Sound only on Dolby/DTS with Bitstreaming

[Averenix]

Hey all,

Firstly I want to say a huge thanks to Shark007 for his codec pack - I've been using them for several years now and it just takes all the hassle out of dealing with this stuff for someone like me. i think a donation is very much in order!

I've just picked up a Yamaha HRT-3064 5.1 receiver and am having a few problems getting the bit-streaming to work properly. I have an HDMI cable running from onboard HDMI (z68 chipset) on the Windows 7 x64 HTPC, to the receiver, then from the receiver to the TV.

As per the guides on this forum, I set up bit-streaming and now when I play a Dolby/DTS video in media center the receiver correctly recognises it and decodes it (awesome!). However when I then play any non-dolby/DTS file afterwards in media center I get no sound. Also media center's sounds themselves don't play. The receiver reports 'PCM' on the display, but the L, R speaker icons are not lit up as they are when all is working.

The other problem I'm having is when playing different content with 'exclusive control' turned on for bit-streaming, the first video plays fine but any subsequent videos hang on a black screen.

Some more info:
- Codecs are latest as of yesterday
- Installed with UAC on
- Have made changes in both x86 & x64 versions
- Windows speakers set to Stereo
- Shark007's Recommended Settings Turned on
- Have clicked 'Enable LAV audio'
- Audio bit-streaming is on 'TrueHD/DTS HD-MA'
- Tried turning everything to FFDShow under SWAP tab, but this made no difference

Any suggestions on all this would be awesome.

Thanks

[Shark007]

check Control Panel | Sound and verify that the output is set to the Intel HDMI device
press [Reset All] in both apps.
go to the Audio TAB of both apps and select the TrueHD/DTS HD-MA setting
go to the MKV TAB and select the LAV splitter

use the button on the Misc TAB [Analyze a media file] to verify that the test file indeed does contain HD audio.
at this point . . .
If you do not get HD audio decoded by the AVR the most likely cause is a setting on the AVR itself. You need to select 'Direct...' as the input setting.