Help w/ Pioneer DV45A & DVD-A

[Cavediver]

I have a Pioneer Elite DV 45A DVD player that's about 3 years old. It is hooked up to a Pioneer Elite 74TXVi receiver. The audio is hooked up to the receiver via a digital coax cable.

I'm getting inconsistent results with DVD-A's. Some come up with a top menu that let me select the audio mode such as DD 5.1 and the music sounds incredible. Some DVD-A's just start playing in 2 channel only with no top menue and some come up with a top menu with only two choices ( 2 channel and surround). When I choose surround, the receiver indicates 96khz + ddpl.

Last night, I tried the Steely Dan two against nature DVD-A. The package indicates that the DVD-A will play 4 ways (Advanced Resloution Stereo; Adv. Res. 6 Channel Surround Sound; DTS 5.1 Surround Sound; and DVD-Video Compatible Dolby Digital). The top menu only had two choices; surround or stereo. I chose surround and the thing started playing with the receiver indicating 96khz +ddPL MS. The audio menu of the DVD player indicated that it was playing in 2 channel. I could not figure out how to play any of the other modes. The DVD player will play DTS DVD-video's in DTS, so I know that DTS will work from the DVD player through the digital coax. I also have a couple of SACD's that only play in 2 channel.

I have scoured the manual and all of the menues that I can find, but I seem to be missing something. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

 

[rgriffin25]

First you need to connect the 6CH output from the DVD player to the Receivers multi-channel input. Then in the DVD set-up menu make sure that the disc priority is set to DVD-audio not DVD-video.

You cannot pass the Hi-Rez audio signal thru a digital coax cable. You need to use 3 sets of stereo RCA cables to accomplish this.

Hope this helps!

 

[Cavediver]

Ok. I hooked up the audio as you suggested with 3 pairs of rca audio cables and selected the multi-channel in on the receiver, but now there is no display output to the tv so I can't see the menus to select the audio mode on the DVD-A. Any suggestions?

 

[MDS]

Did you connect the video from the player to the receiver and from the receiver to the TV? You could also go straight from the player to the TV.

 

[Cavediver]

The video is connected in to the receiver from the DVD player via component cables and the tv is connected to the receiver via HDMI - DVI.

 

[MDS]

The video is connected in to the receiver from the DVD player via component cables and the tv is connected to the receiver via HDMI - DVI.

If you get no video then the receiver does not transcode analog video signals to hdmi. Connect the player directly to the tv with component video cables or swap the hdmi connection for component video and all should be well.

 

[rgriffin25]

Make sure that you are in DVD mode when you select the Multi-Channel in. Multi-channel in will use the video source of what ever input you are on. For example,

TV/SAT + Multi-Channel in = TV/SAT video / DVD audio

 

[Cavediver]

Make sure that you are in DVD mode when you select the Multi-Channel in. Multi-channel in will use the video source of what ever input you are on. For example,

TV/SAT + Multi-Channel in = TV/SAT video / DVD audio

The problem I'm having is that when I select the DVD mode on the receiver, and try to select the inputs, the receiver doesn't give me the option to add multi-channel in as the audio source, or I'm missing something.