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volumnus · (This post was last modified: 02-19-2012 01:22 PM by volumnus.)

(02-19-2012 01:05 PM)volumnus Wrote:
(02-19-2012 12:53 PM)volumnus Wrote:
(02-19-2012 12:43 PM)Shark007 Wrote: what graphics gpu?
what is the physical audio connection? PC >>> HDMI >>> AVR ?

I am connecting my laptop with an HDMI cable to my Denon receiver.

My laptop has an NVIDIA Geforce 9m graphics card. When I updated the driver earlier today, it also installed an HD audio driver.

My laptop is several years old, but I figured it would pass the audio track through to the receiver even if the on board graphics card wasn't up to snuff. If I wasted your time, I'm really sorry. When I play a blu-ray in my DVD player, the DTS-HD display lights up on the front of my receiver, so I know it has to be the laptop's hardware or software. The receiver is almost brand new.

Thanks. I've been using your stuff for a long time. I apologize for wasting your valuable time.

(02-19-2012 01:07 PM)Shark007 Wrote: The receiver has no issue accepting and decoding HD audio. (from a stanalone blu-ray player)
The laptop is just to old for this. you would need at a minimum, a 460m processor.

I just wired my house with gigabit ethernet. I have a high end blu-ray player in my living room and a streaming media player in my bedroom that are both capable of playing 1080P/DTS-HD files over the network. Will I need to invest in a new laptop or, since both the DVD Player and the Streaming Media Player can open files on my laptop via Cifs and DLNA, can I bypass the laptop's shortcomings and let the DVD player or the streaming media player do the work? Or, since the files are stored on my PC, will I need to move them to an external hard drive?