No sound through HDMI - pc crashes when attempting playback

[Megaross]

Hey guys,

Right essentially I've had my pc set up absolutely fine playing through an LG set for a while now.
I've moved it to a different set (an ancient hannspree one) and all of a sudden XBMC reverted to playing via the soundcard, well, ok, I went to switch it to HDMI, that did nothing at all.

On closer look it was set to output through the soundcard on HDMI/ Analog/ SPDIF and so I selected the AMD HDMI adapter. Disabled all the fancy AC3 kind of stuff. Upon doing so the audio stopped coming out on the soundcard but the program crashed.

I tried opening itunes, same thing, it just freezes. Any attempt to configure the HDMI on sound in the control panel throws up a "Another application is using this blah blah blah" error.

So I'm guessing this is some freaky windows 7 issue or maybe because the TV is older and installed as YT07H "Generic PnP Monitor" I'm stumped though, any idea where to go next with this thing?

[BillyGoat]

Shouldn't really make a difference about what it's detected, but if it's a really old TV the data it sends via HDMI could be causing the problem - it uses EDID to tell the source what it can playback and this might be the cause.

You don't say what card it is or how old the drivers are, but that would be my first port of call really. If they are cutting edge, roll back to a stable release. If they are stock/old drivers, then get the latest - complete with the control suite.

I think it's quite normal to disable HDMI output when you change sets - see this on a lot of my stuff. All I usually do is open sound properties, make HDMI output the default. Disconnect, reconnect and it's gravy again.

I don't think I'd disable any of the codecs or outputs.

BG

[Megaross]

6870 on this machine, latest stable drivers.

I'm thinking it might be the age, the tv is from the early days of LCD tv's and it was a cheap set back then.

I'm pushed for space at the moment being back at my folks house temporarily so I'll just have to put up with it until I have space for the big tv again I reckon.

[BillyGoat]

Could show me, we could have a fiddle?

Do a remote one evening......enjoy a challenge.

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