audio to soundbar doesn't work for dvd's and games, but does for Netflix

JackJ59 · Jan 26, 2014

Can anyone help an old dad out?

My son has an XBox 360, and I have the HDMI out to a monitor, and digital audio out separately to a soundbar. The soundbar also is capable of using RCA.

He can watch Netflix fine - and on games his headset audio works fine - but I can't get the audio to the soundbar on games or playing dvd's. I've tried each of the setting options - Dolby stereo, 5.1, the other one. On the games, as it's loading and going
into the menus there is sound, but when the game actually starts to play, just a buzz. The same for DVD's.

Thanks in advance for any help, and sorry if this is a "Doh....!" solution.

:)

SandM1tch · Jan 26, 2014

Connection Sound Bar Using HDMI

For reference, HDMI ARC is meant for a TV to send the sound it receives from something like its digital TV tuner "upstream" to your soundbar.

The way you have it set up physically is correct, just that its not depending on ARC (Xbox One audio gets stripped from the HDMI cable by your soundbar and sends the video onto your TV).

Try changing the audio setting on the Xbox One to Stereo Uncompressed, make sure the soundbar isn't muted, etc. Maybe your Soundbar doesn't support 5.1 uncompressed, but 5.1 compressed Dolby Digital or DTS.

mcolinm · Jan 26, 2014

Sound Bar LG SJ9 Atmos Soundbar

Got this soundbar LG SJ9, when trying to set up the soundbar, it all gets connected and working, to make Atmos sound work on the soundbar through the Xbox I have to go to Blu Ray (4K Movie) settings and check the option to let the receiver decode audio,
but when I play a normal blu ray movie, i got a message saying that I have to uncheck this option, also when trying to set up the Atmos sound option on my Xbox says that my System (soundbar) doesn't support the Atmos sound even though when playing a 4K movie
the soundbar works fine (with the option to let the receiver decode audio checked).

Any suggestions ?

AJRulez951 · Apr 20, 2014

Did you figure this out I have the same issues?

Eyeguy759

Netflix is working for me again. Not sure if this was the Xbox update or not, but Netflix works for me. I still cannot play DVDs however. I get audio but no picture.

AJRulez951

Did you figure this out I have the same issues?

Evil Dan503

What features? The video feed is going straight into the TV. It is just the audio going to the soundbar from the TV.

4K at 120hz

If the sound bar uses HDMI 2.0, the TV will only be limited to 4K 60hz,

The video feed is not going into the soundbar. It is going into the TV. Hence all HDMI 2.1 features work as normal.

The TV returns the audio feed to the soundbar via eARC which does not require HDMI 2.1.

OhMrHanky

I have tried that. I also tried a couple other things. I disconnected the ONE altogether to separate that from the equation. I changed hdmi input ports. I then, also tried connecting the 360 hdmi directly to the soundbar. None of this works. It seems like
a couple possibilities here. 360 is NOT able to pass audio through hdmi to this soundbar, period. It is able to pass through the optical cable, however. So, either 360 doesn't pass audio through hdmi to this particular soundbar or something is just broken
in my 360. Obviously, it passes audio through hdmi to tv as I get sound that way. So, something between the hdmi signal from 360 to this particular soundbar just doesn't work. I think for my overall setup, I really need the One to connect directly to tv because
this gives the best sound for most of what I'm doing (when one is connected directly to soundbar, then to tv, I get worse sound, so One has to be connected to tv first, then optical to soundbar which prevents me from hooking up 360 optical to soundbar as
I'm not switching out plugs every time I switch systems). So, 360 is simply going through tv speakers now. Not a huge deal, but I'm surprised I can't hook this up the way I had it.

kingvas78

My Polk soundbar is hooked up to my TV via audio cable..... works fine

audio to soundbar doesn't work for dvd's and games, but does for Netflix