LeeD Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Hello, I have spent a couple of hours searching/googling for an answer to this, so if there's a topic already and I've missed it then apologies!I have a Creative Audigy Platinum Pro ZS and Creative 5.1 speakers. If I play a 5.1 video in Media Player Classic I get 5.1 surround, however if I play the same video in Media Center 2005 I get stereo mixed over all speakers rather than 5.1 Anybody had this problem? or know of a fix?I have tried with and without Rollup 2 and the problem seems to occur in both situations.Very confused!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinodh Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Check the settings of the DVD decoder that you are using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeD Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 (edited) I have the Nvidia Pureview Decoder installed. I have used the "Microsoft Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility" and everything is fine, it's set as the default decoder etc.I was previously using the Cyberlink decoder and had the problem then too. Just to add, I have setup my speakers in MCE as 5.1 and it detected all the speakers fine, but still not working! Edited January 4, 2007 by LeeD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascii2 Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 (edited) I was not ware that the Audigy series had a ZS card (I am thinking it does not really).If the sound card driver is like what I am using (Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS), check the Creative Audio Console "Speakers" tab and assure that settings are correct. Also assure that settings of "Sounds and Multimedia Properties" (name string may be different) control panel are correct (View all "Advanced" settings).Regarding vinodh's comment, for conveinience I uploaded the utility RadLight Filter Manager 1.4 to manage codecs (codec property pages may be accessed) to RapidShare (file too large to attach).RadLight Filter Manager 1.4http://rapidshare.com/files/17335447/rlfm_bin1_4.zip.html211,900 bytes Edited February 24, 2007 by Ascii2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeD Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 I was not ware that the Audigy series had a ZS card (I am thinking it does not really).If the sound card driver is like what I am using (Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS), check the Creative Audio Console "Speakers" tab and assure that settings are correct. Also assure that settings of "Sounds and Multimedia Properties" (name string may be different) control panel are correct (View all "Advanced" settings).Regarding vinodh's comment, for conveinience I uploaded the utility RadLight Filter Manager 1.4 to manage codecs (codec property pages may be accessed) to RapidShare (file too large to attach).RadLight Filter Manager 1.4http://rapidshare.com/files/17335447/rlfm_bin1_4.zip.html211,900 bytesYes, 2 ZS if you want to get really anal about it! lolI had already tried your suggestions before I posted the thread, but thanks anyways. I finally resolved the situation by over riding the AC3 codec settings to output evrything as 5.1 sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fascix Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 (edited) Have you checked the Purevideo config utility? I think you have to start media center and then play the video file and then minimize Media center the get the config util to show in the system tray. not sure how to set it up though but ill think you figgure it out.another thing could be to install ffdshow and set it up from there Edited April 14, 2007 by Fascix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Try Update Rollup2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinodh Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 It was mentioned in the 1st post the he had already tried using update rollup 2. He has the same problem with or without that update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Definitely a codec problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeD Posted April 20, 2007 Author Share Posted April 20, 2007 I finally resolved the situation by over riding the AC3 codec settings to output evrything as 5.1 sound lol. I hadn't set the AC3/ffdshow codecs up properly. Thanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinodh Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Nice to here! Thanks for keeping us updated. Hopefully, this will help prevent others from having the same problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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