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Blu Ray Audio Problem

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Andrew83

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I bought a Pioneer Blu Ray Burner (BDR-205) and found out it wasn't happy with my old Viewsonic monitor for playing Blu ray movies. Seems it didn't support HDCP. So I figured I would upgrade my monitor since my Viewsonic was old.

I picked up a Samsung Syncmaster P2570HD. I'm hooked up through a DVI to HDMI cable (DVI on my Nvidia 8800 Ultra to the HDMI port on the monitor)

I'm using Arcsoft TotalMedia Theater and am getting full HD video now off of my Blu Ray movies, so the monitor and the Blu Ray drive are playing nice now.

My issue is I am getting no audio. I have my speakers plugged into the standard old audio jack of my Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer. Arcsoft TNT is telling me the following features are not available "Dolby Digial Audio Decoder."

My question is am I going to have to upgrade my sound card to something more current & HD friendly, or is there some workaround to getting audio out of my current setup. I downloaded a codec I thought might fix my issue, but it didn't seem to do anything. I honestly know very little about HD audio, Dolby this and that, required hardware, etc.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Andrew
 
I think you need the Asus HDAV 1.3 sound card...the only HD capable sound card on the market atm I believe.
 
What speakers have you? I mean have you the full 5.1 speakers or just a pair of desktop speakers?

If you go into the audio settings in TMT and change it to 2 channel stereo do you get sound? You might have it configured to HDMI or SPDIF and that is why you are getting no audio.

You might also try downloading MPC-HC (media player classic - home cinema) get the 32 bit verison, if TMT doesn't work.

Let me know if you need more help.
 
I have 5 standard desktop speakers that plug into a "volume control box" for lack of a better word. It's a crappy little device that just has volume control knobs for front, rear and center speakers and the sub. That is connected to my Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer card via a standard audio jack.

Seems as though the problem lies within TMT or the Dolby Digial Audio Decoder thing it is telling me to download. I tried playing a burned DVD in the program and got really garbled audio. I tried a couple store bought DVDs as well and got no audio at all.

Playing with the audio settings didn't do anything. Im going to try PowerDVD 10 and see if if I can get better results.
 
Seems as though the problem lies within TMT. PowerDVD 10 works great. I don't know the difference between all the new HD audio formats & features, but decent sound is better than no sound.
 
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