Don's HTPC

Remember my mentioning that I was very happy with Beyond TV V4.1 --- with the exception of one relatively minor problem/inconvenience. When playing back recorded HD content everything would be fine until I decided to fast-forward, pause, or in anyway interrupt the video stream. When I did that, the Audio would immediately cut out(as expected), but when I resumed the video ---- the audio was still gone.
In order to get around this nusiance problem, I had to mouse into "tool" and set the audio to 2-channel (I normally use the digital SPDIF option) -- the sound would immediately come back, then I could change back to SPDIF and all was well -- at least until the next time I wanted to ff or pause. A few seconds (5-15 sec) would be lost in this process --- Just an irritable nusiance.

I went over to the Beyond TV forums and posted my experience, asking if anyone else had experienced similar issues and looking for some guidance.
One of the responses that I got back in the forum was asking if I was using an ASUS mother board (and I am!) and if it had ADI Soundmax audio onboard (and it does!). He suggested that I go to the ASUS website and download the latest Soundmax drivers as there was a known problem with the older ones. He also indicated that if that didn't solve the problem that I should look at the SoundblasterLive Ext USB audio as it was know to work with no problems.

After several failed attempts to download and install the undated SoundMax drivers (These failed attempts we're due to my own errors, and not paying attention). I finally located and installed the correct drivers --v 5.12.1.5150.

Voila --- problem solved -- no more audio dropout ---- yeah!