mopardave Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Can someone explain all the features or uses of ARC? I cannot get audio out of tv to external speakers using 1 HDMI cable hooked between receiver and tv ARC HDMI plug ins. Bluray works perfect. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 I just went through this a couple of hours ago with a new TV. When you say ARC, am I correct in thinking it is actually eARC and that both your TV and receiver have the feature? If so, make sure the audio output on your TV is set to PCM and make sure you are using an HDMI cable that is rated as High Speed. I just installed a Sony TV and had a hard time finding the proper menu item to set the audio output to PCM. Once I did that, though, everything worked great. The documentation supplied with the TV was absolutely worthless, and the information I found online gave direction using terminology that did not match anything in my TV menus. Such fun. Once you get it set up it will essentially let you control the volume of your audio system using your TV remote. At least, that's all I've ever been able to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopardave Posted March 26, 2022 Author Share Posted March 26, 2022 45 minutes ago, CWelsh said: I just went through this a couple of hours ago with a new TV. When you say ARC, am I correct in thinking it is actually eARC and that both your TV and receiver have the feature? If so, make sure the audio output on your TV is set to PCM and make sure you are using an HDMI cable that is rated as High Speed. I just installed a Sony TV and had a hard time finding the proper menu item to set the audio output to PCM. Once I did that, though, everything worked great. The documentation supplied with the TV was absolutely worthless, and the information I found online gave direction using terminology that did not match anything in my TV menus. Such fun. Once you get it set up it will essentially let you control the volume of your audio system using your TV remote. At least, that's all I've ever been able to do with it. Ok, should I leave the eARC set in auto? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopardave Posted March 26, 2022 Author Share Posted March 26, 2022 24 minutes ago, mopardave said: Ok, should I leave the eARC set in auto? Went thru HDMI trouble shooting and it says to use a better HDMI cable, i'm using a hi speed Monter HDMI now. PCM on and still no sound. May be easier to just buy a optical cable and be done with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 41 minutes ago, mopardave said: Went thru HDMI trouble shooting and it says to use a better HDMI cable, i'm using a hi speed Monter HDMI now. PCM on and still no sound. May be easier to just buy a optical cable and be done with it. The optical cable won't give you the ability to control everything with your TV remote, but you're probably right, and may even get better sound. And, yes, on mine, the eARC has to be set to auto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuzzzer Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 You have to enable CEC on each device, plus other settings possibly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 3 hours ago, wuzzzer said: You have to enable CEC on each device, plus other settings possibly. What is CEC? I'm running my TV through my Bluesound Node. I don't have to do anything special for settings on the Node, but had to set my TV to PCM audio output. I'm pretty sure I'm losing some of the audio features available through the TV, but the improvement in hearing dialog is worth it to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuzzzer Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 55 minutes ago, CWelsh said: What is CEC? I'm running my TV through my Bluesound Node. I don't have to do anything special for settings on the Node, but had to set my TV to PCM audio output. I'm pretty sure I'm losing some of the audio features available through the TV, but the improvement in hearing dialog is worth it to me. It's a setting that allows different components to communicate with each other through HDMI. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopardave Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 1 hour ago, CWelsh said: What is CEC? I'm running my TV through my Bluesound Node. I don't have to do anything special for settings on the Node, but had to set my TV to PCM audio output. I'm pretty sure I'm losing some of the audio features available through the TV, but the improvement in hearing dialog is worth it to me. I set most things to auto on the tv. PCM is also set to auto. I'm getting some garbled audio. I will try again tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 7 hours ago, mopardave said: I set most things to auto on the tv. PCM is also set to auto. I'm getting some garbled audio. I will try again tomorrow. Frustrating, isn't it? Sometimes you can find more complete information on the web than you can in the provided documentation, but even that can be challenging if they don't use the same terminology as the menus on the TV. I hope you find it worthwhile once you get it worked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopardave Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 8 minutes ago, CWelsh said: Frustrating, isn't it? Sometimes you can find more complete information on the web than you can in the provided documentation, but even that can be challenging if they don't use the same terminology as the menus on the TV. I hope you find it worthwhile once you get it worked out. Very much so. It seems like there may be a combination of settings to get it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 12 minutes ago, mopardave said: Very much so. It seems like there may be a combination of settings to get it right. When I first bought the Node, I connected it to a Samsung. This time it is to a Sony. In both cases, it was the PCM setting that made it work. It is possible that there were other settings along the way that made a difference, but I don't really think so. Also, from what I've read, the cable is critical. I bought mine on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SQN12ZN?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopardave Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 2 hours ago, CWelsh said: When I first bought the Node, I connected it to a Samsung. This time it is to a Sony. In both cases, it was the PCM setting that made it work. It is possible that there were other settings along the way that made a difference, but I don't really think so. Also, from what I've read, the cable is critical. I bought mine on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SQN12ZN?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details I found the issue with both Av receiver settings and tv settings. In tv settings both pcm and anynet+HDMI need to be on and tv needs to be set for receiver. Also make sure eARC is still on, then on receiver settings turn HDMI controls on. I had mine on AVR and it wouldn’t work like that. I now have tv audio thru speakers, but the sub signal seems weak, not as loud as when watching Blu-ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 2 hours ago, mopardave said: I found the issue with both Av receiver settings and tv settings. In tv settings both pcm and anynet+HDMI need to be on and tv needs to be set for receiver. Also make sure eARC is still on, then on receiver settings turn HDMI controls on. I had mine on AVR and it wouldn’t work like that. I now have tv audio thru speakers, but the sub signal seems weak, not as loud as when watching Blu-ray. I'm glad you've gotten it to work. I suspect every TV brand has a slightly different way of doing the set up. Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopardave Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 49 minutes ago, CWelsh said: I'm glad you've gotten it to work. I suspect every TV brand has a slightly different way of doing the set up. Congratulations! Yes and thanks. Movies on Wi-Fi and variable on acoustics and could be hi or lo on sub bass gain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBPK402 Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 ARC is the older version and EARC is the newer version. From my experience both have to be the same version.Sent from my SM-G985F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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