Surround Sound Help

[Schweppy]

I'm useless with this stuff. Just bought a Yamaha AV763 cheap and have got it working OK with the PS3 and Apple TV2 but I am struggling with setup with my Sumvision Micro2 HD Media player.

There are no audio options on the player so I guess it's just Dolby Digital or DTS pass through over HDMI and then the Amp should decode it?

When I set it to Surround Sound Decoding, I only get audio from the Centre Speaker. If I choose 7 channel enhancer then I get audio from all speakers but it only displays PCM which I guess isn't proper surround sound.

Anyone shed some light?

 

[C.J]

Does the media player need setting to surround?
So it knows what to send to the amp.

 

[clancy]

make sure what your playing is in proper surround sound, else you will only get sound from the front speakers unless its in 5 channel stereo or something

 

[Schweppy]

Well the media player is just a cheap Sumvision Micro 2 HD player an only has HDMI. no audio options at all as far as I can see. So must be decoding on the amp?

 

[Munson]

Not all of these media players can output multi-channel audio. It certainly won't have its own decoder (if it did, it would have multi-channel pre-outs on the back). If there are no audio options then my guess is that it cannot output surround sound, so your amplifier's decoder will be getting down-mixed stereo. Set your amplifier to pro-logic or something, and you'll get surround. Albeit not proper discrete multi-channel.

 

[Munson]

It appears that it does handle digital audio just fine, and there is an audio setup menu. It also has a coaxial digital out.

 

[Schweppy]

Sorted! Me being an idiot.

Apparently the 1080p MKV I was testing had a dodgy audio track.

Just tried another and getting DTS no probs.