Blu-Ray playback issue

[Rossko_UK]

So I was planning sit down and watch my first ever Blu-Ray movie in my own home with my GF, but there's a major problem. For whatever reason, the audio is not being played in surround sound, and as such the voices get all scratchy and thus completely destroys the HD feeling I was building up.

So does anyone have any ideas as to why it does this? I've fiddled around in the settings but an't find anything that might be wrong.

Cheers for the help in advance! :)

[Rival24]

There's a bunch of audio settings you can fiddle around with. Go to BD/DVD settings and try changing the "BD Audio Output Format (Optical Digital)" setting.

[Rossko_UK]

There's a bunch of audio settings you can fiddle around with. Go to BD/DVD settings and try changing the "BD Audio Output Format (Optical Digital)" setting.

Yeah I fiddled in there, didn't seem to work. I'll have to try again

I solved the scratching, seems to be a problem with my speakers that I sorted. Just the issue of surround sound now. Good job I've gotta load of HD-DVDs to watch too :P

[Voyager2k]

What's your sound setup like ? HDMI -> AMP -> Speakers/TV or are you using the optical output ? Make sure optical is set to bitstream and hdmi is set to pcm otherwise all kinds of strange fallback-situations can occur. DO NOT, as tempting as it is, set optical to pcm. Even tho most AMPS do support it, it will only be stereo and not 5.1 discreete.

[Rossko_UK]

What's your sound setup like ? HDMI -> AMP -> Speakers/TV or are you using the optical output ? Make sure optical is set to bitstream and hdmi is set to pcm otherwise all kinds of strange fallback-situations can occur. DO NOT, as tempting as it is, set optical to pcm. Even tho most AMPS do support it, it will only be stereo and not 5.1 discreete.

Right OK, thanks for that. I'll try that tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

And I'm just using optical, no HDMI plug in here.

[Voyager2k]

Right OK, thanks for that. I'll try that tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

And I'm just using optical, no HDMI plug in here.

Then you should be fine with optical set to bitstream. Just curious, what AMP are you using ? I had a similar problem with my htpc audio once and it turned out that my amp sometimes messed the audio up when the pc started playback on a damaged audio frame.

EDIT: I completely forgot about the Audio Setup Settings. What did you enable there ? Usually should be DD5.1, DTS5.1, 2ch 44.1khz, 2ch 48khz for a run of the mill AMP/receiver.

[Rossko_UK]

Well your earlier suggestion works just fine now, cheers.



EDIT: I completely forgot about the Audio Setup Settings. What did you enable there ? Usually should be DD5.1, DTS5.1, 2ch 44.1khz, 2ch 48khz for a run of the mill AMP/receiver.

I ticked all available options yeah.

Then you should be fine with optical set to bitstream. Just curious, what AMP are you using ? I had a similar problem with my htpc audio once and it turned out that my amp sometimes messed the audio up when the pc started playback on a damaged audio frame.

This is my setup:

http://www.pcwb.com/products/LOGSP043.jpg

Specs here (http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/LOGSP043?cidp=Froogle)

Got mine cheaper than that price though :)