Hi all,
I am fairly new to jriver and i love it. For the most i have everything working as it should, except i ran into a bump in the road.
I have an nuc hooked up to my denon receiver via hdmi. I use the nuc as a jriver client to playback from jriver server. The nuc is plugged into one input on the receiver and i have the two receiver outputs going to a tv and a philips hue sync box. I use the nuc two ways, one to play to my main zone speakers 11 ch and then to zone 2 to my 2 ch speakers. Sometimes i will play to both zones simultaneously and other times i will play to either main zone or zone 2. The issue here is that when the receiever is off or the nuc input is not selected my nuc shows no audio device. I have jriver set to launch at startup and basically it is always running. The issue is that once i either switch input on denon or shut the denon and jriver is opened, basically the next time or if i vnc in to the nuc jriver is frozen and has to be closed and restarted. i know the issue is related to edid, so i bought 2 boxes to test. That is issue number one.
Second issue is being i have two different zones of speakers, the nuc is supposed to pick that up. say for main zone, the properties of the audio should be max 8 ch. where zone 2, max ch is 2. Using the edid box i tricked the system, i put my main zone on with the nuc input selected and it shows in the properties denon avr with 8 ch max and all the bit rates etc. and i copied that to the device. So basically if i put zone 2 on the nuc thinks there are 8 chs, which is fine because i am jriver as wasapi so any 2 ch files will play through those 2 speakers. i tried 5.1 and 7.1 flac while on zone 2 and it did not play which is fine, but what i did was put on main zone at the same time and the main played the 7ch....also if i play 2 ch file both main and zone 2 work this way.
I have gotten this far, it's been a long day.....what ideally i am looking for now is this. The one box that i did not get these results never dropped the signal, whether anything was on/off etc.
This box seems to drop the signal for a second and comes back regardless of what input or power state receiver is in. the problem here now is that if an audio track was playing in order for me to not have jriver freeze i have to hit stop and then i am good to go. where as the other box when the receiver was off or input switched the song kept playing and playist kept going, which was good if i wanted to turn system on and then use my phone to control jriver. where as this way, if i goto use my phone most likely sending the tracks will freeze the progrma and then i will have to vnc in or goto nuc itself and restart/
Is there anyway that if there is a signal drop, i can have jriver stop playing? i already checked off dont put display to sleep for hdmi audio no good.
The next question is was all the above necessary could i achieve this an other way?
Thank you! There is alot of good info above it may help people as well!
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Topic: JRiver as a client on an htpc connected to a receiver (Read 838 times)