just trying to figure something out, i have a Asus P5N7A-VM, im going to be sticking a bluray player in it soon and was woundering if it supports bitstreaming dolby true-hd and dts hd ma. I have a feeling it doesnt and im gonna need a sound card to get the support but i thought id double check first.
Dolby true hd bitsteaming
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Whats your Graphics card?
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If you want bit streaming the 5XXX series are much easier to get working. Are you going to be plugging this into an amp?
Gpu is a igp GF9300.
Hmm, certainly makes sense, was planning on a gpu upgrade for it so if i stick to the 5 series its two birds and all that. I allways thought that the Ati audio thing was more of a passthrough than an audio card, or was that the case in early 3xxx series and not the case now or have they allways been independant sound cards?
And yes, i have an Onkyo Av reciever that supports the formats, just wasnt sure on the gpu, like i say i had a feeling it didnt support it but it was the best chipset to get for n HTPC at the time.
Hmm, certainly makes sense, was planning on a gpu upgrade for it so if i stick to the 5 series its two birds and all that. I allways thought that the Ati audio thing was more of a passthrough than an audio card, or was that the case in early 3xxx series and not the case now or have they allways been independant sound cards?
And yes, i have an Onkyo Av reciever that supports the formats, just wasnt sure on the gpu, like i say i had a feeling it didnt support it but it was the best chipset to get for n HTPC at the time.
How can the chipset i have not do it then as it can bitstream DTS etc, i mean... i know it cant but im just trying to understand why it cant, why it can just pass through one format to my amp yet it cant just passthrough another even though it doesnt have to actually manipulate or render the format it any form?
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You can have codecs on your PC like FFDshow that manipulate the effect but its not 'real' DTS unless it goes through your Amp.
I have an amp that will decode the signal and i understand that part i just wounderd why my current igp was incapable of giving the amp it if all it is is a passthrough, what made the 5 series have a more feature rich passthrough than the 4, just didnt understand why you needed anything more than bandwidth to be able to pass a signal to a device.
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Your current GPU was not designed data as sound. Whats why they had on board sound on the motherboards.
I was under the impression that Dolby digital DTS was a data stream which my igp supports?
Now that makes sense, sort of HDCP for audio, cheers for that.
Now that makes sense, sort of HDCP for audio, cheers for that.
Yeah spot on.
For playback software you can't beat Total media 3 100x better than powerdvd IMO
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Total Media Theater is hot for running straight BD content into an Amp, but getting MPC-HC is a bigger achievement!
Its also a bandwidth limitation. SPDIF is only designed for a maximum of 1.5mbit whereas HD audio is much, much higher.
the HDMI port on your motherboard is just a spidf port with a different connector to put it simply
Hmm i didnt realise you could do 8 channel lpcm over spdif, thought that was HDMI only, figures lol!
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You can't. It doesn't have the bandwidth. You can do 2 channel LPCM over SPDIF.