no sound from digital cable box..help

[BIslander]

Originally Posted by Erman_94

so you guys are saying there is no way to get audio from my cable box through a dvi-hdmi connection?

DVI doesn't send audio. So, no, you will need a separate audio connection.

or is there a way to tell my receiver to take the video from the dvi-hdmi and audio from the component?

That's what cwh060 is saying. He has that receiver and sounds like he's familiar with that limitation. If you use HDMI, the receiver expects both audio and video. Apparently, it won't take video from HDMI and audio from another source.

sorry if this has been answered in your replies, im not very tech savvy and have read your posts over and over again. i kind of understand, but not really

So, you would appear to have two choices:

1. Use component video and either coax or optical audio from the cable box to the receiver per cwh060's description.

2. Run video (DVI-to-HDMI) direct to your TV instead of routing it through the receiver. You'd still run optical or coax audio from the cable box to the receiver.

Use option 1 unless the video quality is better using DVI out of your cable box.

[Erman_94]

Originally Posted by BIslander

DVI doesn't send audio. So, no, you will need a separate audio connection.

That's what cwh060 is saying. He has that receiver and sounds like he's familiar with that limitation. If you use HDMI, the receiver expects both audio and video. Apparently, it won't take video from HDMI and audio from another source.



So, you would appear to have two choices:

1. Use component video and either coax or optical audio from the cable box to the receiver per cwh060's description.

2. Run video (DVI-to-HDMI) direct to your TV instead of routing it through the receiver. You'd still run optical or coax audio from the cable box to the receiver.

Use option 1 unless the video quality is better using DVI out of your cable box.

thanks for the detailed and mapped out response for a tech newb. id prefer to run option two..so how would i run optical/coax audio from the cable box to receiver and actually get sound? i tried running the dvi-hdmi option for video and hooking up the audio plugs to no avail...is there some sort of setting i have to put on the receiver to let it know where to take the audio from?

[wdhays]

BIslander says page 67 in the manual, (post 15), for instructions. Yes, you have to tell the receiver where to get the audio from. You need to assign coax1 to an input on the receiver, for example CBL/SAT, then use that input for your cable sound.

[blujacket]

Originally Posted by Erman_94

thanks for the detailed and mapped out response for a tech newb. id prefer to run option two..so how would i run optical/coax audio from the cable box to receiver and actually get sound? i tried running the dvi-hdmi option for video and hooking up the audio plugs to no avail...is there some sort of setting i have to put on the receiver to let it know where to take the audio from?

cwh060 gave you the instructions on last page