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Since visiting this thread, I finally found a card that works well for me in every situation: the Audigy 2 Value (OEM). When I had dropouts there was no discernable pattern in time, however, it *did* seem as if the dropouts were more likely to occur during moments when the soundtrack was especially loud or busy. The way it was narrowed down was because the dropouts occured every "X seconds apart" There was a post months back that described this same problem and it turned out to be something "dialing out" that messed up the stream. That did not help anything.Īre the dropouts spaced apart equally in time or is there no pattern?
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I also applied the most recent BIOS upgrades to the Dell box and there was actually a patch specifically for Audigy 2 soundcards. Can it be something to do with the content encoding ? As I said, I tried 2-3 other DVDs which played just fine.
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Dont know if PC drives are more sensitive or not.Īctually I used dvdshrink on one of them and the backed up disk also had sameīehavior on the other PC. They seem to play fine on regular DVD player. Is there something in specific DVDs that can cause these sort of problem? I doubt these discs are scratched or something. But the picture here remained smooth and nice.
After a while I started to notice dropouts here too, even though it was quite less than the other PC. This machine has 1GB RAM and a Radeon 9600 with 256M memory. There would be some choppyness in picture too when this is happening and CPU util seems to be very high.Īfter this I tried the Lost in transltation in my living room HTPC which is hooked up to a B&K Ref 30 processor using an older Live 5.1 Digital soundblaster card. Then I tried Minority Report and La Femme Nikita and I had no problem! I put back in Bourne Report and the same problem happened.
Both of these play fine on regular DVD player. Then I put in Lost in Translation and had same problem. I started to get pretty irritating sound droptouts as soon as I put in the fist DVD after this soundcard upgrade. This came with the PC which has 512M RAM. I have one of those external Cambridge Soundworks 5500 Doby Digital Decoder units that I bought a few years ago and used with another PC. I have recently upgraded my Dell 8100's original Soundblaster Live card to Audigy 2 ZS because it has a SPDIF output. Can anyone tell me if the issue is the sound card? Would/do other cards have better "passthru" ability? I just don't want to get a different card, only to suffer the same issues. My preference is certainly to use Dolby when available. In this method, I had no droputs, even though the signal was still SPDIF(telling me the cable is OK).
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The Denon then registered digital input, but of course it was not Dolby because the SoundBlaster was processing the signal, and so the Denon's Pro Logic scheme was used. Suspecting a bad cable or connection, I checked the "Digital Output Only" box on the creative speaker settings panel. This is also true of a DVD played in the Dell. When watching an HDTV broadcast with Dolby 5.1, the Denon switches to digital input, and indicates Dolby Digital, as the Soundblaster is "passing through" the dolby signal, but I get frequent audio dropouts. I have both a SPDIF digital coax cable connected to a Denon 2803 coax in, and an analog stereo cable connected to the same Denon in an analog input. On the creative speaker settings, I have left the "Digital Output Only" box unchecked. In WMC 2005, I have set the speakers to SPDIF, as well as in the DVD Audio settings. I have a Dell 8400 with an ATI HDTV Wonder card and SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card.