No audio through optical cable to surround sound system. XBox One

Hi. I'm struggling to output audio from my XBoxOne to an old surround sound system via an optical cable.

The set up at the moment after a couple of trips to Maplin Electronics and chats with cable geeks is:

• Xbox to Monitor (Panasonic TH-50PHD88K) via HDMI (if I connect a speaker to the monitor, there is sound, but not the quality I'm after)
  
• Xbox to old DVD Tuner / Surround Sound system (Pioneer XV-DV55) via optical cable
  
• The surround sound system is set to 'digital optical' on 'audio 1'

I assumed I'd simply need to adjust the sound settings on the XBox and that would be that, but I've had no success at all. In
settings | display and sound there are the following options under the
digital audio heading. I have tried all sorts of variations, but the logical one to me was to turn off HDMI and then set the optical options to 'stereo uncompressed' or 'bitstream out'. (Looking at the manual for the surround
sound system, I'm told that it recognises both Dolby Digital and DTS so I assumed it would work.)

HDMI audio options

• Off
• Stereo uncompressed
• 5.1 uncompressed
• 7.1 uncompressed
• Bitstream out

Optical audio options

• Off
• Stereo uncompressed
• Bitstream out

Bitstream format

• DTS Digital Surround
• Dolby Digital

Any help would be very much appreciated. I've spent an afternoon getting frustrated and have no idea what to try next. By the way, I have tried powering off the XBox after changing settings and then powering up again with the surround sound system already
on in the hope that the XBox would pick it up.

Many thanks

Phil

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No Xbox One audio through Sony Surround receiver only get Sky Tv audio?But i can through the tv.

Can anyone help?

Am i missing something in settings . I have my sky+hd box on hdmi passthrough and an optical lead from xbox one to my surround sound system.then hdmi back from xbox to tv.i can get my xbox audio through tv but not through my sound system.

 

Optical Out with No Surround Sound

Huh, Most receivers have between 5 and 8 HDMI inputs so if you plug everything into it then only one cable needs to get to your monitor. I use the HDMI to my receiver for sound and of course the TV, I use the optical out for headphones. There is no receivers
that have Optical Out that supports surround sound and very few tvs that have an optical out that supports surround sound other than that what is broadcast over the air.

This is a forum and I would not mind hearing a better way to accomplish surround sound through a home audio system while also getting it through headphones.

Yes, my Xbox 360 plays Dobly Surround Sound from the Optical Out, BUT XBOX ONE DOES NOT.

 

Hi Phil! Sorry to hear you're having some trouble with sound. I will say that while the console IS capable of outputting in both DTS and Dolby Digital and the decoder device is capable of both, I've found it to be a bit fiddly when choosing DTS. I have a
7.1 Dolby Surround headset system connected via Optical. When I choose DTS, it is completely dead, no sound at all. As soon as I switch to Dolby Digital, it works perfectly.

You definitely want your HDMI audio to "Off," and your Optical Audio should be set to "Bitstream Out," because optical needs bitstream to deliver multiple channels - stereo is the only uncompressed option. Then, after choosing Bitstream, you want to set
your Bitstream Format to Dolby Digital, and that SHOULD work. It works on mine, but that's not a guarantee for everyone by any means.

Let me know!

 

Thanks Jaymo. I'll try that when I get back from taking the littl'un to rugby!

 

Thanks again Jaymo. Sadly, no joy. I've just attached speakers to the monitor for now as I'm spending far too much time on it!! I read somewhere that optical or non-hdmi is 'beta'. I wonder if I should be telling the XBox in some other area of settings
what I'm up to? Anything in 'system'?

 

Hmm... sorry that didn't work for you! Out of curiosity, do you have an HDMI in/out on your Surround Sound? It could be a bit of incompatibility between the Xbox's compression codec and the decompression of your Surround Sound receiver. I've heard of a lot
of people that have issues when running through a decoder, which are fixed by setting it to "HDMI Uncompressed." Then, you can input your sound to the Decoder Via HDMI, and run HDMI from the decoder to the TV (for video only.)

The surround sound beta was initially just after the system launched, I don't think, IIRC, that it is in beta anymore.

That HDMI thing is just one possibility. I could be making it too complicated, too, because it could even be something as simple as a bad Optical Cable. They're such fragile little things, they can break pretty easily.

 

Hello Jaymo,

I contact you because I have the same issue with my xbox one and my decoder which is a blu-ray player home cinema (PIONEER BCS-717).

The first 3 times I used these materials together, the 5.1 worked perfectly.

But more and more often some sounds (like the voices) started to stop to work while the rest of the sounds still did. And that is permanent. HDMI audio options have always been on "5.1 uncompressed". Now only the "Stereo uncompressed" and the "Bitstream
out" allow all the sounds to work but I lost my 5.1.

I also tried to connect an optical wire between my decoder and my xbox one. When I switch the HDMI audio off and switch the Optical audio on, there is no sound at all.

I do not find any solution. I guess the problem is about the Xbox's compression codec and the decompression of my Sourround Sound Receiver as you talked about a while ago on this forum.

Have you found any solution ?

I hope you can help me.

Thank you.

 

Hmm... when you connected your Optical Cable, did you happen to change your audio output? For the Optical Cable to work, HDMI audio will need to be off like you mention, and then it will need to be set to Bitstream Out, and then Dolby Digital (rather than
DTS.) That's the only reason I can think of why it wouldn't work at all after connecting the optical cable. I'm not certain what could have happened to cause the HDMI out to stop working after it had worked for so long, but the optical cable would be a workaround
if we could get it going.

Let me know!

 

Thank you Jaymo for your quick answer. I am going to check that out tonight. I'll let you know.

 

Hi,

I'm having a very similar problem (SkyQ to X-box one via HDMI and then audio from X-box to Cambridge Audio AV Receiver [too old for HDMI] via optical).

My AV Receiver detects the incoming Dolby but reports only two channels (no centre speaker and no surround speakers).

I've tried all sorts and now suspect that this is perhaps caused by some digital rights management issues with optical not being able to support the DRM.

I am waiting on receiving an HDMI-optical converter and will post if this fixes the problem.

Cheers for now..!