winterone
Novice Member
Hi All
Been tearing my hair out with this one and even tried the LG chat support for 2hrs and getting to number 1 in the queue and then they logged off
I'm trying to sort out some form of easy way to play my DTS content both files and BR's on a HTPC
My setup (before i realised eARC wont carry DTS)
CX
HDMI 1 PC/HTPC
HDMI2 SN11RG for eARC all working (except DTS GRRRRRR!!!!!)
HDMI 3 PS5
SN11RG just eARC
I use my windows based HTPC for playing BR discs and BR rips i have made over the years but just recently have discovered that my easy set up of everything going into the TV causes issues for anything with DTS which is suprisingly a lot especially older titles, i have it setup this way as it saves me messing around with 2 remotes to change two inputs and i seem to remember reading that it's better to plug the PS5 into the TV
In order to get around this i hooked up the optical from the HTPC to the soundbar thinking when i needed to play DTS i could just switch the output on the HTPC but when i try to select optical on the soundbar it I get no sound and the soundbar goes back to showing EARC on the display, the realtek manager recognises the optical cable plugged in and I have changed the output but still nothing, optical cable is good and confirmed working on other kit.
My question after all that is, is it possible to have the soundbar still connected via eARC for 95% of things and switch to optical or does the soundbar notice it's got an eARC connection and overrides the optical, i also turned off eARC on the TV when trying this.
Also is there a better way of doing this, i tried connecting the HTPC into the soundbar and it works even with DTS but i just don't want to run it this way for a number of reasons and it could be my eyes but the colours looked a little washed out.
Been tearing my hair out with this one and even tried the LG chat support for 2hrs and getting to number 1 in the queue and then they logged off
I'm trying to sort out some form of easy way to play my DTS content both files and BR's on a HTPC
My setup (before i realised eARC wont carry DTS)
CX
HDMI 1 PC/HTPC
HDMI2 SN11RG for eARC all working (except DTS GRRRRRR!!!!!)
HDMI 3 PS5
SN11RG just eARC
I use my windows based HTPC for playing BR discs and BR rips i have made over the years but just recently have discovered that my easy set up of everything going into the TV causes issues for anything with DTS which is suprisingly a lot especially older titles, i have it setup this way as it saves me messing around with 2 remotes to change two inputs and i seem to remember reading that it's better to plug the PS5 into the TV
In order to get around this i hooked up the optical from the HTPC to the soundbar thinking when i needed to play DTS i could just switch the output on the HTPC but when i try to select optical on the soundbar it I get no sound and the soundbar goes back to showing EARC on the display, the realtek manager recognises the optical cable plugged in and I have changed the output but still nothing, optical cable is good and confirmed working on other kit.
My question after all that is, is it possible to have the soundbar still connected via eARC for 95% of things and switch to optical or does the soundbar notice it's got an eARC connection and overrides the optical, i also turned off eARC on the TV when trying this.
Also is there a better way of doing this, i tried connecting the HTPC into the soundbar and it works even with DTS but i just don't want to run it this way for a number of reasons and it could be my eyes but the colours looked a little washed out.