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Need advice on HDMI to PCM decoding
Bob4K:
--- Quote from: dtc on October 20, 2024, 08:08:55 am ---The Panasonic DP-U9000 player will split the audio and video and also decode the audio to PCM.
As suggested before, why not use a AV Receiver with 2 HDMI outputs? It can split the signal and decode to PCM.
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Because I have already a very good AV receiver, and I just want to make it work.
And I am already using for the moment an Oppo 203 the same way you suggest with the Panny. That works, but with too many devices in the loop (as it would be with another AVR), sometimes there is an handshaking problem that needs powering off and on to get back the audio.
Anyway, as I said, I'll try an HDCP stripper. It seems now like the simpler solution.
dtc:
The suggestion is to just use the receiver as a splitter and decoder.
Bob4K:
--- Quote from: dtc on October 20, 2024, 08:35:07 am ---The suggestion is to just use the receiver as a splitter and decoder.
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Actually, good idea, I did not understand exactly what you meant.
I did not realize that a cheap receiver can decode and output PCM over HDMI. It could indeed serve as a simple splitter, for much less cost than an HTPC.
Edit: I'm not sure that it's allowed for an HDCP device to decode to full PCM muti-channel protected content. Most of the time, receivers are set to send PCM when they speak to a TV that needs only a stereo input. Another can of worms!
dtc:
Agreed, I do not know the HDCP implications.
craigmcg:
@Bob4k - I understand the desire to use hardware that you already have because I have non HDMI audio and HDMI video because I can't justify the cost of replacing good quality audio electronics to myself, much less my wife. I was very fortunate that the now discontinued Topping DM7 DAC permitted this for me (with the support of JRiver expert users). This said, based on the information provided by you and more expert people than me, it seems that your options are either:
1) to keep dealing with the nuisance behaviours using your current hardware workarounds or
2) get lucky with the HDCP stripping that you're considering or
2) to make hardware changes to either go with an HTPC as the source through your Goldmund based audio system or replace your Goldmund setup with an AVR.
I hope that you or the experts can find an acceptable solution,
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