That's the wisest thing anyone's said around here today!As I've said I don't think it's the software because I've turned off all the audio and video processing things therein, but you never know.
Any suggestions?
try kodi
59 Hz, 60 Hz, 120 Hz, doesn't go away.
AFAIK the audio and video streams are separate files anyway.The issue is one of handshake between the AVR and HTPC, so I want to output undecoded audio to the HTPC and let that do the decoding.
VLC is free and you can set it to bitstream audio, that should allow you to check where the issue is.
so what avr do you have and what audio files are you trying to decode?
As per my own previous suggestion //static.avforums.com/styles/avf/smilies/facepalm.gif said before try Kodi or vlc player.
If you are outputting at 60hz or a variation above that you are processing the file
The only video connections for the bandwidth for are DisplayPort 1.2 and above and HDMI 2.1
The latter is widespread among graphics cards (I believe the GTX 1030 supports it) and monitors but TVs haven't adopted it, while the latter is very new and supported by only a handful of TVs and few, if any, graphics cards.
So basically either your TV can't accept a signal or if it's a brand new model that can you'll need to wait a while for either the DP to HDMI converters or HDMI 2.1 cards to become available.
I'm not a hardware expert but I'm not aware of GPUs having any audio decoders .
Had issues with powerdvd losing codecs etc when installing other software etc I gave up and use media player classic with madVR and LAV audio filter. All i can suggest before you buy another card is swap out the GT1030 card from pc working fine see if it then runs fine on the problem hcpc
does powerdvd use you gfx hardware for video decoding or it that done via the cpu?
One thing I learned the hard way was the GTX970 doesn't have hardware HEVC decoding (the 950, 960 and 980 do!)