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July 24, 2013 at 1:02 am #7785
htpc_user

    I got my receiver and HTPC to working together (knock on wood).  But I still have a question.  What I did was similar to what NightCactus suggested; I set Windows to stereo and at first I set Media Center to stereo as well.  That worked the way I wanted it to.  Messed with it some more and left Windows at stereo and MC to 5.1.  That worked as well; it doesn’t seem to matter how Media Center is set.  It’s still going to bitstream DD & DTS and it will still play 2 channel sources as stereo.

    So the question I have to you all using receivers, if you have Windows set to HDMI and configured as 5.1 (or 7.1) does your receiver show “Mulit In” or something similar?  I’m a member over at AVS and have posted in the Denon X Series “Official” forum and there’s a guy on there who says he uses a 6450 (I have a 6570), he has Windows set to HDMI/5.1, and he says his receiver does not show “Multi In” when the HTPC is just sitting on the desktop.  On mine, as soon as I configure Windows to 5.1 my receiver immediately changes to “Multi In” even when just on the desktop doing nothing else.  The problem with this is when I play my recorded shows that I have recorded from the satellite box, which are all 2 channel, they play back in ONLY 2 channel.  I can’t use the receiver’s surround modes to apply anything like DTS Neo or Pro Logic II.  This is because the HTPC is doing the decoding and not the receiver.

    Doing things the way I described in the first paragraph works 98% of the time but there is a problem with that.  Any bluray that only has an LPCM 5.1 or 7.1 track is sent to the receiver as 2  channels and then played back in DTS Neo 6 Cinema which is what I have the receiver to default to on the HTPC’s input.  I think in that case Windows would have to be set to 5.1 so that it will do the decoding and pass it to the Denon.

    What am I missing or is this what you guys are experiencing too?