Hdmi to TV to surround sound??

I'm trying to hook a surround sound to my tv to play sound off an hdmi item but it seems like I can't get the hdmi connection to spit out audio to the surround sound system even though I have aux cords going in the audio space to the receiver. Is it because I can't have an hdmi converted to surround sound without a digital converter?

I don't know the brand off hand but I have an Xbox one hooked up to the tv and the video and audio come out of the TV now I'm trying get the audio to come out of a surround sound that's hooked up to the TV but no sound from the TV comes out unless it's in the av input like for my DVD player I've looked through the menu and it doesn't seem to have an external speaker that I can select for the av cables to play the sound out of the receiver unless it's on dvd. I'm trying to get the hdmi setting to come out on the surround sound

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