JT! Wrote:Well they work fine on the PC now, but don't on the TV so I'm not sure how you got to that conclusion. I re-read what I typed just to make sure I didn't slip up on anything. The only thing I can add to clear a possible misunderstanding is that when I had the speakers at the TV and plugged into the TV the loud hum was an issue when viewing the PC, over the air channels and the ps3.
If the speakers work fine with one input and not another than the issue clearly lies with the input (or cabling). If the speakers always have problems with any input then the problem is with the speakers. It's that simple.
JT! Wrote:Audio quality is all about the digital to analogue conversion.
No.
Everything from that point on effects audio quality. That includes things like amplification and actual playback on the speakers. DAC (digital to analog converter) is just one of many components in the chain that effect the quality of the end result. You are correct to assume however that entirely digital devices have no impact on the audio quality. At least in terms of SNR (signal to noise ratio, the clarity of the audio). Once it's converted to analog however everything that the signal touches from that point on effects its SNR, including the converter itself.
JT! Wrote:Fiber optic output a device is digital.
Yes.
JT! Wrote:So you send the digital signal to the soundcard so it uses it's DAC and then sends the analogue signal out?
Yes you could do that. Although you originally suggested spdif passthrough, which is not the same thing.
JT! Wrote:Meaning you would be using the pc's soundcard rather than the devices? (More of a hypothetical question as opposed to something I'd actually do).
Depending on the sound card some of them in theory might be able to do that yes.
It would be a pain in the ass to turn your PC on and configure it for this every time you wanted to use your ps3 though. And set your tvs video input to the ps3 since you would have video coming from both the ps3 and pc at the same time. But yes it could work as long as you set your ps3 to output only lpcm. You would lose any surround sound though by doing so.
JT! Wrote:Is there any graphics benchmark thing I can run to decipher if it's a software issue or an issue with the GPU/drivers?
No. That wouldn't work. If for example you ran a benchmark and got poor results that still wouldn't tell you jack shit about whether the drivers or hardware were causing the poor results.
And since the benchmark is a completely different application it wouldn't be applicable to that video player at all. A bug could easily exist in the video player that degrades performance that isn't in the benchmark for example.
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