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| 1487793 | 2022-08-13 23:48:00 | One of my PCs I have decided to use as a media source attached to a Sony Bravia 55x9000h TV. The PC is an Asus P67 Sabertooth with a Gigabyte Windsong GTX970 GPU. I have attached an external drive containing music videos via an HDMI cable. My problem is that when playing a video clip I get a sound loss for about a second. This happens about 50 seconds to a minute after the start and continues to happen every 50 - 60 seconds thereafter. If I attach the PC to my Samsung monitor to be used as a PC and run the same clips, I have no sound loss. It seems that there is a problem of the PC talking to the TV but I have no idea about how to begin to try and fix this problem. Has anyone come across this problem and has been able to fix it? |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1487794 | 2022-08-14 01:17:00 | Is the Samsung monitor connected using the HDMI connection used on the Bravia, or have you reverted back to standard monitor connections? How is the Bravia connected to the PC if not HDMI? |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1487795 | 2022-08-14 01:26:00 | The Samsung is connected using HDMI but it is not the same cable used for the Bravia, that is another cable. The Bravia is connected by to the PC using HDMI. I think you might be suggesting I try another cable or a VGA. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1487796 | 2022-08-14 02:13:00 | Long shot... but maybe Power options on the media server? I have a similar issue with a cheap Panasonic TV connected via HDMI to a Soundbar. Every now and then the audio will cut out for a second, then resume as normal. Really disliking this so called 'smart' TV which seems to decide on it's own whether or not to feed audio to the soundbar. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1487797 | 2022-08-14 02:35:00 | "I think you might be suggesting I try another cable or a VGA" Yes, I don't think the cable is faulty but I have had choppy audio and other problems when using HDMI from PC to Tv in the past, try using VGA or anything other than HDMI, ie RGB plus audio. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1487798 | 2022-08-14 03:43:00 | The way its written it sounds ( no pun intended) like a bit of a mess. So the TV is connected to the PC Via HDMI (no problem there, std setup) that will carry audio and graphic BUT I have attached an external drive containing music videos via an HDMI cable., So where does the External drive plug into the TV or PC ?? HDMI carries both Audio and graphic, it sounds like there's a conflict somewhere between the Connections, as they both may be working as the main Carrier of audio. The External drive can be connected via several methods, doesn't have to be HDMI. Eg: USB, Ethernet etc. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1487799 | 2022-08-14 04:35:00 | Tried a new HDMI - no improvement. The Ext HDD is connected to to the PC. The TV doesn't have VGA. Tried connecting via the TV USB. It does work but with this model it takes and age to load into the TV memory - like up to 10 minutes. I have loaded the Ext HDD through a Sony Blu-ray player before but the remote is far from the best in controlling the Ext HDD content. How do I connect via the Ethernet? Like Paul, a sound bar is involved so I will disconnect that and see if it make a difference. Bloody poor if it does though. |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1487800 | 2022-08-14 04:57:00 | My setup has always had a couple of issues that I think are due to the way the PC and TV / Soundbar all talk to each other. Firstly the screen blanks (totally black) for a moment when I launch Disney+ or Netflix apps and again when I launch a video. Once playing it's fine. The other thing it does is constantly revert to stereo mode instead of 5.1 on startup, possibly due to the order I power things on. Also it sometimes reverts to the onboard realtek audio instead of the Nvidia HDMI audio and I have to reset it. I've just put these down to different generations of HDMI on various devices not working as well as they should or maybe a driver issue but it has persisted through different PCs and graphics cards and another Soundbar which only leaves the TV. You could try using an HDMI direct to the TV first and then feed sound back to the Soundbar via optical or ARC / eARC. Maybe I should try that too. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1487801 | 2022-08-14 05:07:00 | Thanks for that Dugi. What I left out was that I have and older PC that is Win10 (current one is Win11). The older PC has no problem producing the correct sound. Its GPU is a GT760 and connects direct to the TV. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1487802 | 2022-08-14 05:12:00 | If it helps I recently "upgraded" that PC from windows 10 to 11 and it made no difference, except to make the audio settings harder to find. | dugimodo (138) | ||
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