Hi guys,

I just recently bought the Western Digital HD Media Player. I have downloaded a video that requires Digital Audio as stated on the TV Screen while playing. However, there was no audio output from the movie, only visual output.

My configuration is a HDMI Cable from the player to TV. Audio cables from the player to my Yamaha home theather (the right and left jacks) for surround output.

Any solutions will be great. Thanks in advance.

i kesian u, never do proper research b4 beli
hopefully u know wat u bought

anyway, hdmi to tv, and i do pray ur yamaha home theater does have optical input with DD and DTS decoding. If ada, get another optical cable to output from ur wdtv to ur yammy

If I'm not mistaken, those L/R jacks do not provide (or get processed) by the DTS processor in the Yamaha.

What you need are the optical cables to connect to the AVR.

Check the rear of your WDTV and AVR to see if there is any Digital optical means of connecting

Cheers..I also realized that it should be done with optical cables. Thanks

This post has been edited by danekhoo: Apr 3 2009, 01:18 PM

if i'm not wrong, WDTV does not support DTS, only Dolby Digital.

thats why need optical cable...the signal will be process by the AVR (that if the AVR supports DTS)
Normal L/R cannot provide DTS signals...

But take note...there are some DTS bit rates from movies that are not supported...even though it is DTS..

For that you'll need a software converter:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/PopCorn_MKV_AudioConverter

Thanks. How much does a Optical cable cost? Exp or not..?

azbro, how can the dts still not be supported? even though it is dts?
can elaborate?

Sorry, bro..I'm not technically incline...I've 'a few' movies that are DTS...most play with sound..and a few no sound at all...I'm using 'digital in' cables connected to a Home Theater System. I know its DTS cause the HTS show 'DTS' on the display.
But if I play using PC...have sound.
After conversion, the sound is there. So, I really dunno what going on...maybe its the bit rate thinggy.
So far out of 10 DTS movies..sure got 2~3 no sound.

so is this the hardware wdtv issue? ur home theater or the source u dled?

Not sure..but I will take note of the nfo file regarding the Audio bitrates next time before dl

so far my AVR hav no problem playing all DTS audio files from WDTV..

Me too, no problem ...
I think the problem lay with your hardware

did u mean like this :

wdtv live ----->hdmi cable ----->LCD TV = to get video

wdtv live------> optical cable----->Yamaha AVR(via optical conection ) = to get sound DTS or Dolby Digital


pls, reply.

Yeah.,,,should be the case, unless your AVR also has a HDMI slot and can decode its sound, the it will be:
wdtv live ----->hdmi cable ----->AVR-------->hdmi cable ----->LCDTV

if you cannot hear a dts sound, yup, most probably because of the bitrate thingy.. the person who rip or encode the movie doesn't use standard bitrate value like everyone else.. that means, you/we have to redownload from other source/group.

So far I have no problem with wdtv playing dts sound. I have over 800 mkvs and most of them dts yet i never encounter for once the wdtv fail to play dts track.