I am having issues too with HDMI sound, especially when trying to watch DVDs. Interestingly I don't have any problems with Windows Media Player sending sound out via HDMI. Someone please remind me why I paid for PDVD8?

I ended up getting Arcsoft Theater and have absolutly no issues with HDMI, works fine and integrates with Windows Media very nicely-- I'm wondering the same as you--why pay so much money for this crap. I complained about this problems 3 or 4 updates ago- they still haven't done anything and customer support will copy/paste answers about aacs and more BS, they won't admit they have a problem, simply put-- they won't fix it or they don't know how to fix.

Trying to get "Burn after reading" to work with HDMI audio. Video is output fine via component video (no HDMI on my projector) but the HDMI is only outputting 2 channel audio and PDVD freezes when I try to change the speaker environment.

To get sound while using an HDMI connection I had to choose SPDIF in the settings. When choosing HDMI as the choice for sound the program crashes.

Thanks for the reply John-- yup same here with SPDIF, the problem is won't pass anything other than DD and DTS 5.1, all 7.1 tracks are lost that way.. at times, just switching to spdif from speaker will cause the PDVD8 to hang and crash.