HDMI and Denon AVR-889

Hi,
I have the Mac mini mid 2011 wth the Intel HD 3000 card and it is hooked up via HDMI to my receiver then from my receiver to my Samsung TV. I have one nagging issue when switching sources, whenever I go back to the Mac mini the screen flickers like 3 times (resolution switching). If I plug the Mac mini HDMI directly to my TV it doesn't occur. What could be the cause and how to fix it? it does it on Snow leopard, lion and mountain lion. Also another irritating bug is sometime out of the blue I hear a loud white noise through my speakers and the screen flickers again, this doesn't happen often but still it's really annoying. Again, if I plug the Mini directly to the TV it doesn't happen.
Thanks in advance.

So, I guess the Mac mini only has the HDTV as its "display." So when the Devon receiver has the HDTV input switched to something else, for the Mac mini, it's like there is NO display connected. When the receiver switches back to the Mac mini, it's like you plugged in a display. That's probably why it does the flickering, because it is receiving information about what type of display just got connected and it's adjusting its output (on-the-fly) to match.
Do you have another Mac? If you do, you can try the following test... On the Mac mini, set up System Preferences Sharing pane to do Screen Sharing. Note the Computer Name shown there.
On the other Mac (assuming it's on the same local network), open a Finder window and find the Mac mini under SHARED (in the sidebar), with the Computer Name noted above. Select the Mac mini there. Over to the right, click on Share Screen, and log in to the Mac mini. The Screen Sharing app opens and shows the Mac mini's screen.
If the Mac mini is connected to the HDTV at that time, it should show the screen as it appears on the HDTV. The question is, if you do screen sharing to the Mac mini when the HDTV is NOT connected, what resolution will be shown on the shared screen... I'm guessing it will be something different than the HDTV screen resolution.
While you are doing screen sharing to the Mac mini with the HDTV is NOT connected, open System Preferences Displays pane Display tab. See if you can set it to the screen resolution to the HDTV screen resolution. That may not be possible, but if you can do it, then the resolution won't change when the receiver switches the connection, so maybe it won't do the flicker thing.

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