The "official" Yamaha RX-V671 thread. 7.1-Channel Network AVR - Page 27

Originally Posted by Blackbeen

I just got the Yamaha RX-V671 in yesterday & a couple of things are bugging me right off.

1: why does it seem to disable the internal speaker of the TV? I like to listen to music while monitoring TV in the background & this is a major setback, I can set it to play from the CD player or other source during video play but w/o TV audio because of this.

2: Whenever I change from any given source to TV the picture flashes for a couples seconds right after the picture comes on screen, this is MASSIVELY annoying.

Does anyone happen to know of a resolve fore these issues?.

Edit: OK I found out I needed to enable HDMI audio in settings to get the TV speaker to work but UNFORTUNATELY, now it just plays the same audio feed (music) through the TV speakers rather than TV audio. :-/

Originally Posted by rdgrimes

These are not "issues", but normal HDMI behavior. Is this your first HDMI setup?

Originally Posted by Blackbeen

No, not exactly, I've had HDTV, set top, box & HD cable since 2007, 1st HDMI tuner though, I suppose I'll have to just run the HDMI cable directly into the TV, as I have been doing, rather than the tuner to get around this, but is it too much to ask that the TV would be able to play whats on the screen rather than the audio that is playing on the tuner? I mean if the video source can be alternated why not the audio???
Plus I've NEVER had this video glitching issue before, switching between video sources on my TV its not just right at the device change as might be expected, its a few seconds after the picture is displayed & seems really sloppy.

Originally Posted by rdgrimes

If you set the AVR to send audio over HDMI to the TV, you will be locked to 2-ch audio in the AVR due to HDMI handshakes with the source device.

Originally Posted by musiccitychad

I have read all I can about this. Seems there has not been a final resolution.

Issue: TV Scene button defaults to AV4 for audio. I don't have anything hooked up to AV4 so there is no sound.

I don't want to use AV4 as the audio input. I want to use the HDMI2 input to run Video and Audio. Why would I want to use optical cable from TV or from Cable Box? I should be able to just run 1 HDMI cable from Cable Box to AVR. As far as the ARC, I don't feel I should have to run HDMI from TV ARC to AVR. This sounds like an extra signal transfer to me. I should be able to go Cable Box > AVR > TV with 1 HDMI sending the Video and Audio, not Cable Box > AVR > TV > AVR.

Quick Fix: I press the TV Scene button and it goes to HDMI2 video and AV4. Pressing the TV Scene button a 2nd time will direct audio to HDMI. This works, but I shouldn't have to press anything else once I press the TV Scene button.

Request for final solution: TV Scene button needs the option to select Audio HMDI inputs so I can set up Audio and Video to go directly to HDMI2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Originally Posted by cbhpi

Exception: If CEC is set up and working properly (some posters report trouble with Samsung displays), multichannel will be achieved in the AVR when set to send audio over HDMI to the TV.

Addendum: I'm off today with nothing better to do, so I disabled CEC on both my AVR (V867) and my televisions (Panasonic and Sony) and tested whether multichannel will be achieved in the AVR when it's set to send audio over HDMI to the TV. With the following parameters, Dolby Digital is displayed on the AVR's front panel and on the television's screen through AVR's OS menu:

AVR: audio over HDMI enabled (both outs), CEC disabled, "straight" processing, latest AVR firmware;
Panasonic: Audio set to allow through tv's speakers and CEC disabled;
Sony: Same as Panasonic;
Source: Directv;
Programming: Some show with a Dolby Digital soundtrack.

Clearly, with my setup, I'm achieving multichannel in the AVR with audio set to be sent via HDMI to the televisions, even without CEC activated (which makes my initial reply incorrect). I'm hopeful that someone will be able to explain this behavior, because I can't. Are results dependent on the model AVR, firmware update, make of television, or what?

Originally Posted by cbhpi

First, ensure that HDMI 2 is selected as your audio source under the AVR's input settings. See pages 79 and 80 of your OM. Then, power up the AVR, press the HDMI 2 button on your AVR remote, select sound parameters, and then press and hold the TV scene button until there is an indication on the AVR's front display panel that the scene button settings have been set.

Originally Posted by Blackbeen

Regarding the "black screen by design" rdgrimes mentioned I thought I made it clear that the screen glitch occurred well post the handshake after the screen clearly displayed the present channel feed.

Originally Posted by Blackbeen


2: Whenever I change from any given source to TV the picture flashes for a couples seconds right after the picture comes on screen, this is MASSIVELY annoying. :-/

Originally Posted by vzDean1600

I was able to get rid of the picture flash, by setting the receiver to stop checking monitor resolution, and manually inputing the res.
Hope this helps,
Dean

Originally Posted by Blackbeen

Thanks, I'll give this a try if it becomes an issue with the Popcorn Hour C-200.
Another thing that really bugs me is that Zone 2 is only analog, why would you make a channel non-digital??? My set up is in the living room & I have a set of speakers in the dinning area room for listening when in kitchen or bathroom so having Zone 2 was a major perk that I was looking forward to having, just about all my audio content is digital (CD or PC on HDMI connection), my main PC is still XP, so I can't use it to stream. I've been slow to move to 7 as the setup is a bear of a migration as I have it, but this is another reason to push a move I guess.

Originally Posted by wthomas69

Zone 2 only analog?????????, I have been listening to pandora on zone 2 since getting the 671 two weeks ago

Originally Posted by wthomas69

How do they consider pandora analog

Originally Posted by wthomas69

Then at this point it is simply a case or wording, the the manual should state no hdmi sources in zone 2

Originally Posted by finding Z zero

wi-fi notebook (Asus, winXP) connected to RX-V671 with ethernet cable

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Wondering why this doesn't work. When I call up PC under input it says no content. Should this work or am I delusional. The other choice would be a 25' ethernet cable to go from receiver to router. Or is it that WinXP is not compatible, only Win7? The notebook shows a strong wireless connection (54 mbps) and a second local area icon (100mbps) with no connectivity possibly because it is unable to acquire a network address. Are there some settings I'm missing.