DVD-Audio on M10000 does not work?

ayclens · 07-15-2004, 10:52 AM

I just bought the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (PCI) for my M10000 mobo. I installed it, and no problems EXCEPT when I attempt to play DVD-Audio discs, there is a constant "clicking" sound! When I search Sound Blaster's website for help, it says that clicking sounds when attempting to play DVD-A discs is due to the system being too slow. The minimum system requirements for DVD-A on the Sound Blaster card is 800MHz P3 or 1GHz Athalon. The M10000 is 1GHz...

Any ideas on getting the system to free up some resources or something so that DVD-A will play without these "clicks"? Has anyone successfully played DVD-A discs with an M10000 mobo?

brandon · 07-15-2004, 12:25 PM

Not only is your m10000 a 1GHz cpu but it also has MPEG-2 Acceleration for DVD playback.
I've never dealt with a USB soundcard though, only thing I would suggest is try plugging it into a differant USB port, maybe there is a power interferance in the one you are using?? dunno, possibly.

Tuanies · 07-15-2004, 04:37 PM

The M10000 migh be 1 GHz but it doesn't even remotely match a P3 800 Mhz in performance. The power of the CPU is roughly equivelent to a 466 MHz Celeron, the floating point on the M10000 blows.

veetid · 07-15-2004, 04:56 PM

I disagree... I ran benchmarks on multiple things and compared my M10000 with my PIII 800mhz and the speeds where very comparable... Actually DVD and video playback, if you use the hardware decoder, was a lot better on my M10000...

ayclens · 07-16-2004, 01:14 AM

The Sound Blaster Audigy card I bought is PCI, not USB.

Any recommendations for freeing up resources on my system or something so that DVD-A will play without error?

starfox · 07-16-2004, 07:13 AM

You might have to wait for Via to implement some sort of DVD-Audio acceleration.
Via's CPUs will only benchmark and perform well in things that they have been optimised for. The CPU has low power consumption for a reason! The CPU is really simple and most complex instructions are performed in microcode.

Via's made up for this by providing hardware acceleration for Mpeg-2, which'll help with playing back DVD-Video. This won't help with DVD-Audio though, it's a different standard.

frodobaggins · 07-16-2004, 07:18 AM

You just aren't going to get it on that motherboard. Too much floating point math.

ayclens · 07-16-2004, 10:03 AM

Too much floating point math? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

frodobaggins · 07-16-2004, 12:51 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Jackboot

Too much floating point math? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Sorry, the processor just wasn't made for that kind of thing.
Maybe you can find a sound card that will do the decoding
for you.

veetid · 07-16-2004, 01:45 PM

I haven't ever had problems with DVD audio when using the onboard soundcard or my usb soundcard... I have played most of my DVD's in my car also... Is this something that happens when you use a PCI soundcard? I almost put one of my PCI cards in my M10000.. Glad I didn't..

IntellaWorks · 07-16-2004, 04:07 PM

Do you think its actually the the soundcard making the clicking noise, What kind of BUS is your DVD drive connected ?? if IDE then, is it the newer IDE's with sound cable already built in if so (maybe add the older audio cable to the onboard sound as well) is the drive an External USB or firewaire drive, if so is the USB cable near any power lines in your car ?

Is your master volume on the PC turned up to high ?

I read your problem quickly, and I'm just throwing out other suggestions because I know that the M10000 was made with DVD playback in mind.

IntellaWorks · 07-16-2004, 04:13 PM

This is taken directly from EPIA web site about the M Series mainboard.

The EPIA M-Series' VIA Apollo CLE266 chipset features an embedded MPEG-2 Accelerator for silky smooth DVD playback, and integrated 2D/3D graphics for a rich multimedia experience. With the sizable memory bandwidth of DDR266 SDRAM and the high data transfer speeds of ATA/133, the EPIA M-Series ensures the high performance levels required of today's most popular digital media applications. The user's digital media experience is further enhanced by support for 5.1 surround sound, courtesy of the onboard VIA VT1616 6 Channel AC'97 codec.

ayclens · 07-16-2004, 11:52 PM

IntellaWorks: Thank you for your thoughtful replies. To be more clear, I do not have a problem playing back DVD movies and DVD movie audio. The problem occurs when trying to play back DVD-A (DVD Audio) discs. 24 bit 192 KHz stereo sound. The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS has support for DVD-A (most other cards do not).

You may be on to something regarding the DVD drive connection. It is an IDE connection. HOWEVER - it came with a 2-pin digital audio cable. I see my soundcard has a 2-pin connection that I can connect the cable to - but my DVD (slimline) does not! Why is this? Again, it is a 2-pin digital audio cable - not the older 4-pin analogue audio cable. Why doesn't my DVD drive seem to have a 2-pin digital audio connection? Is this built into the IDE connection?

Perhaps if I could hook up the digital audio connection cable my problem would be solved?

frodobaggins · 07-17-2004, 01:37 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Jackboot

Perhaps if I could hook up the digital audio connection cable my problem would be solved?

Don't quote me on this, but I don't think it will work.

Tuanies · 07-17-2004, 02:20 AM

DVD Audio has to be outputed in Analog only because of digital rights management.

The C3 just can't keep up. The only reason it can chug along for DVD playback is because of the hardware acceleration.

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