldn't tell because the sound test didn't work. And also none of my windows sounds worked. Like literally none but I could catch the end of the start up chime because that was long enough. I had switched back to S/PDIF for a while just because it actually worked all the time instead of after 1 second. If there is any difference in quality vs HDMI, I can't hear it and bitstreaming still worked, but I'd rather do the HDMI of course to get full surround sound from games that don't use DTS/Dolby.

Anyway, big props.

I found a rudiment solution to this problem...
I have an Intel HD 4000 Graphics via HDMI to a Yamaha RX-A810 then to a Philips TV.

I just run a Winamp session, play a Mp3 song and then paused it.
This kept open the audio channel and fix the bug.

I can't try the Marc app because I have Windows XP...
I'm wondering if developing a simple app than do this simple procedure
and leave it resident from the start up can help to fix the issue...

Greets from Argentina!
Juan Pablo

PD. Sorry for my poor English...

Hi,

First of all, I run into this forum during the research about .... intel HD 4000. I had a laptop and it had no onboard systems but thanks to radeon I had to change channels when I connected to TV. Then I changed my laptop. It has intel HD 4000 & Geforce GT 630M on Windows 8 system. When I connect HDMI cable it works fine, even if I close the TV or change the port. There is no problem unless connect my laptop via HDMI. The program named SRS Premium Sound 3D handle the situation well. I don't even need Realtek configuration. But when I connect my laptop via HDMI and watching movies I've got this kind of a problem. There is no problem about speeches till the music comes out. The music chokes the speech and I barely heard the conversation. When I checked the audio controller, system shows that intel HD 4000 audio but there is no interface to control it. Srs isn't working with HDMI. I thought the problem is TV, player or video but I had no issues like that with my old laptop. Please tell me what can I do about it?

Thanks

First of all, thank you for creating this program and providing it for the public.

It's amazing how people privately fix problems, which a large company as nvidia seems unable or unwilling to solve!
What a shame, nvidia!


Well, i got a question:

How does your solution for this problem compare to the following workaround, what are the advantages/disadvantages?

Here's the workaround:
Enable onboard-soundchip, go to record-devices, enable digital input, check "listen to this device", set it's volume to zero and mute it, and select "playback through default audio device". Might be best if nothing is connected to that input.

That way, a constant stream of muted audio is transmitted to the receiver.
Works for me and doesnt seem to have any disadvantage.
Will this affect audio quality?

What about your solution, does it affect audio quality or signal processing in the receiver in any way?
Does it decrease performance in games? Or will this program turn off when a game is started or any other kind of audio is played?


Regards and thank you again for helping us.

Interestingly the problem only seems to occur when HDMI is connected to a receiver, connecting the HDMI directly from the videocard to the TV does not seem to be affected by this problem.

Hello all,

I can read here that this softwaere is only for outputting af 2 channel stream. Is there a way to have a silent strem multichannel signal running in stead? I have my pc connected to my surround reciever running movies in dolby digital 5.1 and everytime i pause fast forward evt this output stops. this means my reciever has to find it again when unpausing ect. is there a fix for this? can i force output 5.1 in any way?

I dont Think om running bit stream. The audio is decoded, transfered into reclock that encodes it to ac3. I do notice that when i run my mediaplayer the logo in avr guard turns red i Think it says "waiting" Then when i Close mpc hc it turns green again.

Yes it says dolby digital when a movie is playing. Everytime i pause ffwd ect it switches to dolby Pro Logic ii which is 2 Channel correct?

Wil it still be 5.1 digital surround in pcm. I dont Care what the reciever says But id like to have the 2 Channel Sound still be multi Channel

Many thx m8 for the help. i apreciate it. i forgot thou that im running optical so i cant get pcm 5.1.

The reason for all this is I am thinking of buing a new receiver. but it clicks it relays everytime it switches from 5.1 to 2.0. this means it would do it everytime i rewind, pause, start og stop a movie. i might be able to force it on 5.1 even if it gets no signal but i am unsure.

But there is no way then it seems to have a constant signal from a pc that outputs 5.1 - as a bluray player dvd player does then?

thx again

I don't have an AppData\Local directory on my machine - just AppData\LocalLow appears in my user folders. Will the program find a SILENTSTREAM.WAV file placed in LocalLow? There wasn't a directory for the program in there already, but I created one...

Nevermind - found it. Win 7 has two separate ways to hide files. Idiots.

However, it doesn't seem to be working. I'm trying to play the file, but AVR Audio Guard is just stuck "Waiting". Didn't have that problem before, and nothing else is playing on this system.