Picture but no audio from Sony Bluray player? (Not a soundbar issue!)

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I don't think I've used my BD player since I moved to a soundbar setup. Now I'm a little confused. I have the Sennheiser Ambeo Mini, Panasonic TX-42LZ980B OLED and an old Sony DBP-S185 bluray player. SkyQ, AppleTV working completely fine on their hdmi inputs and using eARC.
Trying to watch a couple of blurays and I get picture, but no sound through the soundbar. It's plugged into hdmi4. Err, could it be the cable? Some sort of setting on the player? :confused:

Feel like it's going to be something obvious here... TIA!
 
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Blu ray hdmi to TV, then ARC from TV to soundbar?

Blu ray player sound output is set to hdmi?
You might have had it set to that, but maybe it's defaulted back to optical or something for the long period you haven't used it?
 
Check if the TV speakers work receive sound if that's ok then Sony BD- TV is fine
Check TV-soundbar cable is on correct HDMI sockets on both side for ARC/E-ARC.
Then check Sony TV audio output, should be set to whatever you're connecting from TV to soundbar, optical/arc/e-arc. Then go through auto/PCM/Bitstream options.
 
rodders said:
Blu ray hdmi to TV, then ARC from TV to soundbar?
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Yep. I’ll have a look tomorrow, but indent think there were any options to change the BD’s sound output. There were options for Dolby or PCM etc which I did play with but to no avail.

And yep @hornetstinger I’ll see if it’s feeding sound to the tv speakers ok. Like I say other devices are fine.
 
hornetstinger said:
Check if the TV speakers work receive sound if that's ok then Sony BD- TV is fine
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Finally getting a chance to look at this. Interestingly enough when swapping to TV speakers I am still not getting sound. So that's kinda good that it's not the soundbar (obv as everything else is fine with it). Worth trying a different HDMI cable? Pic is fine..

About to plough through all the BD audio settings... it's all very unclear :o
 
hornetstinger said:
Generally bitstream in BD player.
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Did some reading of the manual, tried all settings, tried different hdmi cable into the tv (and listening to tv speakers as opposed to soundbar obviously). Still nothing. So weird!

The BD player does have digital coax out so I’m off to hunt for a cable to try that. The question would be… should I plug that into the telly or soundbar? I’m assuming telly as I believe I can pick that as a sound source for the BD’s input. Not sure how I would do that on the soundbar, for only that device.
 
I'm sooooooo confused. Spent the best part of half the day trying different things here. Long story short my mate reckons it's a HDCP thing as the BD player is so old*. Weird it would send pic over HDMI but not audio though? :confused:

The BD player has coaxial digital out;
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But the TV only has Toslink in, or analogue "AV in";
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What I could get working was using the red audio line out from the BD player, into that "AV in". But what would that actually be sending? :confused:

(On the TV input options for that specific input, I had to change the audio to 'analogue' in rather than the default 'digital' i.e. HDMI'. For 'analogue' it says it's for a HDMI-DVI adapter)

Using the orange digital coax out of the BD player into the "AV in" on the telly doesn't work, presumably because it's an analogue input. So, my thinking is that I should source a cable that is digital coax one end, and toslink the other. That would at least give me Dolby Digital or PCM :confused: and would be sufficient for my limited uses. Afterall it's only a 1080p player anyway. Does such a cable exist or do I need an adapter?

(Annoyingly I have a digital (toslink or coax) to analogue converter but it only works that way and not backwards!

*I also updated the firmware but that did nothing
 
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hornetstinger said:
Do you have another HDMI source? Console, DVD player etc.
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Yes I have a SkyQ box in hdmi1, AppleTV in hdmi 2. Both fine. Have tried plugging the BD player up with the cable from the AppleTV (so different cable and hdmi input), but same thing. Also tried a spare hdmi cable, but same thing.

It really seems like the BD player is not outputting audio over hdmi but I can't fathom why.
 
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Try doing a reset on your BD player. But if testing the same cable and TV input with another device, and everything pointing to BD player maybe output on the Sony is damaged, as long as you haven't set to coaxial out/analogue out, disabling hdmi audio out, and checking bitstream/pcm/raw etc etc
 
Who has two thumbs and only remembered this morning that they have their old plasma TV setup in the office room? :p :rolleyes:

The results are not helpful though, because I plugged it straight in and got audio out of the hdmi. Argh. That means it’s something with my OLED downstairs but I’ve been through the settings a million times, taken the soundbar out of the equation. Could it still be a HDCP error somehow? :confused:

Here is the BD player manual: https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/res/manuals/4290/42902821M.pdf

If anyone can take a look at the audio settings and suggest anything different - I’m all ears. I’d have thought choosing PCM/downmix would be the safest but I’ve not got any combo to work…
 
If you've tried each HDMI input, each cable, the BD player and it changes from one thing to another yeah that is really weird.

Maybe it is HDCP, that the TV is not backwards compatible with older HDCP units. Maybe try a modern BD player? Firmware update the Sony BD?

Try disabling secondary audio

Set all to downmix PCM audio and PCM audio

if other devices connected to that exact same input and using the same cable work, probably the BD, even though it works on older TV, you don't know how HDCP buggers things up.
 
Thanks @hornetstinger yeah I tried firmware upgrade and everything set to pcm. Friend I’m seeing today is convinced it’s a HDCP issue (older BD player with new TV, makes sense). He’s gonna loan me a HDFury adapter to see if it can strip it.

If that works my next option would be to try and take the audio out of the digital coax on the BD player into the toslink input on the TV right?
 
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hornetstinger said:
Optical on TV's is typically output, not input.
What about using analogue inputs?
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Ah right. I assumed because it was next to the AV in lol :o

Analogue worked as I mentioned above, what sort of audio channels will that pass though? 5.1? Or just stereo? That’d be fine for my usage. After all I’ve only got a soundbar and sub (can do Atmos, but I’m a realist!)

Need to buy longer cables though to set that up properly.
 
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