Analog Audio from Old Blu Ray

[dalessandro12]

I recently purchased a Sony S570 and have watched several new Blu Rays with no audio issues. Today, I put in Terminator 2 and had no audio. I thought that connecting via HDMI would be sufficient but in order to hear anything for this movie (oddly enough the previews and menus were audible through HDMI) I had to connected analog cables to my receiver.

A little confused about this so naturally I have a few questions. Is my receiver (Onkyo SR508) smart enough to send HD audio through HDMI when present? Now I have both HD and analog cables from my BDP want to ensure I get the best audio possible.

Thanks for any help on this.

 

[yepimonfire]

the audio for this disc is encoded in both standard dolby digital and DTS HD go into the disc's setup menu and select dolby digital and try it again. if it still is not working try selecting DTS HD MA, the receiver is able to decode both though, so maybe it's an issue of your BDP not bitstreaming it right.

 

[dalessandro12]

the audio for this disc is encoded in both standard dolby digital and DTS HD go into the disc's setup menu and select dolby digital and try it again. if it still is not working try selecting DTS HD MA, the receiver is able to decode both though, so maybe it's an issue of your BDP not bitstreaming it right.

Thanks, I didn't think of that. I'll go into the setup today to see if that is an option.

 

[sptrout]

Is my receiver (Onkyo SR508) smart enough to send HD audio through HDMI when present? Thanks for any help on this.

I hope you have found your problem by now, but I did want to comment about the sentence I quoted above.

The AVR (any AVR) has nothing to do with what digital format is being sent to it via HDMI from a Blu-ray player or any other device. Its only function is to decode whatever format that the player is sending to it (assuming that it has the proper CODECs to decode the incoming data stream). The Blu-ray player's settings by the user (and how the disk was authored) has total control of the digital format being sent out its HDMI plug.

 

[jostenmeat]

the audio for this disc is encoded in both standard dolby digital and DTS HD go into the disc's setup menu and select dolby digital and try it again. if it still is not working try selecting DTS HD MA, the receiver is able to decode both though, so maybe it's an issue of your BDP not bitstreaming it right.

I cannot recall a single DTS-MA bluray that even had a menu to select a different codec. Ok, I lie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind has a menu, but that's so we can select other lossless codecs.

DTS-MA is a dual bitstream; there is absolutely no need for DD. DTS-MA = DTS core + MA extension stream. Even with zero MA capability, there is nothing to select with an older legacy DTS receiver. It will still work fine.

dalessandro12, something is definitely fishy. I assume you have HDMI cable from receiver, directly to display. Nothing else really . . .

Does the 508 require input assignment? Is your HDMI Audio set to off? Believe it or not, this is usually set as off, and not on. On is for when TV does the audio by itself, and the speakers connected to the Onkyo are not being used. There may be an auto setting of some sort, but I am not familiar, because my projector does not have speakers.

I'm pretty confused, so I'm just trying to come up with something out of thin air.

 

[yepimonfire]

now that i think of it you might want to check the blu ray players setting as well. maybe its the disc, maybe its the player, but you said it works with other discs so who knows.

 

[j_garcia]

Do you have the player set to bitstream or LPCM for HDMI? The menus are not in DTS regardless of what the disc is so if you have this set wrong, it may not give you sound.