Console Audio Output Drop Issue after starting apps and game

Are you playing on a Xbox console?

If so, go to the audio settings in the console settings and set up the console audio to output game audio via headset.

In the headphone settings you can also set up spatial 3D audio, by turning the audio output for headphones to Windows Sonic, or if you have purchased the Atmos App (the free app only works 14 days with headphones), you can also set Dolby Atmos for headphones.

If you are on the PC, you need to make the headphone your device for audio output (not only voice communications).

Click on the speaker icon in the lower right, and choose the output channel for the headphone. Depending on your soundcard or USB headset, you need to select the proper audio output.

To be clear to anyone who reads this...the audio issues of BF4 are their own.

I have experience the same thing as the OP and can confirm...

- HDMI cables don't matter

- I've set mine up to have everything run to an HDMI port on the TV then optical audio out to the Tuner. It worked great for the first hour but has since dropped to silence a matter of minutes after starting, seemingly indifferent to any app, I've tried
two games, netflix, amazon instant video, all drop the audio and stay silent until every component is turned off and back on.

- if, when it is silent, I turn on the TV audio (instead of using the tuner output) the audio is there working per usual

- we should get some form of payment for beta-testing a system that was put into the while WAY TOO SOON!

Saint

This may seem stupid but do you get the audio drop out if you change the display output of the console at all?

By that I mean dropping it down to 720p or up to 1080p/i or any other setting.

go into the settings in companion app and change output audio, mine usually sets the mic as the audio output for some reason.

An update of sorts: I have discovered that if I start up (after unplugging from the wall and at the brick) the audio will work fine for as long as I care to play either of the two games I own. However, if after gaming with no audio issues, I try to use Netflix
or Amazon Prime the audio will drop within a matter of minutes.

Likewise, if I power down and cold reboot (as described above) the audio will work fine again until launching either of those apps. If I stick with games I don't have an issue. I thinking something with the optical audio processing on the apps versus the
games.

Lastly, as stated above if I turn up the volume on my TV itself, not the tuner which has audio piped to it via the TV's optical out and into the turn, the audio will be working fine. So annoying...very reproducible but at least fixable.

-Saint