Originally Posted By: pca
When it was fed up the HDMI cable and back out of the TV into the receiver via optical, the center channel disappeared. Connecting the optical out from the foxconn box directly to the receiver fixed it. I suspect it's more a problem with the TV than the PC

Pretty likely. I know my own TV's manual warns that audio fed through it reappears as 2-ch stereo on the optical output. I prefer to just feed the optical out from the Atom/Ion2 straight into the 5.1 surround system. Probably less audio delay to compensate for that way, too.

Today I wasted several hours debugging why my MythTV playback was suddenly jerky again with several high-bitrate files.. only to narrow it down to a TV bug of some kind.

I discovered that I can restore smooth playback mid-stream again by turning off the TV's 120Hz mode and then turning it (120Hz) back on again.

Now I just need to write that down somewhere so I'll remember the recipe for next time it (jerky playback) happens.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (29/01/2011 19:38)