- Messages
- 10,522
- Name
- Suz
- Edit My Images
- Yes
Because the newer appletvs don't have digital out I've been trying to sort out an alternative before mine dies.
HDMI ARC is supposed to extract the audio and pass it out to another device eg a dac. But it doesn't work for some reason. Or at least it doesn't work on my older appletv. It still has the digital out.
Tv has hdmi arc enabled. No sound at all comes out via the optical out on the audio extractor. It works as normal via the tv. Picture on tv is fine and the digital out on the tv works fine. The digital out on the audio extractor is producing sod all. Not even the menu beeps.
It's not a good solution anyway as I don't particularly want the tv in when listening to music. At the moment the appletv works perfectly by its own digital out but as it's no longer updated in software it will probably stop working altogether at some point. The logical replacement is a newer one and using the hdmi arc facility.
Third party streamers like the Yamaha one I have done appear as a separate library in the iOS Remote app so they seem to use the iPad as a relay and slow it down quite a bit.
Anyone got ARC working with an older appletv or has it working with a current generation one with the tv in standby rather than fully on?
Or is there a trick with musicast devices to behave more like the appletv and stream directly? I can't use my appletv to stream both to its output and to the musicast device I have at the same time. That might fudge it if I can find one with a digital optical out if newer appletvs can.
HDMI ARC is supposed to extract the audio and pass it out to another device eg a dac. But it doesn't work for some reason. Or at least it doesn't work on my older appletv. It still has the digital out.
Tv has hdmi arc enabled. No sound at all comes out via the optical out on the audio extractor. It works as normal via the tv. Picture on tv is fine and the digital out on the tv works fine. The digital out on the audio extractor is producing sod all. Not even the menu beeps.
It's not a good solution anyway as I don't particularly want the tv in when listening to music. At the moment the appletv works perfectly by its own digital out but as it's no longer updated in software it will probably stop working altogether at some point. The logical replacement is a newer one and using the hdmi arc facility.
Third party streamers like the Yamaha one I have done appear as a separate library in the iOS Remote app so they seem to use the iPad as a relay and slow it down quite a bit.
Anyone got ARC working with an older appletv or has it working with a current generation one with the tv in standby rather than fully on?
Or is there a trick with musicast devices to behave more like the appletv and stream directly? I can't use my appletv to stream both to its output and to the musicast device I have at the same time. That might fudge it if I can find one with a digital optical out if newer appletvs can.