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[cncb]

I have extracted some Dolby Digital audio (AC3) files from some of my DVD-Audio disks to play in MC.  I renamed the AC3 files to WAV and strangely they play back even without ASIO.  The problem is that it always seems to output the file to the default sound device in Windows no matter what zone it is played from.  I have been able to modify the DVD playback so that it uses a non-default sound device but is there a similar control for AC3 audio file playback??

[Alex B]

What do you use for decoding? Do you use a digital connection and a HT receiver?

[cncb]

Yes, sorry.  I am using S/PDIF out (ChainTech AV710) to a receiver.

[cncb]

Any ideas?  I am able to play these DD files in Windows Media Player and can output them to S/PDIF of either of my soundcards by changing the "Speakers" setting.  Does anyone know what controls this in MC?  It doesn't seem to use the DVD output settings nor the output settings for WMP.

[Alex B]

I have never tried what you described.

I have used Matroska containers for AC3 files. Then MC plays them like video files and the playback is routed through the OS level codecs.

I have gathered some links to related forum topics here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=30049.msg207217#msg207217

[cncb]

I just noticed that the Playing Now display screen shows "DirectX Player" as the visualization.  Anyone know how to direct the sound to a particular sound card for the "DirectX Player"?

[cncb]

Can someone at JRiver please tell me how to route Dolby Digital WAV output to a non-primary sound card??  This is problematic in my multizone setup.  Thanks.

[Yaobing]

This will be fixed in the next build (11.1.162 or later).

[cncb]

This seems to work very well.  Thanks!