Weird Soundbar Issue

[pauljeremiah]

I'm having a weird issue with my 4K setup.

I have a Sony 4K TV and a Sony soundbar, the HT-XT3, in my home office, and I have the Samsung 4K player.

I am using a dual HDMI setup, one for picture and the second one for audio. If I just use one HDMI the PQ is 4K/HDR but the sound quality takes a small dip as the TV can only process DD and DTS but not True DD or DTS-HD.

When I put a disc in the sound bar tries to get the sound from the TV by default and I have to manually change the input for audio to HDMI1. Which is fine, a very small price to pay for better sound quality, but anytime I pause a film or fast forward or rewind, but not scene skip, the input reverts back to TV.

Any ideas as to how I might go about to fix this?