Dolby Digital Live Hickups and Distortion

[Synergi]

Hello guys,

 

I understood after quite some research, how to get, real dolby digital sound. The clue, is to have a sound card supporting ddl, streaming sound to it, via a supperted device, mostly directly via usb and then output this signal to a ddl supporting device via the supported input.

 

So i achieved this with the following:

 

SoundBlaster X-FI Sourrund 5.1

Astro A50 / Logitech z906

 

SoundBlaster is connected via USB to PC and then with SPDIF Toslink to Astro A50.

 

So DDL is now working perfect.

 

But i have 2 minor issues which are a bit annoying to me.

 

Sometimes the sound transimition shortly stops, I would call it a hickup. It's just a small interruption of the signal transmition (~0,5s).

The secound problem is, as long as no software directly hook ups the sound card, I have some weird distoration sounds (mostly weird click sounds)

 

As a side note, the USB cable and SPDIF Toslink cable, are both high quality cables, and the USB & Toslink cable are both 0,5m long.

 

So is this a normal behavior of DDL? Is this a buffer overflow or sth else? Is it because of the very old SoundBlaster Sound Card? 

 

I also have an Asus Xonar U7, but i don't use it, because the SPDIF out is Coxial and I would need an converter plugged in between astro headset and soundcard.

 

Are there any solutions for me? 

 

tia Synergi

[Stagea]

How's your CPU utilization? Does it happen on all applications? Increasing the priority of creative's processes helps sometimes. Giving another USB port a try may also be worth it.

 

Creative's drivers are pretty bad in my experience (I used dts connect / dolby digital live before). It works great on certain setups and doesn't on others. I hope you can get it running solid.