Yamaha HTR6030 Audio input problem

[Skizzarz]

Picked this thing up today, sweeeeet.

I'm a computer nerd, naturally this thing is being hooked up to my PC. My bedroom is my home theater.

SO. I plug my digital coxial cable from digital audio out on my puter, to the digital coax in on the reciever, me and my dad were playing around with it and we had it working fine for a while, we were having the problem at first, but he said he pushed the 'audio select' button on the amp, put it to auto, and it worked fine... he goes to bed, I start setting up speakers around my room and plugging them in, turn the reciever on, and I get the same problem we breifly had... the reciever says 'Not Available, Analog Selected'. Apparently I want digital.

Why the fook is a problem at all?

Please help, if there's anything else you need to know, just ask, I'll detail until I'm deceased.

I just want to listen to some screwed and chopped...

 

[MDS]

You have to do two things:
1. Set the audio select to Auto.
2. Assign the coax digital input to a selector; ie if you want to use 'video 1' for sound from the computer you have to assign the coax input to video 1.

 

[Skizzarz]

I had it on auto select input already, and had it set to dvd which is where the coax goes to...

Gave yamaha a call to fiddle with it, he said with the auto select it's got to be the output signal from the computer... I checked around in my soundcard, and sure enough, last night I had set the output sampling rate to 192 khz, and the amp couldn't recieve the signal, toned it down to any of the other 3 options, (set it to the next best, 96khz)

But now I can't seem to get the surround set-up, I'm trying to set the music enhancer to 5 channel, but when I push the 'straight effect' button now it says not available...

Any ideas?

 

[Skizzarz]

So, at 44.1 and 48 Khz I can change the audio effects, but the reciever says PCM which from what the yamaha support rep I talked to says, it's only receiving a 2 channel signal, and I should be look for dolby digital surround on the reciever.

So now to look into if this Realtek HD audio card can output Dolby digital surround...

I may have this working some day.

 

[MDS]

Good catch on the sampling rate.

The sound card has to be set to enable digital output (which you must have on already) but there may be an additionl option for DD pass through. If you are only getting 2 channel PCM to the receiver then the sound card is decoding and downmixing the DD.

 

[Skizzarz]

thanks MDS, that's what I've determined as well, and I've been trying to figure out how to get a dolby digital surround signal from it, and called HP to find more info on the soundcard, and the support rep I got was very knowledgeable and quickly set-up what I was looking to do in a lab at his center, and said it worked fine. Most likely the signal being output is only 2-channel PCM.

The only weird thing is in my haste last night, I tried hooking the sound up with 3.5 mm stereo jacks to left and right component plugs to the multi channel input on the back of the reciever... set the reciever to multi ch input, and STILL no surround.

What the fizzly-pop!?!?!?!

I guess that means the soundcard/computer MUST only be outputting a 2 channel signal, and there is nothing going to the surround left and right, but now that I think of it, the center channel did work... I don't have a sub in the picture yet... but left right and center are working, no surround left and right...

HELP!

(in all seriousness, thanks alot for your input so far)

 

[newaudiofile]

Its funny I'm in the same boat as you are. I also get the signal format as 2-channel PCM. I want some surround sound. I read somewhere that in the dvd player software settings there are places where you can have to choose to activate surround 5.1 sound and for PowerDVD that option is only available after version 5 or so.

So you could try that and we could see. I'm not at home at the moment so I cant check it. Try it and report back

 

[bandphan]

From my understanding most sound cards need to be told what the funtion of the output is. Being that, manufactures are limited to space of card slot so input/outputs have dual functions some times, which need to be configured. Higher end soundcards will have a breakaway cable with numerous connections, ie m-audio ( http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.family&ID=PCIinterfaces)

 

[newaudiofile]

I have found this site helpfull and you should try it.

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t227831-ac3-dolby-pc-question.html
The last post on the tread did it.

I have my own thread going on here about this topic.

I still get the PCM displaying on my receiver but I get a good surround sound. As to if that is the sound should sound like I'm not sure yet.

 

[Jasonoff]

Hey there. Found this thread doing some searching so I thought I'd give my input.

I have an HTR-6030 and it seems 24bit - 96Khz is as much as it can handle for continious playback.

For my PC setup I am using an Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 sound wit the optical connection into the CD input on the receiver. It's capable of 24bit 192K but it can't process quick enough for continious play.

Hope this helps.