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dahuman on 16 March 2010
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nordlead said:
Solid said:

If you use some sort of converters from DVI to HDMI or something like that, you can't have audio for those that didnt work. For 7.1 on HDMI I really don't know but I wouldnt be suprised if it was only a driver setting :P

 

EDIT: Why dont you plug your speakers directly in your PC if you have a 7.1 capable sound card?

I have a passive speakers system, so it has to plug into the A/V system. I can plug all 8 channels from my PC to my receiver, but that is just a ton of wires to deal with. Since it won't work over HDMI, S/PDIF is good enough.

@dahuman

HD content seems to be fine (online HD content is the only stuff I've run through it yet though), and I've read a lot of other people say they have no problem with that chipset. Also, I was reading some system requirements (WMP HD requirements) and my PC seems more than powerful enough. Oddly enough, the windows "scoring" system says my 4200 is better than the NVidia discrete card in my older PC and that handles HD content fine. However, I'll try out CoreAVC if I start to see artifacts.

You prolly won't notice it for the most part, I just do because I do a lot of video stuff so I'm sensitive to artifacts or things that are not sharp or things that have pixelated shit which just annoys the shit out of me lol. Nvidia also only had partial DxVA until they got into the 9 series whereas ATI has had full acceleration since the late 3000 series so that's probably why you see a difference with ATI vs older Nvidia. I have had ATI as my main cards for years now because of the multimedia aspects of it and just use a nvidia card for nothing but physx lol.