Bingo, I think I fixed the Meridian to lock into Movie6 mode and stay there no matter what for the Clux :-) And it still supports locking in Music2 also with a phantom.

I documented it in the Wiki.

http://www.meridianunplugged.com/wiki/index.php/HDMISolutions

The Meridian actually officially supports a MultiChannel digital non MHR device. You don't need to fake it with a G98. It's a little hidden and I forgot you could add inputs to any generic device. I believe by NOT faking it with a G68 it does not expect meta data over MHR and defaults depending on the type of device. For example a generic DVD with MultiChannel Digital defaults to Movie6 but maybe (I didn't try it) a Generic DVDA MultiChannel might default to Music6. I don't know that for a fact but DVD now defaults to Movie6 which is what most folks want.

This also solves allowing you to keep Music and Movie layouts appropriately with the clux doing movies and music as well.

To force a test of the problem I had. If I paused the PS3 with a BD movie and changed to a different source that was 2 Channel and then back the Meridian would come back to Music2 mode (Trifield). Even if I resume the player it would stay in Music2. Now with the Fix it snaps back to Movie6 even with the PS3 still paused. You could stumble into this issue if you for example selected the source while the DB Menus were up. The only way out was to select another source and then come back to BD player (WHILE playing) and it would see 6 channels and go to Music6 mode again. Now it stays in Movie6.

You can still choose between Cinema and Discrete while in Movie6 mode. The important thing is it defaults to a 6 Channel mode and the mode is also defaulting to Movie. Most people want that as the default.

Edit: Oops I made an error. It is staying locked in 6 channel mode but it's locking into Music6 not Movie6. So it's half fixed. If you don't use different layouts for Movie and Music it's not a big deal. I forgot I defaulted Music6 to Cinema and assumed I was in Movie6 mode and not Music6. This is still a huge step forward though.

Last edited by George Mills; 2008-12-04 06:11.
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