Trying to set up a HTPC to my Naim AV system, I cannot get sound
The AV system is AV2/DVD5/5.1 speaker set up/Pioneer PDP5000EX. HTPC Fierce epyx200
[Fierce Epyx 200 HTPC | AMD A6 3500 Tripple Core 2.10Ghz CPU, Asus Motherboard, HDMI, 8GB Memory, 1TB (1000GB) HD, Dual Freeview TV Card, Blu-ray ROM/DVDRW Burner. Home Theatre PC]
Have connected HDMI from HTPC to PIoneer display: picture is fine Digital Optical out on HTPC to digital optical in on AV2: no sound
Help!
Posted on: 17 July 2012 by Richard Dane
Assuming that when you take digital optical from the DVD5 into the same AV2 optical input, all works fine, then I'd assume there is a problem with the HTPC optical output. Perhaps you need to go into the HTPC setup menu and either switch on the optical output or ensure it's outputting a data stream compatible with the AV2. You may have to disable digital on HDMI to enable on optical s/pdif. The AV2 will take either PCM stereo or a multichannel bitstream but may not work if the HTPC is only outputting very high res PCM over 96Khz sampling. If there's an option to limit the digital output to say, 24bit 48kHz then try that to see whether that works OK.
Posted on: 07 August 2012 by Occean
You probably need to look at the sound setting on the HTPC and tell it not to send sound down the hdmi but the optical instead.
I will have a look when I get home as I had to do this.
