Getting lossless HD-audio(5.1analoge) out on HTPC

[spirovious]

Now those who are using Laptop as source can get 7.1 analog out(if needed)-
HDMI LPCM Dolby Digital To Multi-Channel/Optical Audio Decoder With Amplifier

This can be considered as HDMI sound card too.

 

[spirovious]

You need EAC3to,Madflace,HdBrStreamExtractor,MKVmerge,MPCHC,Reclock,
arcsoft TMT(for DTS-HD decoding).

So tried these & ripped succecfully.

Now you can download ArcSoft DTS Decoder 1.1.0.8 here without need to install TMT-
ArcSoft DTS Decoder 1.1.0.8.rar download - 2shared

After you do that,there are few steps more to work-

Open up C:\Windows\win.ini. and add-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ArcSoft\MPEG Codec\Decoder Setting\]
AudioOutputMode=17
AudioDynamicRange=0

Change the audio output mode number to match your speaker config.
for Stereo - 0,1,2,5
5.1 Channels - 6,13
7.1 Channels - 17
S/PDIF out - 16


Check if DTSMA is being decoded by MPCHC correctly using reclocker,else-
Open mpc-hc.exe in a hex editor (HxD) and replace the hex string

"33806DE046DBCF11B4D100805F6CBBEA" with "578F49F699B3434AA6FAF694AD42B9BE" in the file and save.

After doing this, the 7.1ch 24bit data will be exactly decoded.
Rest of the setting on MPCHC will be similar.Choose Arc soft as decoder in MPC external filters.Reclock will tell you if the data is perfect (24bit) or down sampled.