Can't get surround sound in Media Center

I have a computer set up in my living room which is mainly used for watching TV in Windows Media Center on Windows x 64 8. I've noticed for a while that it seemed that sound surround did not work and I was only get stereo sound of the by the front speakers. I run sound via HDMI to my computer in my surround receiver. The output is a motherboard Intel DH77EB using graphics Intel HD 4000.

When I go into the Windows taskbar and open the playback devices, I configured the audio HDMI 5.1 surround and the sound is output to all speakers. Before, when I would try to run the speaker via Media Center Setup, it would skip the screen where you can play a sound test and go directly to the screen resolution of the problems, as if I chose that I could not hear sound from all speakers. After crossing the speaker setup of the Windows again last night, I could finally access the test page for the configuration of your speakers in Media Center. This time, the small circle 'busy' just spun for a while, and then he asked if I heard the sound of all speakers. He never played any sound. I thought he would return to the previous settings, but when I tried to play TV, he played with no audio and then pops up an error on the codecs are not properly installed.

The only way I could get Media Center to start playing live and recorded TV is again to return the Windows sound properties and reconfigure my HDMI out be only stereo. I have temporarily lost my digital optical audio cables, but I will try those next. I hope that this will work because it will rely on different audio drivers for my computer (Realtek). I didn't have to run an extra audio cable when HDMI should work for all.

The additional troubleshooting steps I took were completely uninstall and reinstall all the graphics and audio drivers with more later from the Intel Web site. I would try a refresh of Windows installation because I think that it worked when my computer is first set up (before some problems with my SSD). The only problem with that is that I have many records of CableCard that I would lose to join because of copy protection.

So there is a work around for this problem, which is still not great, but will fix the problem to some extent (not require to keep switching the mode stereo surround for different applications). If you have your default playback device (mine is a Nvidia video card using the HDMI output) output configured for 5.1 surround sound it is a way that you can get Media Center working properly. If you start Windows Media Center by double clicking on a video recorded (record TV) in the recorded TV file default value it will launch Windows Media Center for the video and start playing without the two second loop audio and immanent freeze and screen "video playback error". Then, you can navigate to Live TV and it will continue to function properly. This seems to be the only medium that you can leave your speakers configured to 5.1 surround output and still use Media Center.

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