Setting Up Bitstreaming With Your Windows 7 HTPC PART I Media. Smart. Server. net. If you have been following along with my last few posts The Family IT Guy and Setting Up MPC the main goal that I was working towards was to finally set up bitstreaming of HD Audio DTS MA and True. HD with my HTPC. Leading up to the last few months this was only possible by using an expensive sound card such as the Xonar HDAV1. Power. DVD and Total. Media Theatre. Additionally, this would only work either from a Blu Ray disc or a Blu Ray disc imagestructure, so you were out of luck if you had ripped your Blu Ray discs into formats like mkv. This was less then ideal for me since whenever I purchase a Blu Ray movie the first thing I do is rip it to my server in either ts or mkv format, so I would need to reformat my Blu Ray rips into a Blu Ray structure and also pay to use one of the 3rd party softwares. 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With the latest beta FFDShow, you can now bitstream from standalone files using either MPC or WMCWMP. Thanks to the help of the folks over at AVSForum especially Tulli who provided much of the information for this guide, Andy o, vladd, and Samuri. HL and of course the work by Damien on FFDShow I now have bitstreaming workingThe steps are slightly different for setting up using MPC HC Part I or WMCWMP Part II, so I will try to work through each situation. Also, I can only verify that this works with my setup, so different setups may yield different results. Game Name Game Description ViewsRoboid IncorporatedRoboid is a free, mobilefriendly scifi RPG with a rich mission and story system. You are a new citizen in a. Sophie Turner, best known as Sansa Stark in the hit HBO show Game of Thrones, has a lot of followers on social media. And according to Turner, producers take that. DISCLAIMER It is highly recommended that you have a backup or image of your OS that you can revert to in the instance that something doesnt work. Really this should be done before installing any software, but I find it particularly important when dealing with codecsfilters. Also, make sure you download the correct files x. When I first set up my PC I make a backup immediately with WHS I call the backup something like W7 Clean and lock the backup so it does not get deleted. Start Skipping Program. I have used WHS quite a few times to restore to this backup and it has worked like a charm. My Setup Windows 7 x. HTPC w Sapphire 5. GPU connected to Receiver via HDMIOnkyo TX SR9. AVR, 5. 1 speaker setup connected to TV via HDMIPanasonic Viera TH 5. Toca Race Driver 3 Full Version more. PZ8. 00. U Plasma HDTVHardware Requirements PC running Windows preferably Windows 7 with either an AMD 5xxx GPU, Intel i. Clarkdale CPU, or HD Bitstream capable Sound Card. A Receiver that can decode the DTSMA and True. HDSETTING UP WITH MPC HCFiles to Download Setup 1. Install AMD Video Card Driver only applies to 5xxx GPU. Restart PC2. Install Realtek ATI HDMI Audio Driver only applies to 5xxx GPU or Intel Driver. Restart PC3. Set up HDMI Audio showing setup using 5xxx GPUIn toolbar right click on speaker icon and go to Playback Devices. The Realtek HDMI Output should be set as default under the Playback Tab. Highlight this, and click the Configure button. Walk through the speaker setup, which is pretty self explanatory. After the Speaker Setup is complete you should be back at the Playback Tab. Select Real. Tek HDMI Output and click the Properties button. Under the Supported Formats tab, you should see all supported formats, including DTS HD and True. In Your Brain Monophonics. HD. 4. UPDATE IT APPEARS THAT WITH THE LATEST ATI CCC RELEASE 1. THE EDID ISSUE HAS BEEN FIXED, SO THIS STEP SHOULD NO LONGER BE NEEDEDDownload and install EDID override only applies to 5xxx GPU. There appears to be an issue with the ATI drivers not parsing correctly the EDID of certain receivers. Hopefully this will be fixed in an upcoming driver release, but until then you can override the current driver to correct. To make it even more confusing, it appears to only affect Denon, Onkyo, and Sony but even then not all models. Best idea would be to skip this step completely, set everything up, and if bitstreaming is not working install the EDID override per Tullis instructions. Download necessary EDID and extract somewhere on your PCRight click on desktop and select PersonalizeClick on Display Change Display Settings. Click on Screen of AVR display click Advanced SettingsSelect Monitor Tab PropertiesSelect Driver Tab Update DriverSelect Browse my computer for updates Let me pick from a list of drivers my computer Have Disk Browse navigate to display device. Click Open OK Install new driver. Reboot. 5. Install FFDShow. Launch ffdshow audio decoder configuration, go into Output, and tick off all the audio options under the Pass through SPDIF, HMDI settings. EDIT IF YOU GET AN ACM WRAPPER ERROR WHEN PLAYING MOVIES WITH LPCM TRACKS, GO INTO THE CODECS SECTION OF FFDSHOW AUDIO, SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM, AND FOR UNCOMPRESSED CHANGE FROM DISABLED TO ALL SUPPORTED. BIG THANKS TO DSUDOT FOR HELPING ME TROUBLESHOOT. Install Direct. X End User Runtime if necessary. Install MPC HC. Open MPC HC, go to View Options. Under Output keep default settings. Make sure Audio Renderer is set to System DefaultUnder Internal Filters uncheck H2. AVC ffmpeg and VC1 ffmpegUnder External Filters click the Add Filter button. Select ffdshow Audio Decoder and click OKHighlight ffdshow Audio Decoder and tick PreferFollow the same process, except this time select Microsoft DTV DVD Audio Decoder and set it to Block8. Now it is the moment of truth. Navigate to one of more movies that has a DTSMA or True. HD audio track and play it with MPC HC. If all went well you should see the the DTSMA or True. HD logo light up on your Receiver. You can also verify by placing your cursor over the ffdshow icon in your toolbar pictures below in the bottom right hand cornerThe beauty of using MPC HC as your player is that many Media Center platforms supports the use of a 3rd party player such as MPC. For instance, check out this guide on how to set up MPC as your 3rd party player in WMC Media Browser. If you have any problems I would definitely recommend visiting one of the resources mentioned below, as there is a wealth of information and very helpful members. Part II, which will explain how to set up bitstreaming in WMC using the default WMP player, can be found here. UPDATE an alternative to using FFDShow for HD Audio bitstreaming is LAV Audio. See my guide here. LinksResources Tagged as. Bitstreaming. DTSMA. Media Center. Media Streaming.