FOAK: weird Windows DVD playback problem

How does that work then?

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

That's utterly retarded.

Of course, you can get really good quality upscaling DVD players for
less than £40, so I can't say I have much sympathy.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

<hoping that Simian sees this>

Right, it turns out that the mobo frigs 6 channel output out of the
line in, line out and mic connectors - front two speakers come from
line out, rear two from line in, and centre and subwoofer from mic
(like this http://www.asrock.com/support/faq/20080324.jpg)

Anyway, with the appropriate combinition of 3.5" splitters, I managed
to plug it all into my Sony AV amp, which supports 5.1 input, and it
works!

So, my question is (and, please, any other AV heads feel free to join
in), is this in any way worse than digital output using S/PDIF?

 

I've just retired the DVD player from the living room, but it could be
pressed back into service

If you recall, my mobo has a S/PDIF header, but no backpanel
connector. I was looking at getting a doohickey to sort this
(http://www.glowtechnology.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=72) but
then found that the mobo enables 5.1 output thru the existing
connectors, and wondered whether the doohickey was worth getting.

 

ok, ta.

On closer examination, the S/PDIF header bracket that Glow sell,
listed as an ASUS accessory (tho I can't find any reference to it on
the ASUS site) uses a 3 pin connector, while my Foxconn board has a 4
pin header. Google fails to turn up any such S/PDIF header bracket
using a 4 pin connector. Grrrrrr.

 

IS,INRIP

 

What?

 

"I'm sorry, I'm not really into Pokemon"

These memes are hard to get going, aren't they?

 

It's a A7GMX-K, like this:
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_overview.aspx?ID=en-us0000382

The mobo manual [1] describes the header thus:
pin 1 : +5v
pin 2 : empty
pin 3 : SPDIF_OUT
pin 4 : GND

Thanks in advance

[1] available here:
http://www.foxconnchannel.com/support/downloads_detail.aspx?ID=en-us0001760

 

Why didn't you just say so?!

heh. I would appear so.

 

Belay that - much googling suggests that the bracket sold by glow,
despite being advertised as having a '3-pin connector', is in fact 3
pins in a 4 pin plug (described as 4-1, I think), which should fit my
mobo header ok.

We'll see.

 

And now, hopefully, we can put this thread to rest

The bracket arrived from Glow this morning [1], it was a matter of 10
mins to fit it, a quick bit of software config and it was happily
putting out 24bit at 96KHZ (according to the friendly screen on my AV
amp).

So now it nicely puts out stereo for stereo files (e.g. MP3s), and
full digital for DVDs, which the AV amp happily decodes.

<sigh>

I think I might be finished. All coming to a web page near you
soon...

[1] this one for those struggling to keep up
http://www.glowtechnology.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=72