Asus HDAV1.3 - Xonar Slim Sound Card- Manuals

Page 2 - bit-stream in principle (except LPCM in Dolby TrueHD soundtrack)

2 7. 256 MB graphics card or above 8. HDCP compliant display for digital output (HDMI connection); TV or VGA monitor for analog output TotalMedia Theatre (TMT) player shows the following Audio Output Mode options in its Setup window and each contains different output functionality: -In Headphone~7.1...

Page 3 - HDMI

3 Scenario 1: DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, Dolby Digital Plus bit-stream pass-through to AV receiver by HDMI 1.3 connection (for Blu-ray Disc) 1. Select HDMI mode tab in Xonar HDAV Center audio page 2. Open TotalMedia Theatre player Î Setup Î Audio tag 3. Select “ HDMI ” in Aud...

Page 4 - Scenario 2: High-Bit-Rate audio decoding lossless LPCM output; Xonar HDAV Center audio page

4 Scenario 2: High-Bit-Rate audio decoding lossless LPCM output (DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, Dolby Digital Plus, & Dolby TrueHD decoding) by HDMI or Analog Out connection (for Blu-ray Disc) 1. Select HDMI mode for HDMI output or Sound Card mode for analog output in Xonar H...

Page 7 - Set the Sample Rate in Xonar as the content’s format.

7 Set the Sample Rate in Xonar as the content’s format. Scenario 3: Dolby Digital/DTS 5.1 bitstream pass-through by SPDIF/HDMI (for DVD/Blu-ray disc) 1. Open Xonar HDAV Center 2. Enable “SPDIF Out” in Sound Card mode for S/PDIF out or select HDMI mode for

Page 9 - Scenario 4: Add sound effects and use DDL/DTS Connect; Dolby Digital Live

9 Scenario 4: Add sound effects and use DDL/DTS Connect transcoding output by SPDIF/HDMI (for DVD/Blu-ray disc) 1. Open Xonar HDAV Center 2. Enable “S/PDIF Out” in Sound Card mode or select HDMI mode 3. Select “ Dolby Digital Live ” or “ DTS Interactive ” in S/PDIF Out or HDMI Out pull-down menu 4. ...

Page 10 - Scenario 5: Use Dolby Headphone virtualized 5.1 surround sounds; Open Xonar HDAV Center and select Sound Card mode page; Headphone; ” in Analog Out; Dolby Headphone; ” ON

10 8. In this mode, you are able to adjust the DVD sound volume, your multi-speaker placement and surround soundfield virtually by 7.1 Virtual Speaker Shifter. You can also add environmental reverbs or EQ effect into the movie surround sounds. In a word, you can optimize the movies’ sounds even over...

Page 12 - Scenario 6: Use Dolby Virtual Speaker virtualized 5.1 surround; Speakers

12 Scenario 6: Use Dolby Virtual Speaker virtualized 5.1 surround sounds over stereo or 2.1 speakers (for DVD/Blu-ray disc) 1. Open Xonar HDAV Center and select Sound Card mode 2. Select “ 2 Speakers ” in Analog Out 3. Check “ Dolby Virtual Speaker ” ON 4. Open TotalMedia Theatre Î Setup Î Audio 5. ...

Page 13 - Speakers; ” as the default playback audio device in Sound setting in Vista

13 Windows Vista 32/64 (HBR audio bit-stream pass-through will be supported by upgraded TMT player version in the near future) Scenario 1: High-Bit-Rate audio decoding LPCM output (DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, Dolby Digital Plus, & Dolby TrueHD decoding) by HDMI or Analog O...

Page 14 - Channels; ” in Audio Channel menu

14 2. Select HDMI mode for HDMI output or Sound Card mode for analog output in Xonar HDAV Center audio page 3.Select “ 8 Channels ” in Audio Channel menu 4.Open TotalMedia Theatre Î click Setup Î Audio

Page 15 - ” or other correspondent channel numbers with your

15 5.Select “ 7.1 Channels ” or other correspondent channel numbers with your speaker type in Audio Output Mode (TMT will output LPCM audio data after decoding) 6.Uncheck “Enable down mixing (192KHz)” item (Enable audio mixer should be checked only when you are going to do PIP function to mix primar...

Page 17 - Set “; Digital Output Device; ” as the default playback device in Sound setting in

17 1. Set “ Digital Output Device ” as the default playback device in Sound setting in Vista first 2. Open Xonar HDAV Center 3. Enable “SPDIF Out” in Sound Card mode for S/PDIF or select HDMI mode for HDMI output

Page 18 - Scenario 3: Add sound effects and use DDL/DTS Connect

18 4. Open TotalMedia Theatre Î Setup Î Audio 5. Select “ S/PDIF ” in Audio Output Mode 6. Press Apply first, then press OK. You can start playback now. Scenario 3: Add sound effects and use DDL/DTS Connect transcoding output by SPDIF/HDMI (for DVD/Blu-ray disc) 1. Set “ Speakers ” as the default pl...

Page 20 - ” in Audio Output Mode (TMT will output LPCM audio data; Scenario 4: Use Dolby Headphone virtualized 5.1 surround sounds

20 6. Select “ 7.1 Channels ” in Audio Output Mode (TMT will output LPCM audio data after decoding and Xonar will add DSP effects and tanscode it into AC3/DTS.) 7. Uncheck “Enable down mixing (192KHz)” item 8. Press Apply first, then press OK. Now you can start playback. 9. In this mode, you are abl...

Page 22 - Scenario 5: Use Dolby Virtual Speaker virtualized 5.1 surround

22 Scenario 5: Use Dolby Virtual Speaker virtualized 5.1 surround sounds over stereo or 2.1 speakers (for DVD/Blu-ray disc) 1. Set “ Speakers ” as the default playback audio device in Sound setting in Vista 2. Open Xonar HDAV Center and select Sound Card mode 3. Select “ 6 Channels ” or “ 8 Channels...