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More => Old Versions => Media Center 17 => Topic started by: sfric on January 31, 2012, 06:15:33 pm
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I recently purchased Media Center and I'm really enjoying it. However, today, I began experimenting with some settings in DSP Studio and can't figure this out... I choose 2.1 channels (5.1 ch) and set the Subwoofer setting to 90hz. When I try to play music with this setting, I get an error message stating
"Playback could not be started using the format: 96000 Hz, 24 bits per sample, 6 channels.
This format would work 9600 Hz, 24 bits per sample, 2 channel"
Would you like to have > DSP Studio Output Format settings changed automatically?
I then choose "Change Settings and Continue Playback" and then it works fine using 2 channel.
What am I doing wrong?
Here's a little background on my equipment:
Windows 7 PC connected via USB to Musical Fidelity Vlink and then Optical Out to my receiver
Most of my music is 96/24 Flac
Don't get me wrong, it sounds great in 2 channel but I just wanted to see if listening in these other modes would improve my experience at all.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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What output mode are you using? (ASIO, WASAPI, Kernel Streaming, etc)
I am wondering if you settings in Windows mixer could be messing with something.
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Can you go straight from the PC to the receiver? Optical, SP/DIF, HDMI? If you do that, the receiver can decode what MC sends.
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S/PDIF isn't multichannel. It supports only 2 channel stereo, i.e. the audio device that MC sees has only two channels. Unless the output signal is re-encoded to the compressed and lossy Dolby Digital format so that S/PDIF can transmit it and the receiver has a Dolby Digital decoder, 2.1 or more channels is not possible.
HDMI could transmit multi-channel audio, but Musical Fidelity Vlink is strictly a USB to S/PDIF converter.