5.1 sound with PowerDVD & SFP ?

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 3:05 pm

Any of you guys had any success with using SFP to monitor 5.1 sound from PowerDVD ?
PowerDVD doesn't seem to recognize the digital wave source as a valid sp-dif output, or the good old 16 channel wave driver as being multichannel ? (I can get l & r channel out of it, but nothing on 3-6.)

Any ideas ?

Kim.

ds-sound · Post by **ds-sound** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 9:47 am

I'm not entirely sure what's the case here... What exactly are you trying to do? Compose music for 5.1? Sample 5.1 input? Use the surround system as an additional monitoring component?

What i/os doesn't match, and what are the error messages, if any?

Perhaps its my imperfect English, but I can hardly understand the difficulties you're facing.

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kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 1:03 pm

I simply want to monitor the 5.1 sound coming out of PowerDVD, via SFP...
But PowerDVD only sees SFP as a stereo output ?

Kim.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 1:23 pm

Hi Kim... I use PowerDvD 4 deluxe with sfp like this

I connect directlydigital wav source to spdif out of my luna, and monitor 5.1 thru a 5.1 system...

If i want to monitor all 5.1 channel on my 2 monitor instead of 5.1 system, i use 3x24 wav source connected into a mixer, then mix them directly in stereo.

Yes, the 16 wav interleave driver isn't recognized by PowerDvD, but 3x24bits wav source is... So in PowerDvD, select 6 speaker output... it'll work.

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 3:46 pm

Thanx marcuspocus, but I already tried that

Are you doing this under WinXP ?

I also tried WinDVD with the same result...
The Intervideo website suggests that I go into the advanced section of the audio controlpanel and turn surround on, but that setting is not available in XP ???

Kim.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 8:07 am

Yes i'm under XP...

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 7:19 am

I still can't get it to work

Maybe I'll have to do a complete re-install of SFP to get it working...

Did you set up anything in the advanced section of the audio controlpanel ?
Are you able to access it at all ?

What are your wavedriver settings ? (No. of ports and channels.)

Does PowerDVD recognise the Creamware drivers in "info" part of the settings dialog ?

Kim.

lionel · Post by **lionel** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 11:40 am

I have a similar problem :
which "software I/O" of the pulsar II allows to play all 6 channels of my DVD ?
(I use then the "ADAT Dest" to go to the loudspeakers).

Thanks for your help.

Lionel

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 1:51 pm

Hey, wait a second you all...

This was working before, i recorded tracks like that, but now, to make sure, i did a test, and i have the same problem as you!!!

Damn! I can't have more than 2channels now!

I'll have to reinstall PowerDvD3 to see if it is the PowerDvD4 version that create this...

Don't reinstall all yet!

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 5:16 pm

marcuspocus, did you test any further ?

I've solved it for the time being: I bought a dvd-player with decoder & 5.1 analog out !!!

Kim.

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