HDMI and Optical Out

After the update I can not output audio to hdmi and optical audio at the same time. Anyone having the same issue? Did apple remove this functionality?

You and several thousand other people are having the same issue. Try leaving a Apple a bug report through their feedback link.
www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html

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Sync problems with ATV per HDMI and optical out

Have some sync problems with ATV (actual), TV is connected via HDMI, sound goes over optical cable into DAC (Rega) and then to the amplifier, when using only TV-sound everything is fine, switching to the external speakers brings up a little delay, around 1/10 second. Any chance to fix this?
Yogi

Welcome to the Apple Community.
I believe this delay is caused by the DAC, I don't think there is anything you can do about this.

Running HDMI and Optical to Denon Receiver for separate zones

I have the AppleTV (generation 2 I think) that I had setup in the following manner:
HDMI direct to Denon receiver for main room (both video and audio) - Zone 1
Optical audio to "Optical to RCA" converter then RCA cable to Denon for audio to patio - Zone 2
This allowed me to AirPlay music from my iPad to the AppleTV and output that audio to both zones at the same time. The added convenience was to carry my iPad around (in or out) to change music as needed. I hadn't used the patio speakers in a while but now notice it won't output to the patio (zone 2) speakers. I have double checked cabling, confirmed speakers work outside by changing to the radio tuner, etc. I have power to the Optical to RCA converter with a red light On. So my guesses are:
1) something has changed on the AppleTV not allowing output to both HDMI and Optical (new update make changes?)
2) possibly the converter isn't working although it is showing power and I have done nothing with that box since setting this up a couple of years ago
When I look into audio settings I see "auto" and 16bit for output, Dolby Digital auto, on, or off, but nothing that specifically calls out optical.
Any ideas?

Well, chalk one up for Alley_Cat. I went back to the drawing board and started playing around with various settings to see what I could find out. After playing around with the various listening modes, I noticed I could not get the receiver to play in "Stereo" mode in Zone 1 at all - everything coming from the center channel. Did some research and found I needed to push a button on the remote D/ST (Direct/Stereo..I think) and that fixed my Zone 1 issue. Thinking that would solve the Zone 2 issue, I checked those speakers and still nothing. After playing with it some more, I took one last look at the back of the receiver and noticed in my frustration earlier I put the RCA plugs in the "out" jacks and not the "in". Switched those and lo and behold worked again.
To be clear, the mis-aligned RCA jacks was not the original problem, and I cant say for sure it was the D/ST button because I tried a number of things before switching the jack locations...but it is fixed for now. Fingers crossed it will stay that way! Thanks.

How does apple tv2 switch between hdmi and optical

I have the ability to connect my Apple TV2 to my avr using both HDMI and optical......is there any benfit using the optical for lossless music as opposed to HDMI and if so how can I get apple tv2 to differentiate....or does it use HDMI as default if connected?

AFAIK, sound is sent simultaneously via HDMI and optical. mute the sound on your TV as necessary.

Simultaneous audio over HDMI and line out optical

Anyone know if this is possible on the new mini?
I currently use an AppleTV with HDMI to TV and optical digital to my older surround processor which does not accept HDMI.
AppleTV is useful in that it outputs audio simultaneously over all audio connections - I suspect new Mac Mini might only allow single audio output at a time.

MacProCT wrote:
Alley_Cat wrote:
...I assume by saying this you're implying you can deliver video over HDMI but audio over toslink through the line out i.e. audio out to non-HDMI destinations is not automatically disabled by an active HDMI connection...
Correct. You choose your audio output in the sound control panel (or Option-click on the sound icon in toolbar).
That's ideal then really.
...- that would then allow HDMI video to TV, toslink to AV processor, and analogue audio from AV processor to TV analogue audio in to use when you only need the audio via TV speakers...
I doubt the TV will take an analog audio in at the same time as HDMI video in. It likely only accepts analog audio on inputs that are also analog for video (component, s-video, composite).
You're right, unlilely to be configurable for HDMI, there might be the odd set that allowed something like this but in general most wouldn't.
...A small utility/script might be feasible to toggle between the two on the Mini...
Yes, entirely possible.
Another option would be to do what I do: Disable the TV speakers and use the receiver for all sound. Since TV speakers suck, this is a great option. I haven't used built-in TV speakers for at least 15 years.
I generally do that too, just sometimes for late night listening when others are in bed I switch to the TV speakers, but actually it'd be far easier with no TV audio as you'd not run into those instances when both TV and hi-fi are outputting and messing up the audio effect entirely.

Separate audio sources for HDMI and optical?

Hi there,
I'm setting up an Apple TV 2nd gen for my parents. I want to set it up in the following way:
How do I set it up so that when they're watching Netflix (or whatever), audio comes through HDMI, but when they're using airplay wirelessly with the iPad, audio comes through the optical cable? Currently, it's an all or nothing kind of thing... without the optical cable plugged in, EVERYTHING plays through HDMI. But when we plug in the optical cable, EVERYTHING plays through optical.
The way their A/V receiver is set up is that the HDMI port is on zone 1, where the speakers are in the bedroom, and optical is set up for zone 2, which goes to the speakers on the back porch, so obviously they don't want audio going out there when they're watching videos.

No, just that the sales guy at the Apple Store said this could be done. Ah well, pretty much par for the course for Apple products. They work how most people want them to work (or more specifically, how Steve wanted them to work), but the minute you need to do something that's slightly out of the ordinary, you're pretty much out of luck, because they give end users so little control over anything.

ATV2 Audio Problems on BOTH HDMI and Optical w/Denon

I know that it is a known issue that occasionally the ATV2 stops outputting audio over HDMI. But I'm having this problem over the optical out as well. I have it connected to a Denon 3808CI receiver, and it will work as expected for a couple days, they the audio will just go away and the only way to get it back is to unplug the ATV2, which is annoying.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Also, those of you with Denon receivers... can you chime in if you're having NO problems? Maybe I have a faulty unit...
Thanks!

I use a 4308 and never had audio trouble with either atv1 or2.

Will ATV 3 output from HDMI and Optical at the same time?

I'd like to use my apple TV to feed music to my main AV receiver while at the same time sending that same audio signal out the optical out connection to my other AV receiver that provides music to all of the rooms in my home. Right now it feeds the music to my main AVR via HDMI just fine but nothing to my other AVR.
Is this possible?

We've used an airport express since 'the beginning' - for years to get our Wifi from our cable modem in our garage while simultaneoulsy using it to output audio to a VERY old tuner in the garage. I have some nice outdoor Bose speakers connected to this setup which allows any mobile device wifi equiped to output any audio through my setup.... i.e. we usally use iTunes off our laptop while we are chilling outside. Perfect marriage of new school and old school technology.

[CLOSED] sound over hdmi and optical

Ok I know sound of hdmi is a pain for everyone but I've have been all over the wiki and Google and have yet to get mine working! The weird thing is... sound works in XBMC. I got movies with 5.1 sound and 2.0 sound to work as well as music and everything else (except sound effects on menu selections but i can live with them) by setting the audio device to Optical/Coax, speaker config to 5.1, enabling DD AC3 capable and setting both audio ouput device and passthrough output device both to hdmi. However it ONLY works in XBMC. I'm trying to get some emulators working and it doesn't work in them. it doesn't work in an lxde environment either or when I run:
speaker-test -c 6
If I can just get sound working over hdmi I would be happy, If I can get it to work over hdmi and the optical out both that would be even better (although I have a feeling that'll just make things harder).
Here's my soundcards listed with "cat /proc/asound/modules"
1 snd_hda_intel
2 snd_hda_intel
Here is my aplay -L ouput:
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
sysdefault:CARD=SB
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
I can get "speaker-test -D surround51:SB -c 6" to work but it's analog through 3 different 3.5mm jacks which apart from not being ideal, can't be hooked up to my surround sound system if I wanted it to.
Whenever I run "speaker-test -D iec958:SB -c 6" or "speaker-test -D hdmi:Generic -c 6" I get:
speaker-test 1.0.25
Playback device is iec958:SB
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Channels count (6) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument
Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument
(obviously for the hdmi the playback device line reads hdmi:generic but otherwise they're the same)
I've been all over the alsa page of the wiki. When I tried the settings under https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Al … DIF_Output they were already correct.
To anyone who's bothered to read all this ( I sorry it's so long I'm just trying to be thorough) Thank you!
If anyone has any clue what I can try to fix this I would be forever grateful.
Edit: Well it looks like all that messing around I did last night trying to fix things only made it worse. Now the sound in XBMC doesn't work either.
Last edited by Zarcjap (2012-03-21 12:33:48)

Hi!
I spent the day asking friend google, browsing the arch wiki, ubuntu wiki and xbmc wiki.
Lastly, I made it work. I have to admit that I don't know why and don't actually understand a thing of what I did, it was trial and error. However, here is what I did:
installed alsa-oss (probably irrelevant)
set the audio output settings in xbmc to "Audio output"="Optical/Coax", "Audio output device"="Defaults" and "Passthrough output device"="hdmi".
used the following as my .asoundrc
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
slave {
pcm "hw:0,3"
rate 44100
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
That's it. In case you are a sound guru willing to share your wisdom or else trying to make it work like I did, you might want some more info. Here you go.
Output of "cat /proc/asound/modules":
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_hda_intel
Output of "aplay -L":
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
sysdefault:CARD=SB
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
Output of "aplay -l":
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Hope it helps anyone out there. In case I stumble upon further problems regarding this hack, I'll post them here.
Regards
lightandshadow

Using HDMI and optical

Can HDMI be connected to TV and optical connected to separate stereo reciever? I want to have music sent to different receiver/speakers than home theater setup

I have a related question: same setup but I want to match the word length (bit depth) of the Atv optical output to the input of my DSP (Meridian 519). I can select the output word length as either 16bits or Auto, but my assumption is that the only feedback the Atv will get for auto is via HDMI, which is connected to the display... a separate device. Yes, I can select 16 on both, but I don't want to unnecessarily down sample the bit rate. OTOH, the display probably says 24bit is just fine.... provided the Atv can deliver that. Unfortunately, there is no auto detect on the Meridian. Just 16-24 in increments of 2.
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What bit rate is the Sony display (current 4k model) likely to be asking for via HDMI?
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Neometalrain wrote:
Sweet works now, thanks alot. Im new to using optical with sound cards so I dont complety understand them yet. Thumps up!
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I am trying to put audio to two different amplifiers 1) Surround sound and 2) stereo audio. Using HDMI connection to surround sound amp and trying to simultaneously use optical for audio to second stereo amplifier. NOt getting it to work and thinking the Apple TV box only drives one at a time. DOes anyone out there know?

It does both, I have OA to sound bar and HDMI to tv and get audio on both no problem. It is something on your set up. I think from your post both work but not at the same time? If you give a little detail it will help, but ATV does both audio outputs simultaneously and independently.

Using Airport Express to listen DVD via Front Row and Optical Out

I want to find out if this is possible:
I currently have Macbook Black Core 2 Duo. I enjoy watching DVDs using Front Row. The DVI video cable goes to the projector which is at the back of my room. Since the Macbook is close to the projector, I have to run optical audio cable to the 5.1 Dolby Digital home theater sound system at the front of my room.
I am interested in the AirPort Express because it can play iTunes wirelessly and use optical output to hook up the stereo system.
The question I want to know is if it's possible to connect Airport Express optical output into my Dobly Digital sound system so I can watch and listen DVD movies via Front Row? If not, any other alternatives? When searching through topics, it seems the users said Rogue Amoeba has a lag issue. Even I am not sure it can do optical output capabilites. Any thoughts. Thanks!
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