re: Soundblaster Live! XP prob
Saturday, December 13, 2003 at 2:31 pm
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Posted by Astrocyl
(1 messages posted)
I own a Sb Live! Platinum card and couldn't get ac3 from my live! drive after installing
the latest creative drivers. I downloaded the file "LIVEDRVL2030530" which you recommended
but it will give me the message "Setup could not detect any Sound blaster live! series
on your system" everytime I want to install it. What is that supposed to mean? The
card is sitting there in my computer! Any suggestion? Thanks
On Monday, November 17, 2003 at 5:00 pm, mikejmd wrote:
> After days of trying to get ac-3 s/pdif output from my soundblaster 5.1 card
>to my dolby digital receiver via a coaxial cable under windows xp (used to work
under
>win 98), I ran across a link to this file at http://alive.singnet.com.sg/drivers.
> It directed me to creative's asia website (I couldn't find it on the USA site).
> The driver patch file is LIVEDRVL2030530.exe. This driver is supposed to provide
>functionality of s/pdif passthrough when ac-3 passthrough is selected. I installed
>it after installing the sb LiveDrvUni-Pack(eng).exe.
> It worked for me, using a standard 2 black ring (stereo) miniplug to RCA coaxial
>cable adapter from the rear digital output (orange) of my sound card. Using the
>left channel (black) to connect to the RCA digital input on my Yamaha receiver.
>It also worked using an RCA coaxial cable from my Live!Drive s/pdif to the digital
>input on my receiver.
> You must install an AC-3 filter capable of s/pdif passthrough on your system
>as I believe PowerDVD and WinDVD do not do this. You can install this using the
>Kazaa Lite++ codec pack or download one from Doom9.net (such as ac3filter_0_70b.exe).
> Reboot your computer to make sure registry changes are in effect.
> Make sure your sblive speaker settings are "5.1 speaker", "digital output only",
>and "ac-3 decode" is turned off in settings.
> Under audio settings in you DVD software, set sound output to s/pdif. You should
>then be able to output undecoded ac-3 signal to be decoded by your Dolby Digital
>receiver :-). The speaker test still only plays "right channel, left" channel,
but
>who cares!
>
> To get ac-3 passthrough to your Dolby Digital receiver from Windows Media Player
>(even 9 worked for me), it was necessary to perform an extra step.
> These steps are through the courtesy of Doom9's site.
>1) Download "graphedit" (available from Doom9) and extract it to your "temp" directory
>or whatever directory you choose.
>2)Double click the "register.bat" file.
>3)Run the "graphedit.exe program.
>4)Go to the "file" menu and select "Render Media File"
>5)Choose the file you wish to render (I've done ac-3 encoded Divx avi files and
>DVD vob files). This will load a graph telling WMP how to process the media file.
>6)Go to "Graph" menu, select "Insert Filters", and under "Direct Show Filter's"
select
>"AC3 filter".
>7)Connect the input pin of this filter to the audio stream pin of the "avi (or Mpeg)
>splitter filter".
>8)Delete the "Default DirectSound Device" filter as that does not provide ac-3 s/pdif
>passthrough to your receiver.
>9)Go back to the "Graph" menu and under "Audio Renderers" insert "Default Wave Out
>Device.
>10)Connect the "out" pin from the AC3 filter to the "Audio Input pin" on the "Default
>Wave Out Device" filter. (There may be an audio rendering filter depending on the
>type of DVD software you have (Intervideo, Cyberlink, Ravisent", etc), which I deleted
>without ill-effect (I hope)).
>11)Right-click on the AC3 filter, and select filter properties. Set the speakers
>to "SPDIF".
>12)Go to "File" menu and choose "Save As Graph(.GRF). However change the file extension
>to ".avi" and save it to your hard drive. I chose ac-3.avi.
>I think you can call the file anything you want as long as when you loaded the media
>file you didn't chose "Render URL".
>13)Reboot your computer for changes to take effect.
> Check Doom9 for additional info on graphedit and ac-3 spdif passthrough.
> I take no responsibility whatsoever for anything the software or these techniques
>do to your computer or system. As always practice safe computing, and have backups
>of your system software and data files. An image of your drive is very helpful in
>case you don't like the way things turn out :-(
>
>
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