ASUS XONAR HDAV 1.3 User Manual

Xonar HDAV1.3 DVD/Blu-ray Disc Playback
User Guide

Version: V.0.90
Date: 2008/9/15

This document is to describe the critical software setup steps about
TotalMedia Theatre software player and Xonar driver to properly
playback Blu-ray/DVD movie disc on XP and Vista. It’s highly
recommended to read the information before you start playing
Blu-ray/DVD disc with Xonar HDAV1.3 card.

Background Information

T otalMedia Theatre (TMT) player re quires the following system equipments for DVD
and Blu-ray disc playback:

For TotalMedia Theatre with DVD playback:

1. Windows XP 32 SP2/Vista 32/64

2. Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, or equivalent; AMD Athlon 64 or equivalent

3. 24 MB free hard disk space

4. 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)

5. DVD-ROM drive

6. 16-bit color display at 800x600

7. DirectX 9.0c

For TotalMedia Theatre with Blu-ray playback:

1. Windows XP 32 SP2/Vista 32/64

2. Intel Pentium EE 3.2 GHz, Intel Core Duo, or equivalent; AMD Athlon 64 or equivalent

3. 120 MB free hard disk space

4. 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)

5. Blu-ray or HD DVD drive

6. NVIDIA GeForce 8400 and above, or AMD(ATI) HD2400 and above.
Notes: AMD(ATI) graphic cards are only supported on Windows Vista 32 at this time. Please contact AMD

for updated drivers.

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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 Channels modes, TMT will decode the compressed audio in
Blu-ray/DVD disc and output LPCM data

-In S/PDIF mode, TMT will pass through traditional Dolby Digital or DTS 5.1
bit-stream in principle (except LPCM in Dolby TrueHD soundtrack)

-In HDMI mode, TMT will pass through HBR audio bit-stream from Blu-ray disc in
principle or Dolby Digital/DTS 5.1 from DVD

Windows XP 32

(Current TotalMedia Theatre player only supports Windows XP x32. x64 XP version
will be supported in the near future.)

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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 ÎSetupÎAudio tag

3. Select “HDMI” in Audio Output Mode (TMT will output HBR audio bit-stream)

4. Uncheck “Enable down mixing (192KHz)” and “Enable audio mixer” items

5. Press “Apply” first, then press OK. Then start playback.
(Note: Dolby T rueHD bit -stream pass-through will be supported by an updated TMT
player later.)

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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 HDAV Center audio page

2. Select “7.1 Speakers” in Analog Out

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3. Open TotalMedia TheatreÎSetupÎAudio

4. 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)

5. Uncheck “Enable down mixing (192KHz)” item (Enable audio mixer should be

checked only when you are going to do PIP functi on to mix primary and secondary
audio streams)

6. Press “Apply” first, then press OK. Then start playback.

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6.Select correspondent Sample Rate in Xonar AV Center consistent with the playing

disc audio format displayed in TMT screen (right-click mouse to turn on
“information” function) for the highest fidelity playback.

(Note: In sound card mode, S/PDIF will be automatically muted and will not output

LPCM data while playing HBR audio for compliance with AACS audio protection
rules.)

For example:
The disc audio format is 192KHz/24bit LPCM as the picture below.

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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

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