ac3 & xp

[prankster]

Are you people having troubles with Intervideo's audio filters on WinXP? Personally I'm disappointed, because everything worked fine on w98se, I had 4 channels from my avis+ac3 (few home-made movies to this day), and now all I can do is to play surround (2spk). I tried every method I did with 98se, and still nothing. Even windvd3 itself played original Phantom Menace with 4 speakers, but 2 channels (only surround again). Registry entries modifiers from doom9 didn't work.
What's the most interesting - PowerdvdXP works! 4 separate channels and all... but unfortunately for avis there are only 2 kinds of audio playing - stereo and surround :( At least dvds are as they should be. Any chance of messing with registry to force CyberLink's audio filters to work with avis? Or maybe some tweak to get Intervideos' filters running on 4 separate channels? I'm stuck. Help! Please!

[Nobbs]

i have the same prob under xp with PowerDVD. original dvds have the perfect 5.1 sound and the standalone ac3-files too, but when i play divx with ac3 i get no 5.1 sound :(

[MaTTeR]

Look at my sig:D It might help you...as we have been down this road so many times for the past few months.

[DagMan]

@ Nobbs

you must activate Dolby Pro Logic II in the PowerDVD Options
under Options/Audio/Dolby Pro Logic II click enable and select
one of the two options and then you have AC3 Sound.
(but this is only for PowerDVD 4.0 XP)

cu
DagMan

[prankster]

Now this is crazy. All I had to do to correctly (means 4 separate channels, no Dolby Surround) play my 30 avis with ac3 sound under XP, was to change properties in intervideo's filter from waveout to default directsound device. It works like it used to on 98se with waveout turned on. I don't really know why is it so, but I'll take it as it is :)
However, I still can't find a way to force cyberlink audio filters (with graphedit) to play something more than DSurround. I find their filter to be better than iviaudio.ax when playing DVDs, but I can't turn on more than 2 speakers with graphedit.
I've seen many posts on DTS encoding. Let's say I did it (imagination), but is there a way to add DTS audio track to an avi file? Don't think so, but maybe You people have some news on the subject?