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[hudson]

I have a sony blu ray player. I am running an HDMI cable from there to a yamaha reciever then another HDMI cable to a 1080P tv. I recieve a picture, but no sound. Is there a setting on the sony BR player or the yamaha receiver I need to change to HDMI?

 

[hudson]

Hdmi

Sorry, title of post should have been HDMI....

 

[j_garcia]

My guess is there is a setting for this, but if the receiver is on, why would you want sound to also come out of the TV?

 

[hudson]

I don't want sound from the tv, just the receiver. I'm not getting any sound from the receiver.

 

[j_garcia]

Then you will need to check the digital audio setup in the player to see what it is set to. If the player has other audio output options other than HDMI, it may default to one of the others and just needs to be setup. You would also need to set the output type to make sure that your receiver can decode whatever formats are being sent - if the receiver can't decode all formats, that may be what is happening.

 

[hudson]

Thanks, will try that..

 

[Adam]

Hi. Which Yamaha receiver do you have? Are you sure that it can process audio over HDMI?

If it can, then in addition to John's recommendations, you may need to assign the HDMI input that you used on the back panel of the receiver to the input source that you are selecting (e.g. assign the HDMI input to "DVD").

If it can't process audio over HDMI, then you'll need to connect the audio in a different way.

 

[lsiberian]

It could also be a handshake issue. Power cycling resolves those.

 

[hudson]

I still cannot get the HDMI to work through the receiver. I ran an optical cable from the BR player to the receiver...am getting surround sound, but when I specify which audio to recieve from the dvd...ie DTS or Dolby Digital, it doesn't seem to switch to that....Should I try a component cable?

 

[Adam]

You would select the audio track (Dolby Digital, DTS, etc.) on the blu-ray player, not on the receiver. Perhaps that what you are doing, but it sounds like you're trying to select it on the receiver only.

I'll ask again - which Yamaha receiver do you have? If you tell us, we can help you better.

 

[hudson]

I did select it on the blu ray player...the receiver is the Yamaha RX-V363. I just found out the HDMI won't pass audio to the receiver, just to the TV. Thanks for all of your help!

 

[Adam]

Hi. Check out page 49 of the owner's manual for the 363 to read up on how to set the decoder options. You can set it up to automatically select the decoder (DTS or Dolby Digital).

Also, be sure that your blu-ray player is outputting the audio in bitstream instead of PCM.

 

[hudson]

Will do...thanks again for your help. Is DTS better than Dolby Digital 5.1?

 

[Adam]

Always happy to help when I can!

I recall surveys back in the late 90's when those first came out, and it seemed like 50% of the people preferred DD, and 50% preferred DTS. So...it was a toss up.

DTS is less compressed than DD, so it can in theory have better sound quality. Whether it will or not depends on how the audio track is mastered. It also matters whether someone's equipment (including their ears) can tell the difference.

All that said (too much, probably ), I prefer DTS. I do think that it sounds better on my system. My suggestion, which you are probably doing right now, is just to try both out and see which you like. Be sure to try it on more than one disc, as it can depend on how the audio was mastered.

 

[hudson]

I appreciate your suggestions...this forum is awesome....