Problems with 5.1 and Xbox One

Hello,

I just brought a Yamaha RX-V520 RDS 5.1 receiver and wanted to be able to use it with my Xbox One to provide surround sound for gameplay, movies and music.

The problem I'm having is that the audio seems to be in 2.1 rather than 5.1.

The sound feed from the Center Speaker goes to the Front Left and Front Right Speakers, the sound feed from the Left Rear goes to the Front Left and the sound feed from the Rear Right goes to the front right.

Sound DOES come from the tears but very very very quiet, the majority of the sound comes from the fronts and the sound in the rears is a copy of what is playing out of the fronts.

For connections I have:

Audio: Optical going from Xbox One to Receiver.

Video: HDMI going from Xbox One to TV.

The settings on the xbox are set to surround sound and the amp is set up for surround sound.

Also, I have tested my speakers on a completely different amp and everything was fine so not sure what to do.

Any ideas?

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kinda bothering

Wait? no optical 5.1? what?...So how does one get 5.1 with the xbox one.

 

Weird Sound Issue -

Have you tried going into the xbox ones sound settings and changing the sound setting.

On my tv having 5.1 sound selected on any device causes problems with lip sync

I've noticed there are 4 sound settings to choose from, Stereo uncompressed, 5.1 uncompressed, 7.1 uncompressed and bitstream out.

On my tv the only one that works properly is stereo uncompressed. So you should check the settings and maybe try changing them.

 

Hi there ivCourtSmith,

Can you let us know if the Yamaha device is up to date with the latest firmware updates? Also, are you using Dolby Atmos at all?

Thank you and have a great week!

 

Hi, as this thread is just a few days old I'll join with same issue. I have a new Xbox One X and noticed that sounds supposed to be coming just from rear surrounds are also coming out the fronts.

My set up is Xbox -> optical -> Denon receiver -> 5 speakers. Xbox set to TV audio off, Bitstream, and Dolby Digital (DTS has same issue as DD)

To test the system I first used the receivers own test tones to prove the speakers were wired correctly - they are.

Then, I used a DVD player which is connected to my receiver by optical. I used the 'Digital Video Essentials' test DVD to play the pink noise test tones from each speaker in turn - the tones from the DVD player also played to the correct speaker
- so the receiver is decoding DD and DTS correctly.

Finally, I put same DVD in the Bluray player in the One X and played same tones. Result: what a mess - every tone that should be coming out a rear surround is also coming out the respective front speaker, with the net result that sounds are never
behind you. It seems that the DD or DTS encoding in the One X is being done incorrectly.

For those using One X with 5.1 over optical, a simple check is to find a point source emitting a noise in any game, then turn so you are looking 180 degrees away from the noise. The noise should then be coming out your rear surround ONLY. It isn't.

@ Mister Kellogg - is there a definitive surround sound test app or some other tool that I can download to resolve this problem under your instruction?