DD-Receiver

Introduction

If you want to use ac3 (Dolby Digital) with VDR, you have these 3 possibilities:

• Ac3overdvb-patch (NOTE: only vdr < 1.3.17)
• bitstreamout-plugin
• a special DVB card firmware which supports direct output of ac3 with VDR > 1.3.17

The AC3overDVB-Patch for VDR allows the use of AC3, also known as Dolby Digital, via the digital S/PDIF output of an FF-DVB-card. Both, electrical and optical outputs, are using the same protocol and have therefore exactly the same sound quality. But the optical output allows electrical separation between your computer and ac3 Receiver. Therefore you can avoid grounding problems and disturbances in video and analog audio channels. If you have both possibilities prefer the optical Toslink. For output of digital audio VDR uses the AV7111 chips on the dvb card. This chip can only deal with PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) data, therefore encapsulated ac3has to be used. Mostly, but not all, DD Receivers can handle this data format. This list tells you wether a particular DD receiver can handle this or not.

The same restriction is valid if you use the special firmware for DVB card.

List of AC3overDVB compatible/not compatible Dolby Digital Receivers

(the list is partly from http://www.muempf.de/down/DD-receiver-status.txt )

Hint

THIS LIST IS WITHOUT ANY WARRENTY, BECAUSE COLLECTED FROM VDR USERS! This list lives from user data, so PLEASE add and share your experiencies.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Vendor and Device Name	Status PCM {ok, Error}	Status DD/DTS {auto/manually/Error}
Acoustic Energy Aego P5	ok
Arcam Diva AVR250	ok
Bose Lifestyle 8 Series II	ok
Cambridge SoundWorks DTT-2500	Error
Cambridge SoundWorks DTT-3500	Error
CAT CS-907	ok
Centrum Titan 500	ok
Creative 5700 Inspire	ok
Creative Labs DDTS-100	ok
Cyrus AV-5	ok
DENON AVC-A1	Error
DENON AVC-A1D	ok
DENON AVC-A1SE	ok
DENON AVR-1501	ok
DENON AVR-1600	ok
DENON AVR-1602	ok
DENON AVR-1603	ok	auto
DENON AVR-1604	ok
DENON AVR-1705	ok
DENON AVR-1801	ok	auto
DENON AVR-1802	ok
DENON AVR-1803	ok
DENON AVR-1804	ok	auto
DENON AVR-2105	ok
DENON AVR-2802	ok
DENON AVR-2803	ok
DENON AVR-2805	ok
DENON AVR-3801	ok
DENON AVR-3802	ok
DK-Digital AS-90-1	ok
Grundig DR 3400 DD	Error
Harman/Kardon AVR 2000	ok
Harman/Kardon AVR 2500	ok
Harman/Kardon AVR 3000	ok
Harman/Kardon AVR 300RDS	ok
Harman/Kardon AVR 330	ok
Harman/Kardon AVR 45RDS	ok
Harman/Kardon AVR 35RDS	ok
Harman/Kardon AVR 507	ok
Harman/Kardon AVR 5550	ok
Harman/Kardon AVR 7000	ok
Hercules Thrustmaster 5.1	Error
JVC RX-6010R	ok
Kenwood KRF-V4070D	ok
Kenwood KRF-V4530D	Error
Kenwood KRF-V5030D	Error
Kenwood KRF-V5050D	ok	manually
Kenwood KRF-V6030D	Error
Kenwood KRF-V6070D	ok
Kenwood KRF-V7030D	Error
Kenwood KRF-V7050D	Error
Kenwood KRF-V7060D	ok
Kenwood KRF-7773D	ok
Kenwood KRF-V8060D	ok
Kenwood KRF-V8070D	ok
Kenwood KRF-V9060D	ok
Kenwood KRF-X9070D	ok
Lexicon MC-8	ok
Lexicon MB-12	ok
Logitech Z-680	ok
Marantz SR4400	ok
Marantz SR4500	ok	auto
Marantz SR5200	ok
Marantz SR5300	ok
Marantz SR5400	ok
Marantz SR7200	ok
Marantz SR7300	ok	auto
NAD T-752	ok
Onkyo DR-90	ok
Onkyo DS-575	ok
Onkyo TX-DS-575X	ok
Onkyo TX-DS-676	ok
Onkyo TX-SR501E	ok
Onkyo TX-SR600E	ok
Onkyo TX-SR601E	ok
Onkyo TX-SR703E	ok	auto
Panasonic SA HE 70	ok
Panasonic SA-HE 75	ok
Panasonic SA-HE 90	ok
Panasonic SA-HE 200	ok
Panasonic SA-XR 15 EG-S	ok
Panasonic SA-XR 30	ok
Philips FR994	ok
Philips FR996	ok
Philips LX3900SA	ok
Pioneer VSA-E07	ok
Pioneer VSX-609RDS	ok
Pioneer VSX-709RDS	ok
Pioneer VSX-C300	ok
Pioneer VSX-C301	ok
Pioneer VSX-C402	ok
Pioneer VSX-D510	ok
Pioneer VSX-D511	ok
Pioneer VSX-D514	ok
Pioneer VSX-C550	ok
Pioneer VSX-D812	ok
Pioneer VSX-915	ok
Pioneer VSX-D1014	ok	manually
Pioneer VSX-1014-K	Error
Pioneer XV-DV88	ok
Rotel RSX-965	ok
Rotel RSX-972	ok
Samsung AVR-700	ok	ok
Schneider AVR 1000	ok	manually
Sherwood R-956R	ok
Sony DAV S550	ok
Sony DAV S800	ok
Sony STR-DB780 QS	ok
Sony STR-DB790 QS	ok
Sony STR-DB795 QS	ok	manually
Sony STR-DB830 QS	Error
Sony STR-DB840 QS	ok
Sony STR-DB870 QS	ok	auto
Sony STR-DB925	ok
Sony STR-DB930	Error
Sony STR-DB940	ok	DD-error DTS-ok
Sony STR-DB1070 QS	ok
Sony STR-DB1080 QS	ok
Sony STR-DE445	ok
Sony STR-DE485E	ok
Sony STR-DE585	ok
Sony STR-DE635	Error
Sony STR DE675	ok
Sony STR DE685	ok
Sony STR-DE875	ok	auto
Sony STR-LV500	ok	Error
Sony STR-SL5	ok
Sunfire Theatre Grand Processor II	ok
Tag McLaren AV-30R	ok
Tag McLaren AV-32R-BP-192	ok
Tag McLaren AV-192R	ok
Teac Powermax 2000	ok
Technics SA-DA 8	ok
Technics SA-DX 750	ok	auto
Technics SA-DX 930	ok
Technics SA-DX 950	ok
VideoLogic DigiTheater 5.1	Error
Yamaha DDP-2	ok
Yamaha DSP-AX620	Error
Yamaha DSP-A1	Error
Yamaha DSP-A2	Error
Yamaha DSP-A5	ok
Yamaha DSP-A595	ok
Yamaha DSP-AX1	ok
Yamaha DSP-AX2	ok
Yamaha DSP-E800	ok
Yamaha RX-V1300RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V1500RDS	ok	auto
Yamaha RX-V2095RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V3000	ok
Yamaha RX-V396RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V420RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V430RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V440RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V450RDS	ok	auto
Yamaha RX-V520RDS	ok	manually
Yamaha RX-V530RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V540RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V550RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V596RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V620RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V630RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V640RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V650	ok
Yamaha RX-V730RDS	ok
Yamaha RX-V750	ok
Yamaha TSS-1	ok
Yamaha RX-V757 RDS	ok