DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post

**velichay** · 12-20-2011, 10:43 PM

If you set the audio to bitstream, yes.

Otherwise, you can have the PS3 handle the decoding and even get Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA via LPCM.

Hmmm...I think weve had this discussion before, but I was still confused afterwards.

Heres what I have- PS3>>>HDMI>>>reciever listed in OP>>>HDMI>>>Samsung HDTV

Audio settings on PS3-HDMI-Automatic- Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS, PCM 2 channel-44.1,48,96 and another one, I forget.

This results in games, dvds and blurays outpuing dolby/dts to my reciever and it works beautifully, for 2 channel stuff I use prologic or CSTEK to simulate surround. However, for video files that have AC3/AAC etc, it acts as if it isnt recieving any sort of digital audio stream, just generic 2 channel. But, ive been reading that AC3 should come up as Dolby Digital stream, the same way that DVDs/games/blurays do etc.

If i tell the ps3 to use PCM 5.1 channel-44.1,48 etc my games, dvds and blurays have messed up sound, i.e. sometimes you can hear the surround channels but no the center, sometimes no sound at all. Also, I have the ps3 selected to use both 2 channel PCM and 5.1 channel PCM, it ALWAYS no matter what outputs 2 channel, I have to manually remove 2 channel pcm and then it will use 5.1 channel pcm. how frustrating.

Any help/advice?

EDIT:

Re-reading your post, can you explain what you meant, about having bitstream selected or the other option to have the ps3 handle the decoding?

12-20-2011, 10:43 PM	#3
velichay Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 431 Senior Member	If you set the audio to bitstream, yes. Otherwise, you can have the PS3 handle the decoding and even get Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA via LPCM. Hmmm...I think weve had this discussion before, but I was still confused afterwards. Heres what I have- PS3>>>HDMI>>>reciever listed in OP>>>HDMI>>>Samsung HDTV Audio settings on PS3-HDMI-Automatic- Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS, PCM 2 channel-44.1,48,96 and another one, I forget. This results in games, dvds and blurays outpuing dolby/dts to my reciever and it works beautifully, for 2 channel stuff I use prologic or CSTEK to simulate surround. However, for video files that have AC3/AAC etc, it acts as if it isnt recieving any sort of digital audio stream, just generic 2 channel. But, ive been reading that AC3 should come up as Dolby Digital stream, the same way that DVDs/games/blurays do etc. If i tell the ps3 to use PCM 5.1 channel-44.1,48 etc my games, dvds and blurays have messed up sound, i.e. sometimes you can hear the surround channels but no the center, sometimes no sound at all. Also, I have the ps3 selected to use both 2 channel PCM and 5.1 channel PCM, it ALWAYS no matter what outputs 2 channel, I have to manually remove 2 channel pcm and then it will use 5.1 channel pcm. how frustrating. Any help/advice? EDIT: Re-reading your post, can you explain what you meant, about having bitstream selected or the other option to have the ps3 handle the decoding?
	Quote