cooknl
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I'm aware that ARC causes issues for many people, but so far I seemed to have escaped them, until now.
Until recently I had my E8 connected to an external amp (for speaker use) using the HDMI 2 port, which is the ARC connection. It connects to the dedicated ARC HDMI port on the amp. With SIMPLINK on I found that setting the TV's sound out to HDMI ARC worked as long as it was set to PCM. Auto didn't work.
However, some time last week I noticed that the sound out via ARC stopped working completely, irrespective of the setting or SIMPLINK use.
I haven't changed any settings on the TV or amp. I've hard booted both devices and unplugged and re-plugged the HDMI leads, but no success.
It's not a big issue as I've now connected the TV to the amp using Optical, and allocated the optical in on the amp to TV sound. It's just puzzling me that I now need to use an Optical connection whereas before it was fine with just the HDMI cable.
Any ideas?
I have recently bought a sound bar and is connected via Hdmi2 i also have a streamer box and a sat box all hooked up to hdmi ports. I found that when i disable arc/cec on the both external devices my sound works great and controlable from the tv remote. As soon as I enable ARC.CEC on either external device i get all kinds of problems with my sound,. So i just leave my externals arc/cec turned off and all works AS intended.