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Post by Priapulus on Mar 25, 2016 17:47:42 GMT -5
If I play a disc, or play a Netflicks movie via Chromecast plugged into my XMC-1, I get wonderful surround sound.
But If I play a movie file on my Win-10 HTPC using VLC, all I get is Stereo. The HTPC is connected to the XMC-1 using a HDMI cable. I don't know if the surround information is missing in the movie rips, or if VLC is set wrong, or if it is a Windows/HDMI problem.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Sincerely
/blair
p.s. Anyone know how to send a Win-10 HTPC movie file to Chromecast?
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Post by millst on Mar 25, 2016 19:14:59 GMT -5
Right-click on your speaker icon in the system tray and go to Playback devices. Choose your HDMI output and press Configure. Set it to 5.1 or 7.1. If that's not it, you'll have to dig through the VLC settings or wait for someone who uses it to point you in the right direction.
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Post by wilburthegoose on Mar 25, 2016 19:52:44 GMT -5
Ditto what Millstone said
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Post by knucklehead on Mar 25, 2016 20:07:22 GMT -5
You can do a right click inside the VLC program - right on the picture - and a contextual menu pops up. Default for VLC Media Player is 2 channel. Select 5.1/7.1 and you should be good to go. You may need to set your Windows audio driver to play multi-channel audio. I've found that its often easier to just burn a disc and play it with the Oppo player. VLC doesn't always recognize multi-channel audio as it should - and some times its something upstream from the VLC player. Seems with Windows it was always something - which is why I switched to Linux. Makes life much easier for me. YMMV.
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Post by foggy1956 on Mar 25, 2016 21:01:16 GMT -5
Or convert to jriver
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Post by wilburthegoose on Mar 26, 2016 6:20:42 GMT -5
I have a hunch the issue isn't in the media player, but in the device's settings.
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Post by yves on Mar 27, 2016 4:43:43 GMT -5
VLC is good for streaming video over a network, but for simple playback of movie files (and of full DVD / Blu-ray rips) that are stored on local harddrives, I prefer to use MPC-HC instead. The built-in LAV Audio Decoder of MPC-HC is excellent IMO (and so are the also built-in LAV Splitter and LAV Video Decoder, for that matter...), and the stuff is not actually that hard to configure. In MPC-HC, hit the O key to go to Options. Under Output, select the Internal Audio Renderer as the Audio Renderer. Under Audio Renderer, select the Device and be sure both the Exclusive mode and Allow bitstreaming checkboxes are ticked. Under Internal Filters, click on the Audio decoder button to bring up the LAV Audio Decoder settings as a separate window. In the Bitstreaming (S/PDIF, HDMI) section, under Formats, tick all the checkboxes you want to use audio bitstreaming for. (There's no separate checkbox for DTS-HD MA, but the DTS-HD checkbox is used for both DTS-HD and DTS-HD MA). Click on OK (twice). (For upscaling video, I highly recommend using MadVR in conjunction with the built-in LAV features of MPC-HC). |
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Post by Geronimo on Mar 27, 2016 5:50:21 GMT -5
I'm using KODI for playing any type of movie file stored on my NAS. KODI is free and I love the movie posters it automatically downloads. go to settings-system-audio, and choose WASAPI HDMI on playback and passed through.
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Post by yves on Mar 27, 2016 8:22:18 GMT -5
I'm using KODI for playing any type of movie file stored on my NAS. KODI is free and I love the movie posters it automatically downloads. go to settings-system-audio, and choose WASAPI HDMI on playback and passed through. FYI, forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=209596 |
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Post by Priapulus on Mar 27, 2016 9:13:50 GMT -5
VLC is good for streaming video over a network, but for simple playback of movie files (and of full DVD / Blu-ray rips) that are stored on local harddrives, I prefer to use MPC-HC instead. The built-in LAV Audio Decoder of MPC-HC is excellent IMO (and so are the also built-in LAV Splitter and LAV Video Decoder, for that matter...), and the stuff is not actually that hard to configure. In MPC-HC, hit the O key to go to Options. Under Output, select the Internal Audio Renderer as the Audio Renderer. Under Audio Renderer, select the Device and be sure both the Exclusive mode and Allow bitstreaming checkboxes are ticked. Under Internal Filters, click on the Audio decoder button to bring up the LAV Audio Decoder settings as a separate window. In the Bitstreaming (S/PDIF, HDMI) section, under Formats, tick all the checkboxes you want to use audio bitstreaming for. (There's no separate checkbox for DTS-HD MA, but the DTS-HD checkbox is used for both DTS-HD and DTS-HD MA). Click on OK (twice). (For upscaling video, I highly recommend using MadVR in conjunction with the built-in LAV features of MPC-HC). I downloaded MPC-HC and followed your instructions and I've got Surround sound! Thank you for your excellent advice. Also, the picture seems better in MPC-HC, though I'm not sure why. No doubt I had VLC configured incorrectly, and I couldn't figure it out. I use "Movie Collector" < www.collectorz.com/movie/> to catalogue my movies. Despite the cost I like it very much. Sincerely /Blair |
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