I don't mean this in a snobbish way, but I think he outlined the purpose quite well in his introduction to the guide.  I can attest to the trials and tribulations associated with trying to get the right filters to playback all your files and then adjusting the merits so that the filter you WANT to be used actually does get used.

This is meant to stablilize an HTPC for reliable playback, with a focus on SageTV.  That doesn't mean this won't work for non-SageTV users, however; quite the contrary.  So, will this improve your playback quality?  Possibly.  If you're having jitter issues, jaggies, audio dropouts or stuttering, then this may help.  When I move to Windows 7 on my client PC, I definitely intend to turn to this rather than installing any other codecs or codec packs.

Slightly OT but what decoders have you found that work the best with the G45?

I use arcsoft 2 because arcsoft 3 did not play well with MyMovies. something do do with it not accepting command line parameters to play content from a folder. Which really sucks because I paid for 3 to have W7 compatability. Was to the 1096 update for 2 or 3?

OK, I'm obviously dense.  I've got a G45 board with HDMI output.  I would like to pass-through PCM, AC3 and DTS and have TMT3 decode the HD audio types to LPCM.  None of the settings I see here relate to HDMI as far as I can see.  Is there a way to accomplish my goal or do I have to decode and pass LPCM for all of the formats?

FWIW, I use TMT3 for Blu-Ray playback and Zoomplayer for everything else.

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Wow, quick reply!

I figured it out.  I hadn't selected "Use SPDIF" under the AC3Filter settings since I wasn't using S/PDIF, but turning that on seems to have worked.

BTW, switching to AntiPack also solved a stuttering problem I've been experiencing ever since I switched to W7RC, I'm guessing it was caused by FFDShow.

Thanks!
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There's a known issue with MKV playback on build 7100.  I haven't seen any problems with RTM, but I'm still playing around with it before putting it on my main box.

By def, bitstreamed audio can't be downsampled so something weird is going on.  I doubt that it's the drivers, I have a DG45ID and it works really well.

what's your speaker setup in the sound settings (control panel)?  have you tried reclock with wasapi?  it will bypass those settings and can do direct mapping.  Did you configure SPDIF pass through exactly as noted in the antipack walk through?

I use the HDMI, never tried SPDIF on the DG45ID (which uses IDT audio drivers).

Try rendering the file in graphstudio with ac3filter set to spdif mode, then add the output you want explicitly instead of the default dsound renderer.

Another thing to check in the audio control panel is that DD Live is not enabled.