arnprasad
Well-Known Member
Hi I need some help in setting my hardware right.
1) this I have already posted in another link..so sorry about the duplication but I believe this title will get it more views.
I have a Intel i5 laptop with HDMI out but no dedicated sound card. When I play a file that has DTS audio - I have tried playing it using GOM player, media player classic, VLC, Power DVD 11 and Windows media player - the 3D video is alright but the sound output is not DTS - do we need a dedicated sound card for this or can the software drive it?
2) This is more important for me. I got a WD 2TB hard drive which apart from being my hard drive backup also holds my ripped WII games and hence the hard drive at all time is connected to my WII by USB. Now that I have got a 3D TV - I have many ripped 3D files which are also on the hard drive. Currently I have a 16GB pen drive and I play these movies directly on my TVs USB. However its a pain adding and removing movies and hence I am wondering is there a way I can split the USB out of my hard drive using a splitter into two - so that one will go to my WII and other one will go into my TV or the philips Blu ray player? The reason being the other option is to keep on removing the USB wire from WII and putting it on the TV and Vice versa -
3) Lastly my WD 2TB HDD has this irritating habit of blinking when ever connected and it takes few seconds for the blinking to stop when data can be read from the hard drive - anyway I can eliminate this blinking and access data real time immediately on powering on?
Thanks in advance for all your help. The reason I am asking all this is because my Pioneer 1020K receiver does not have ARC and hence I am losing out on 5.1 sound in case I use my pen drive directly into the TV for movie watching:clapping::clapping::clapping:
1) this I have already posted in another link..so sorry about the duplication but I believe this title will get it more views.
I have a Intel i5 laptop with HDMI out but no dedicated sound card. When I play a file that has DTS audio - I have tried playing it using GOM player, media player classic, VLC, Power DVD 11 and Windows media player - the 3D video is alright but the sound output is not DTS - do we need a dedicated sound card for this or can the software drive it?
2) This is more important for me. I got a WD 2TB hard drive which apart from being my hard drive backup also holds my ripped WII games and hence the hard drive at all time is connected to my WII by USB. Now that I have got a 3D TV - I have many ripped 3D files which are also on the hard drive. Currently I have a 16GB pen drive and I play these movies directly on my TVs USB. However its a pain adding and removing movies and hence I am wondering is there a way I can split the USB out of my hard drive using a splitter into two - so that one will go to my WII and other one will go into my TV or the philips Blu ray player? The reason being the other option is to keep on removing the USB wire from WII and putting it on the TV and Vice versa -
3) Lastly my WD 2TB HDD has this irritating habit of blinking when ever connected and it takes few seconds for the blinking to stop when data can be read from the hard drive - anyway I can eliminate this blinking and access data real time immediately on powering on?
Thanks in advance for all your help. The reason I am asking all this is because my Pioneer 1020K receiver does not have ARC and hence I am losing out on 5.1 sound in case I use my pen drive directly into the TV for movie watching:clapping::clapping::clapping: