Audio cable

I have a 56" Samsung that I want to use to play games with while I'm home however my AVR only has HDMI video outputs/inputs not audio so while I can hookup my computer through HDMI I only get video and not audio. So what kind of cable can I use to get audio? I would rather hook it up via my AVR than to my TV so that I can use my surround sound.

 

You can use the headphone out... but it wont be anything resembling surround sound.

HDMI outputs Audio, so i'm failing to see why you wouldnt just use that. You might not get surround sound, but your TV speakers will destroy anything your notebook can produce with its speakers

 

Just be nice if I could use my 5.1 sound system.

 

You can always upgrade your AVR so it accepts HDMI audio and video, that would be better in the long run... but a bit expensive in the grand realm of options available for you.

Do you have a digital audio input? between that and HDMI you can "kinda" make it work

 

I use a optical cable for the sound, it blows my AVR doesnt get audio out via HDMI, I just bought it about a year and half ago; I will upgrade but not for awhile as I have just spend $1300 on a whole new set of 5.1 speakers. Upgraded old Sony bookshelf speakers to floorstanding Polk Audio speakers.

 

should have went 11.4 THX

Well thats my dream, if i can ever convince myself to sell a kidney to get 12 grand for the set up

It is odd that your unit doesnt support HDMI sound. 1 - 1.5 years ago HDMI was already pretty universal for HD audio and video

 

This is my setup. I could be wrong about the AVR but I haven't been able to get it to use HDMI (well the audio part)

Home Theater:
T.V.- 56" Samsung DLP 1080P
Receiver- Pioneer VSX-917V
Front- Polk Audio Monitor 70
Center- Polk Audio CS2
Surround- Polk Audio Monitor 60
Sub- Polk Audio PSW505 12-Inch Powered Subwoofer

 

Wow it really does just use HDMI video. I have no idea what you would need at this point

Nice set up by the by. I would love to watch movies on all that equipment

 

Thank you, ya its pretty lame that I have to use a optical cord,i"ll upgrade my AVR at some point. Newegg is having an awesome sale on Polk Audio speakers so get em while you can that the price I got mine. About $1300 for all the speakers, I'll get 2 more for a 7.1 system but I'll do that when I move as I dont have room for 7 speakers

 

You guys need to right click on the sound icon, then click on playback devices. Click "set default" on the HDMI output audio.

Protip: you have to close and reopen any media player/mp3 player to get audio if you do this.

 

I have never seen HDMI not have sound. Like the above mentions it maybe a setting. Back when I was using windows primarily I had to play with the settings but I had it working. Also I read somewhere where HDMI 2.0 is coming out. It comes with ethernet.

http://www.tech-faq.com/hdmi.shtml

"HDMI is an uncompressed, all-digital signal audio/video interface with 5 Gbps of available bandwidth."

 

I believe it is only video pass through, even check out the reviews
http://www.amazon.com/review/R12RTM27EOIMJG/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R12RTM27EOIMJG

Unless I am wrong which I hope I am I would love to change to HDMI audio.

 

Well thanks for the link, I looked at the specs. I am wrong im sorry. Apparently there are a couple avrs that only have HDMI video.

 

That's so lame isn't it? I mean I paid like 300 something bucks for it I should have looked at it more closely when I bought it. I don't know why I didn't look at the HDMI b4 I bought it, what was I thinking?

 

OK, this should work...

As you indicate, there are AVR's that only pass-thu HDMI; they are just switches (some up-convert). You can however run the PC through the TV's HDMI input, then take the SPDIF audio out of the TV and run it through the AVR's SPDIF input (like connecting a Blu-Ray player). This will give you 5.1 surround only (not "True-HD" audio).

You can also buy a special optical cable that plugs into the audio-out of the lappy (there's an optical SPDIF output hidden inside of our lappys! Image below). This would allow you to use your AVR directly but would require two cables running from the lappy. Again, 5.1 only.

You didn't list the model of the TV. Some TV's have a dedicated HDMI input just for PC's. It may give better video results.

 

Happens, your avr just showed me up. Just teaches you that you have to research hardcore before you buy anything anymore.

 

i did what this guy said but with out the optical i just hooked my hdmi cable to my laptop and then to my t.v. and it works great. the only problem is these computer sometimes have a glitch so to get the sound to work you need to plug in the hdmi cable to both computer and t.v. and restart the laptop. i have tried every way to get it to recognize the t.v. with out restarting it but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't so the only sure way to get it to work is to restart the pc. i hope this helps i also have a system and it plays music or video game sound beautifully through the hdmi in the t.v..

 

Did you guys miss my last post??? Audio does go through the HDMI cable. I watch movies all the time.

 

Yes audio goes through HDMI. But if the mechanism receiving the signal doesnt receive HDMI audio, then it doesnt much matter

 

Did you look at his AVR specs? Did you read what the OP is saying? Look up HDMI video pass through.

 

Yeah, ok, I see now. Yeah, the only options on something like that are optical or coax, and since the computer doesn't support coax cable, that option is out. I'm sure an adapter exists. If not, and you feel like wasting some money, you could always grab some crimp connectors and attempt to make an adapter with the hdmi cable that simply reroutes the sound through some RCA connectors. That could work, but it's a big pain. I'd be surprised if something like that doesn't exist already though.

 

well its not like youll get much better audio on hdmi then what goes through the toslink cable as our laptop does not under the hdmi specification even support true hd anyway. i dunno if your aware but our laptops hdmi connector is only hdmi 1.2 compliant not 1.3+ i think optical toslink is more then enough anyway. you could also invest in an external audio card like the xfi surround 5.1 or something like that but i think the optical is good enough.

 

Looks like it's more trouble than it's worth.