DTS Playback

[Krypt0n1te]

Can someone PLEASE help me troubleshoot the following?

DTS Playback from PC through optical/spdif/toslink cable to Receiver.

Equipment:

Win7 Ultimate 32bit

Motherboard Asus m4a785td-m evo
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=QHbvGVB1mXmmD8qQ&templete=2

Audio chip VT1708S 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/audio/codecs/hd-codecs.jsp

Receiver/Speakers Logitech Z-5500
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/speakers_audio/home_pc_speakers/devices/224

Now the bizarre part 1
When I go to the properties of my HD Audio device, and I do the tests there, the DD and DTS
works fine as well as all the sample rates including 44.1.
If I play the DD test my receiver shows DD
If I play the DTS test my receiver shows DTS
So i am PRETTY sure my equipment (Hardware) is capable of everything.
(By the way, where does Windows store those test samples? what is the bits and rates?)

Now the bizarre part 2
If I play my movie through XBMC I get the DD stream on my receiver.
If I play my movie through normal players (WMP or VLC), the stream is mixed down.

Now the bizarre part 3
None of my Kelly industries samples want to play in DTS, the stream is mixed down.

WHAT ON EARTH AM I DOING WRONG?
Why do my Windows test files work and shows the correct stream???
But through the normal players it doesn't work??
Can anyone recommend different programs instead of VLC (which I think is kick-ass)?

Thanks!

Posted in Hardware forum as well, mods please remove if necessarily.

 

[Soul Assassin]

I don't know what your doing wrong but you say XBMC works then why not just use that?

 

[Krypt0n1te]

XBMC is awesome for the movies, the problem is with the DTS music files, not working on WMP nor VLC nor XBMC.

 

[Yuu]

This is a setting in the player you are using, can you tell us which version of VLC you using?

If you are using V1.05 Goldeneye, do the following.

In VLC goto
Tools>Preferences>Audio > Tick USE S/PDIF when available & > Output Type > WaveOut

This should work, let us know if you having any issues.

Regards,

Yuu

 

[Krypt0n1te]

Hi Yuu, thanks for reply
Have done the above, and things are looking much better! The files that VLC wouldn't play works on MPC Home Cinema and vice verse.
I still have problems with 3 files. All of them being 44.1KHz DTS .wav files. Any idea why these don't want to play??

I get a detecting DTS and DTS signal loop on my receiver display when i try to play these files through VLC, on MPCHC i just get noise.