James Maki wrote:
Is HDMI ready for prime time?
Yes.
I was excited to purchase an HDMI capable
reciever that would do 5.1 sound. It seems to give me nothing but problems.
The receiver or the other stuff? Which receiver?
I can't hook up my Comcast DVR because it complains that the route is not
HDCP compatible, which it is supposed to be. Same problem with me DVD
player. So, I have the Comcast DVR hooked up directly to the HDTV and use
the SPDIF Digital Optical out to the reciever for the audio. Works okay, but
not elegant like HDMI promised. I have the DVD player hooked up via
component cables because I can't even hook it up to the tv directly. It has
a pinkish hue as if one of the color components isn't registering. But, it
works fine with component. It has a coax digital out SPDIF which I also
hooked up to the reciever. That works fine. That left my computer to be
hooked up as multi-channel from the soundcard to the multi-channel in.
Worked, but I wanted digital audio. My reciever has only 1 coax in, and the
DVD was occupying that position.
Yes, this sucks. Do you have your component cables switched?
So, I purchased a new video card, an ATI HD 4670 with direct HDMI output,
supporting 7.1 sound. I figured this would solve my problem. NOPE! I
installed the new video card and now have NO audio. The ATI HDMI audio is
installed, it just doesn't make a sound. And, it says my reciever does not
support DTS Audio, or Dolby Audio, which is does. I then moved the HDMI to
connect directly to the HDTV. Still no joy! (or audio).
What HDMI cable are you using?
To make things worse, the HDMI audio configuration only allows selecting
STEREO. No 5.1 surround sound available.
Where is this setting being made? Video card driver?
I am at a loss. I have googled the
problem for hours and found lots of people with similar problems, but not
any actual solutions. Some complain that you have to update the Realtek
drivers for your motherboard, which doesn't make sense, and also didn't
work!
The ATI/Sapphire websites both extoll the virtures of HDMI with superior
picture quality and 7.1 sound, but no where can I find anyplace that gives
instructions on installing or using the audio features. It is not in the
Catalyst Control Center (or, at least I haven't been able to locate it!).
If anyone has any ideas, I would sure like to hear them. Sorry for the rant,
but it has been a frustrating day that I had been very excited about!
Well, you have a PC in your system that I don't have. I have an Onkyo
706 receiver. The HD cable receiver plugs in via HDMI, the blu-ray
player plugs in via HDMI, the TIVO series 2 plug in via S-video &
optical. All of this is outputted to the TV via HDMI and it all works
fine. Perhaps there is some settings that you need to make to tell
things to output over HDMI or such. I know the blu-ray player has
several options that have to do with on-board decoding or output over
bitstream. Since like at one thing component ought to work, though. Is
there some setting in the receiver? Perhaps it is faulty.
Jim Maki
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