What is optical audio?

Discus and support What is optical audio? in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; I'm just using an HDMI cable connection and have stereo uncompressed for my HDMI audio. So should optical audio be off or stereo uncompressed and does... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by IAMHIJKLM15, Sep 27, 2015.

  1. IAMHIJKLM15
    IAMHIJKLM15 Guest

    What is optical audio?


    I'm just using an HDMI cable connection and have stereo uncompressed for my HDMI audio.

    So should optical audio be off or stereo uncompressed and does it matter?

    :)
     
    IAMHIJKLM15, Sep 27, 2015
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  2. LFC Hooligan 81
    LFC Hooligan 81 Guest
    Optical Out - What is it for??

    Hi Guys. I am a total noob to all this. I have a TV with no Digital Optical Out port. I am looking to buy a sound bar that only has a Digital Optical connection. If I hook the Sound bar through my Xbox One, will this work? I currently run my Sky box through
    the Xbox Ones HDMI port. So if it does work, will games, Blu Ray and my TV run through the sound bar when using the Xbox One? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I am new to this sound bar malarky. Thanks in advance.
     
    LFC Hooligan 81, Sep 27, 2015
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  3. SuperCalaFragle
    SuperCalaFragle Guest
    Optical Out - What is it for??

    I have two 360's in the same room. I don't have any receivers. We use the optical out for our Tritton AX Pros. It's kind of a necessary feature for us as we do run both consoles at the same time and it gets really annoying when you hear the tink tink of
    a grenade on the other persons TV and start to run around trying to make sure you don't walk into a grenade marker.
     
    SuperCalaFragle, Sep 27, 2015
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  4. KyleHurd
    KyleHurd Guest

    What is optical audio?

    Hi, optical audio is mainly used for surround sound systems. And it wouldn't make a difference to you if you use optical audio cause your sound is probably coming through your tv. So what your asking is if you should turn it off and I would since your not
    using it and I don't know if it would matter cause I'm using a surround sound setup in my house. I hope this help man.
     
    KyleHurd, Sep 27, 2015
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  5. KyleHurd Win User

    What is optical audio?

    Hi, optical audio is mainly used for surround sound systems. And it wouldn't make a difference to you if you use optical audio cause your sound is probably coming through your tv. So what your asking is if you should turn it off and I would since your not
    using it and I don't know if it would matter cause I'm using a surround sound setup in my house. I hope this help man.
  6. EggsBoxJuan Win User

    SPDIF Optical Audio Cord not working.

    ok, the optical audio connection on Tv's is an output only in which case what you're trying isn't going to work, you need to connect the optical audio out on the Xbox to an amp or av/receiver etc. I would stick with HDMI audio to be honest.
  7. boreallis Win User

    No audio via optical output

    My audio optical out recently just quit working altogether. Was there a recent update or something that stopped sending out the audio signal over optical?

    I do notice on my receiver it now displays Dolby Digital when I use the HDMI when it didn't previously. I was using the optical audio to get Dolby Digital.

    Any ideas on what's going on?
  8. Zavistic Win User

    Xbox One Audio Problem

    HDMI: HDMI Audio has stopped working on my Monitor.

    OPTICAL AUDIO: Don't have any Optical Audio speaker systems.
  9. J3RS3Y DEVIL Win User

    I did some of my own investigating.

    What does a PC in another room have to do with anything?

    Most home theatre's have a optical audio if the do not have HDMI.

    You can connect optical audio (toslink) from your Xbox one to your home theatre
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