No audio from Onkyo surround sound

Mr-White

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Setup as follows:

Samsung LE32M8 32" TV

Onkyo SKSHT528 5.1 Speakers

Onkyo TXSR307 Amp

Sony BDPS360 MR DVD

I've connected the TV HDMI into the HDMI out on the amp and the blu ray player is connected to the DVD/DB HDMI port on the amp. I can get the amp to perform a test setup and all the speakers work and I can get video from the blu ray on the tv but no audio through the 5.1. I do get audio coming out of the tv. I've tried connecting the blu ray directly to the tv and it works fine with both HDMI cables. Any ideas what i'm doing wrong ? :(

MW
 
ffallic said:
I thought the 307 didn't do audio over HDMI?
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Yep defo right there HDMI for video only.

the SR307 does not process any audio over the HDMI input. It is a "pass-through" device that will switch video and pass it to the TV, but for audio you need to use a toslink optical or digital coax audio cable to get the audio to the receiver. In the Onkyo lineup, the first receiver that can handle audio over HDMI is the SR507
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Not sure if the upscaler is any good either if my Onkyo 607 is anything to go by. Connect direct to your TV as opposed to your AMP then AMP TV out :)
 
Mr-White said:
Thanks, do I literally just connect the blu ray player to the amp with an optical cable ?

MW
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Yes, and the configure your bluray player with SP/DIF as the primary audio output, which should force it to pick the DTS Core, and DD+ Soundtracks automatically when you select DTS HD/MA, or Dolby TrueHD.

If you have options for DTS and Dolby to be output as PCM then make sure these are not selected, it should output DTS as a DTS Bitstream and Dolby as an AC3 or Dolby Digital+ bitstream to ensure 5.1 surround.

Ive yet to find a disk where the 5.1 surround doesnt work properly, and imho unless your willing to drop 5-10k on amps and speakers the HD source isnt a huge step up over the lossy DTS and Dolby codecs. Especially as on bluray Dolby is encoded at 640kbps (256-448 on DVD), and DTS is 1536 on bluray and normally 768(approx) on DVD. So even the lossy codecs are "upgrades" compared to DVD.
 
Woohoo I sorted it out by button bashing :)

I didn't see the setup options on the amp to set what output goes with each device. So once I set the blu ray player to optical and the DVD/BD on the amp to optical 1 I had audio :D

MW
 
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