1. Using the Oppo 970 DVD player and a optical Toslink audio connection we have had problems keeping the surround mode at dolby digital. The Oppo is set at RAW. I have polling as off.

Playback of DVDs leads to DD+IIc,i.e. it does not stay on Dolby Digital.

On a different question--will the 970 automatically switch to DTS when it has a DTS DVD in this configruation. It does not do this form my DVE DVD test DVD-It does switch to the Dolby 2 C+ DD mode.


2. Using a squeezebox and a toslink optical connection we have problems keeping the stereo mode as a default. It switches to the DD+Dolby 2 C mode. We want it to stay in stereo.
I have polling as off.
When it is on the problem seems worse.

In both cases the surround mode seems to change on content. For DVDs this has been a real problem with the AVIA test disk. The audio comes on rather weakly and then jumps to very loud.


Is there a method other than the one detailed in tne manual to ensure surround modes stick? This does not seem to work.

We have the latest firmware and we did reset the 970 acording to the manual after downloading.

Thanks!

Joel and Tatiana

If I follow your question correctly, the 970 should switch to DTS once you have chosen that surround sound mode from the DVD menu. I believe DVDs that are encoded with both DD and DTS always default to DD on start up.

I have a Squeezebox as well and listen to it exclusively in 2-channel stereo mode. But I do that by using "bypass" mode. That may offer a simple soultion for that particular issue.

The firmware fix was aimed at the infamous "no audio" issue. Your problem seems a bit different. Maybe gonk will have some more infomration for you. He knows this stuff at the molecular level. Otherwise, you may want to call Outlaw.

Thanks for your input.

In order to use "bypass" do you have to use analogue RCA cables or are you using the the toslink optical spidf cables?

Joel