Nico Morgan
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First of all, apologies if this is the wrong forum, it could have fitted in several.
I have a simple system based around my PC. I watch video on a second monitor attached to the PC but also listen to music through the same system.
My PC has on-board sound with three output jacks. It also has a GPU and my audio store advised me to connect the receiver to the PC from an HDMI port on the GPU, so that is how it is configured.
This means that Windows sees the receiver as a monitor but I can live with this.
Video works just fine. I get proper 5.1 sound which is fine for my purposes. One day I will have a proper man cave but not just yet.
The problems come when I listen to audio. Because the input to the receiver is HDMI it thinks everything is Video and doesn't give me access to the Surround Decode options in the receiver which I would like to use to enable Dolby Pro Logic when listening to 2 channel music, and use the theater speakers to make it sound more 3D.
To confuse things even more, if I stream music from my phone to a Chromecast in another of the receiver's HDMI ports it does register that this is sound and give me the DPL options.
So, it seems to be the GPU connection which tells the receiver it is getting video. Any ideas on how to avoid this?
I have a simple system based around my PC. I watch video on a second monitor attached to the PC but also listen to music through the same system.
My PC has on-board sound with three output jacks. It also has a GPU and my audio store advised me to connect the receiver to the PC from an HDMI port on the GPU, so that is how it is configured.
This means that Windows sees the receiver as a monitor but I can live with this.
Video works just fine. I get proper 5.1 sound which is fine for my purposes. One day I will have a proper man cave but not just yet.
The problems come when I listen to audio. Because the input to the receiver is HDMI it thinks everything is Video and doesn't give me access to the Surround Decode options in the receiver which I would like to use to enable Dolby Pro Logic when listening to 2 channel music, and use the theater speakers to make it sound more 3D.
To confuse things even more, if I stream music from my phone to a Chromecast in another of the receiver's HDMI ports it does register that this is sound and give me the DPL options.
So, it seems to be the GPU connection which tells the receiver it is getting video. Any ideas on how to avoid this?