5.1 surround stream

[gambit]

i have a whs 2011 which i use to stream my movies and i decided to try this codec pack to see if i could enable mkv playback and also enable 5.1 audio.

I have succeeded with the mkv playback but i am having difficulty enabling it to stream 5.1, it always steams 2 channels, the video is encoded in 5.1.


Any help would be aprreciated

[Shark007]

tell me about your sound device(s) and connections. (hdmi?, spdif?)

[gambit]

(06-03-2012 10:46 AM)Shark007 Wrote:  tell me about your sound device(s) and connections. (hdmi?, spdif?)

i have a ex485 with windows 2011 installed which stream my content to my ps3 which is connected to a Home theater receiver Sony STR-DE995 thru toslink, (digital cable)

[Shark007]

I am unfamiliar with the playback capabilities of the PS3 unit.
I would think you problem is here.

My codecs are for PC playback, not device playback although I do include the DivX Media Foundation splitter to assist with MKV playback on such devices but I do not own such a device for testing.

[gambit]

(06-03-2012 10:59 AM)Shark007 Wrote:  I am unfamiliar with the playback capabilities of the PS3 unit.
I would think you problem is here.

My codecs are for PC playback, not device playback although I do include the DivX Media Foundation splitter to assist with MKV playback on such devices but I do not own such a device for testing.

I know that the ps3 plays the format because if i use ps3 media server it actually plays the media in 5.1 but the software is buggy and requires alot of cpu power.

anyways i tried having ffdshow play the audio for me in windows media player but the icon never appears on the bottom, i was wondering if that has anything to due with it

[Shark007]

the PS3 has its own decoders and does not use the PC installed decoders. The only thing the PC does is 'split' the media file into its RAW components and sends these to the PS3 for further processing (playback). It is possible that the file you are attempting to play contains multiple audio streams and the PS3 is defaulting to the 2.0 track.

you can check the contents of media files using the button on the Misc TAB, [Analyze a media file]

[gambit]

(06-03-2012 11:07 AM)Shark007 Wrote:  the PS3 has its own decoders and does not use the PC installed decoders. The only thing the PC does is 'split' the media file into its RAW components and sends these to the PS3 for further processing (playback). It is possible that the file you are attempting to play contains multiple audio streams and the PS3 is defaulting to the 2.0 track.

you can check the contents of media files using the button on the Misc TAB, [Analyze a media file]

i know its not the ps3 because if i use this software ps3 media server
http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/ it plays as 5.1, i believe its windows is transcoding it to 2 channel

[Shark007]

you could try disabling the Microsoft Audio decoder on the SWAP TAB to eliminate it from the decoder chain.

[gambit]

(06-03-2012 11:10 AM)Shark007 Wrote:  you could try disabling the Microsoft Audio decoder on the SWAP TAB to eliminate it from the decoder chain.

i have attempted that but had no luck.... thanks for attempting to assist my problem