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Forthe last few months I've had my HTPC setup in the spare room with the projector until the theater is completed. I've been using the crappy stereo speakers that came with the pc but at least I had some sound. Last night I decided to experiment with SPDIF passthrough to my Marantz receiver.
I hooked up the coax via a mono plug to the "digital out" of the audigy card and connected it to the receiver. I went into the audigy mixer and selected "digital out only" and then uder settings disabled dolby decoding. In Theatertek I made sure that SPDIF passthrough was enabled. The led on the receiver went from blinking to solid which was a good sign. However, no sound at all comes out when playing DVD's. I tried using other software players like ATI but same results. I've tried every combination of settings under the audigy mixer but no change. When I turn off "digital out only" the led blinks again which implies that the receiver is seeing a signal of some description, right? I didn't fry the receiver because the stand alone dvd player still works with the coax.
I then removed the cover on the PC and checked out the cable connections inside. I'm not sure if I have discovered the problem or not. There is a cable plugged into the audigy for cd audio that does go to the Toshiba DVD player but there is also a connection for "cd spdif" on the audigy that does not have a cable. The DVD has a small connection next to the audio connection but I can't see if it's an spdif connection or not. So, is this why I'm not getting SPDIF passthrough? Do I need another cable connected to the Audigy card from the DVD player? Or, does spdif also get passed down the regular audio connection or IDE ribbon cable?
If this is NOT my problem are there any other suggestions, places to look or things to check for before I start re formatting and playing with drivers etc?
System basics: Asus Tusl2c mb, Pentium 3 1Ghz, 256 mb ram, Toshiba DVD, Theatertek dvd player, Audigy sound card. Thanks in advance.
I hooked up the coax via a mono plug to the "digital out" of the audigy card and connected it to the receiver. I went into the audigy mixer and selected "digital out only" and then uder settings disabled dolby decoding. In Theatertek I made sure that SPDIF passthrough was enabled. The led on the receiver went from blinking to solid which was a good sign. However, no sound at all comes out when playing DVD's. I tried using other software players like ATI but same results. I've tried every combination of settings under the audigy mixer but no change. When I turn off "digital out only" the led blinks again which implies that the receiver is seeing a signal of some description, right? I didn't fry the receiver because the stand alone dvd player still works with the coax.
I then removed the cover on the PC and checked out the cable connections inside. I'm not sure if I have discovered the problem or not. There is a cable plugged into the audigy for cd audio that does go to the Toshiba DVD player but there is also a connection for "cd spdif" on the audigy that does not have a cable. The DVD has a small connection next to the audio connection but I can't see if it's an spdif connection or not. So, is this why I'm not getting SPDIF passthrough? Do I need another cable connected to the Audigy card from the DVD player? Or, does spdif also get passed down the regular audio connection or IDE ribbon cable?
If this is NOT my problem are there any other suggestions, places to look or things to check for before I start re formatting and playing with drivers etc?
System basics: Asus Tusl2c mb, Pentium 3 1Ghz, 256 mb ram, Toshiba DVD, Theatertek dvd player, Audigy sound card. Thanks in advance.
guess I'm playing with patches and drivers then versus a simple cable installation eh?
