Interesting! Have to bookmark this for future reference.

Great stuff, thank you for sharing

Thanks all.

I sorted out my problem.
I tried numerous times to update the AMD driver for the Graphics card and it kept failing.
The AMD website kept saying it was the wrong file for my OS.
Anyway, I went and bought a cheap graphics card online. While waiting for it to arrive, I tried one last time to update the driver.
And, suddenly it worked. Always kena like this...buy new and then the old one will decide to work.
So, with the update, the card works well now.
I get Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master now on my AV.

Also, I installed Plex Media Server into my PC based NAS and use Plex Home Theatre for my HTPC.
Also there's mobile apps for iOS and Android too if you wanna pay for it. Haven't tried it though.

Thanks again.

For your mobile decvices, you probably want the Plex but for your HTPC with the Radeon card, it's already powerful enough to direct decode and playback movies from your NAS.

Good that you solve the problem, the bad that you bought a new card and now more likely kept as spare or re-sell.

Can give opinions about asus vivopc...
Planning to take one for my house...

Anybody know how to get 5.1 sound from XBMC when playing AAC 5.1 format. For DTS I can get 5.1 but AAC 5.1 I only get 2.0 sound from my HT.

How good raspberry in handling hd video and audio? Also can l raspberry connect to sound system such as amp

set your speakers configuration in XBMC in 5.1 ch.but if doesn't work download wasapi plug in and used that as audio device output.

hi guys,i need some advice here.Recently i am starting to keep some untouched bluray BD-ISO but sadly to say my AC Ryan HD Mini2 does not seems to be able to play the ISO image file,so as for my Sony S380 BDP.
I however do have a PC which i want to use for my HT which is not the best performance but is an AMD dual core 3.2GHZ CPU,4 GB DDR RAM & Gigabyte HD5670 GPU with HDMI out.
So what software or player do i need to playback the BD-ISO which can bypass the HD Audio and let me Denon 4311 AVR do the decoding of the DTA-HDMA/Dolby True HD to my 5.1 system?
I am planning to hunt for an Oppo BDP93 but currently this is all i have,please help.Thanks

xbmc,media player classic,splash pro,total media theater and many more most of then can bitsteam to your avr..

Thanks, will give XBMC a try out tonight.btw I am now considering for a 3.5" 2TB HDD, which one is better WD 2TB green or red ??

Guys..my htpc setup will be like this
Intel core 2 quad 2.33ghz
Asus board
Gigabyte 9800gt 1gb silent cell
320gb hdd for windows and applications
2tb + 1 tb for media files
500w power supply
Will the power be sufficient?

By right if your PSU is the 500W pure power, no issues at all. Get a UPS unit just in case blackout since you are using a few HDDs at one time. JMHO😀

Thhanks. Noted

I had the same issue. To fix this, u have to set your "Audio Output" to HDMI. If you are using optical/coax, don't worry, changing this will not affect your ouput driver.
After this, XMBC will convert correctly from AAC 5.1 to DD 5.1

Yes it works, thanks

I just plug in my Apple Mac Mini using XBMC to run BD-ISO on my HT system and for those who are new,here is some settings you need to do on the OS X settings.
1. Go to system preference -> sounds ( there will pop up a window box and first setting is sound effects,choose the ' play sound effect through' to your AVR name
2. Go to Output and select your AVR name
3. Go to XBMC and in the audio settings choose Audio Output to HDMI

Then we are all set to enjoy decoded DD 5.1 from AVR.

One thing I am not sure is why it can't decode DTS-HDMA as my ISO has the audio imbedded on it? Can anyone explain what I am missing?

This post has been edited by Mikeyz: Feb 11 2014, 10:58 PM

Anyone using their HTPC to watch 3D movie?

My projector is Optomo HD66 so it only support 3D by DLP Link using OpenGL Stereo. So far the only video player software that can get 3D is Bino 3D, but this software update is damn slow.. and got very annoying bugs when display subtitle. Anyone else know any other software that can send the correct 3D signal to the projector? Or is there a way to configure MPC to send the correct signal? How about XBMC? Does it support 3D like Bino?

I encounter this problem before,in my solution i used wasapi plugin(plug in foobar 2000 player)and its really work ,maybe others have another solution