Some trust their amp more than their player to do this decoding but since no DtoA is involved, just a decoding algorithm, there is no reason why it should be any better. mixing a commentary (for an overlayed pop-up video) and a soundtrack and this is not possible if you do not first decode the audio.ġ.3 is needed to pass the new lossless digital bitstreams eg. This is because the new standards allow for audio to be pre-mixed beforehand eg. HDMI 1.x can send multichannel PCM audio, which is actually what the new DVD specifications prefer you send to your amp. might as well use it.Ĭlick to expand.You are mistaken about that. Since I have a 5k worth of sound speakers and a good AVR. SO my HTPC will be my HD DVD player and that is why I want my sound good if I can get it that way. so I will be SOL cuz it doesn't handshake via HDMI. My Hda1 is going out of style cuz they are using the Image Constraint Token now. and I can notice the diff on my 120 inch HD 81 Projector. and Would prefer to use Component Because Too me it looks Better. If a player had onboard Decoding for DST-HD MA my receiver would take it thru Analogs and play it Fine. If you can use Analog and decode it from the Player like my HDA1 decodes TRUEHD and sends it to my Multi Channel AVR's Analog inputs. Yes the Express XFI has RCA Speaker Module adapter.
If you have a Player or Device like PDVD that decodes TRUEHD and feed it to your AVR via analog you get TRUEHD. If you want the best audio, I suggest you get a HD-a35 or a new blu-ray player that accepts all the new codecs. I never said the analog solution is future proof, I am sorry if people thought it was, it is generally accepted as the best method of getting hi-def audio with the current tech. With my x-fi I do not here that hiss at 100/100. As for a hiss sound, I did experience that when I had it hooked up to my onboard audio, but the hiss only became apparent at around at a volume of 75/100.
Also, powerdvd would have to issue a patch that would prevent the downsampling, which again would take time. Additionally the ATI 2xxx series, while able to output audio via HDMI, can only send a stereo signal and is essentially using a s/pidf setup.Īs nesNYC states, it would be best to wait until pap is implemented and a HDMI 1.3 compatible videocard is released, but this does not seem likely in the near future. And if you do have an X-fi card, I would recommend you put it in entertainment mode (if you're model supports HDMI output on any available video card right now is 1.2 which means it cannot output lossless audio, only 1.3 can do that.
If you want full 5.1/7.1 over s/pdif then you'll have to use DD+ which is the highest lossy format you can get over s/pdif and still get surround sound. Like alganonim said, there is a glitch (intentional maybe) that will cause s/pdif to revert to 2 speaker when trying to play TrueHd. If you outputting straight to your speakers then select Neo 6 or dolby PLIIx etc. If you are outputting to a reciever, then you can select no effect under output mode and the receiver will encode the information to whatever format you like. If you're going to use analog (and you have 5.1 speakers) then under audio options, select 6 speakers (the 6th is the subwoofer=.1). If you are using digital, then yes it will down mix to dts. What will happen is that rather than output the signal at 24bit/96hz, powerdvd will output it at 16bit/48hz. Click to expand.If you're using analog it will not downmix the signal to dts 5.1 (BTW DTS is a different format than dolby).