[mythtv-users] Not the usual problem with digital passthrough.

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> says:
>> Agreed. I have to set my upmix to Passive. Linear works ok on
>> recordings from my 5.1 sources, but I can barely hear anything on my
>> stereo sources. Passive has terrible stereo separation (sounds like
>> everything is happening in the center channel) but the volume is  
>> good.
>
> Brad, how does your experience fit with what I describe at
> <URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ 
> 318622#318622>?

I'm using S/PDIF from my motherboard to my receiver. Using passive,  
everything sounds ok with files from my HDHR and pcHDTV-5500 as well  
as from my PVR-150/350 cards (aside from poor stereo separation on the  
analog cards which is to be expected). Using active, the HDHR and  
pcDTV-5500 recordings sound the same (passing through the good audio,  
I'm assuming), but I have to crank my receiver almost all the way up  
to hear anything recorded from my analog cards. I didn't really play  
with the settings all that much to try to fix anything. I just  
switched it back to passive and left it there.