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How to get HDMI out to work with my AV system?

I want to be able to use the HDMI out on my EVO to view video on my TV.
Here's the problem....I have a Pioneer 50" Kuro which is a display only (no speakers). I have a HD cable box running an HDMI to the Plasma, with an audio cable running to my Receiver. I have a PS3 with an HDMI running to the Plasma, with an optical audio line running to the Receiver. I have an Orb audio 5.1 connected to the Receiver.
Question is...how the heck do I hook up my EVO so it plays audio along with video?
I'm not sure how to go about doing this.

Simple Answer: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004Z5CP/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00005T3GH&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=15T6RQK2SHVM3M8M76P3
that would do it. good luck!

Does your tv have an *audio out* on it?

SilverStone641 said:
Simple Answer: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004Z5CP/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00005T3GH&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=15T6RQK2SHVM3M8M76P3
that would do it. good luck!
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That would work wouldn't it.......thanks!!

thegame3202 said:
Does your tv have an *audio out* on it?
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Yes it does....but it isn't connected to speakers. The speakers are running threw my receiver.

Connect audio out from tv to receiver and call it a day

Fire tv + Netflix & Dolby digital plus

Anyone else having issues with this? Short story is im not getting DD+ through netflix/amazon, yet will get DTS/DD through xbmc.
Im having issues with dolby digital plus and my fire tv. I have a new LG home theater system BH9530TW. Ive set the firetv audio settings to play dolby digital plus over hdmi and have the firetv plugged into the receiver, the receiver is set to multi channel pcm. When ever i play a netflix or amazon prime movie with 5.1 i get no sound, i have to change it back to stereo for any sound. Ive tested xbmc and get DD and DTS through movies on that, i don't have any DD+ files to test that, im not sure if xbmc will passthrough DD+ anyway.
Taken from the specs of the receiver:
Audio - LPCM
Audio - Dolby Digital
Audio - Dolby Digital Plus
Audio - Dolby TrueHD
Audio - DTS
Audio - DTS-HD High Resolution Audio
Audio - DTS HD-Master Audio
Audio - MPEG 1/2 L2
Audio - MP3
Audio - Audio - ID3 Tag
Audio - MMA
Audio - AAC
Audio - FLAC

Strange, I can confirm that my Onkyo properly plays Dolby Digital + from Amazon and Netflix. I also have no trouble with DD or DTS via XBMC. My FireTV is connected the same way yours is, via HDMI straight to the receiver.

jeebuspwnz said:
Strange, I can confirm that my Onkyo properly plays Dolby Digital + from Amazon and Netflix. I also have no trouble with DD or DTS via XBMC. My FireTV is connected the same way yours is, via HDMI straight to the receiver.
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Damn, i was hoping it was an issue with the firetv lol. Must be a receiver issue, hopefully a firmware update may resolve it in the future. I will test it with an optical cable and see if i can atleast get DD 5.1 out of it that way. The "virtual" surround it produces is extremely good however and i may stick to that yet.

Af tv optical dd
garvani said:
Damn, i was hoping it was an issue with the firetv lol. Must be a receiver issue, hopefully a firmware update may resolve it in the future. I will test it with an optical cable and see if i can atleast get DD 5.1 out of it that way. The "virtual" surround it produces is extremely good however and i may stick to that yet.
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Is not your receiver, AFTV DD over optical doesn't work.

I have an LG 7540tw home theater and DD+ doesn't work for me too. What I did was set the dolby digital plus setting to Auto for the Fire TV, so now the receiver plays DD 5.1 which is downmixed from the DD+ 5.1 of Netflix thru HDMI, I don't have an optical cable connected from the fireTV to the receiver. There are others with this issue too, but I cant find the amazon forum's link anymore

DD+
I ran in to this with Netflix from a Roku3 via HDMI to a 54" Vizio 5.1 sound bar. All issues with DD+ involve whether or not something in line can decode it. Also, DD+ is HDMI only so Digital Coaxial or Optical won't work either. I came to FireTV as it will output DD via Optical which my soundbar will handle. The Vizio sound bar only is capable of DD and DTS. DD+ results in silence.
To do DD+ you need an AVR that decodes it.
BTW, I do not recommend the Vizio sound bar. It does do rear surround and sub-woofer via bluetooth which works well. The downside is that it has only one HDMI input and supports only DD and DTS. I bought it as I didn't want to drill my new house. By the time I paid $500 for it, $50 for an HDMI switch, and $100 for AFTV I would have been much better off buying a more capable traditional AVR system for much less money.

ars_92 said:
I have an LG 7540tw home theater and DD+ doesn't work for me too. What I did was set the dolby digital plus setting to Auto for the Fire TV, so now the receiver plays DD 5.1 which is downmixed from the DD+ 5.1 of Netflix thru HDMI, I don't have an optical cable connected from the fireTV to the receiver. There are others with this issue too, but I cant find the amazon forum's link anymore
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I will have to give this a try, i would have thought i had already but possibly not. DD5.1 is adequate enough.
To clear things up i have the AFTV connected to the receiver via hdmi in, then receiver connected to my projector via hdmi out. I only mentioend optical as possible alternative.

schneid said:
To do DD+ you need an AVR that decodes it.
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Its not that simple either as my AVR has support for DD+ but ends in silence as well. Theres something weird going on there, im glad im not the only one with the issue.

garvani said:
Its not that simple either as my AVR has support for DD+ but ends in silence as well. Theres something weird going on there, im glad im not the only one with the issue.
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Have you tried another HDMI cable?

garvani said:
Its not that simple either as my AVR has support for DD+ but ends in silence as well. Theres something weird going on there, im glad im not the only one with the issue.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but if you have your AVR set to multi channel PCM, doesn't that assume the FTV will do the decoding (which it can't). Shouldn't you be sending the DD+ as passthrough for the AVR to decode?

bruce7373 said:
Maybe I'm missing something, but if you have your AVR set to multi channel PCM, doesn't that assume the FTV will do the decoding (which it can't). Shouldn't you be sending the DD+ as passthrough for the AVR to decode?
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I agree, FTV decodes nothing. An AVR of some sort that has paid the licensing fee must be in the mix. If the AVR is DD+ rated, I'd take a hard look at the HDMI cables. Don't have to be expensive but do need to be capable of handling the standard being pushed through them.

[Q] Does the amazon fire tv work with bluetooth headphones?

I want to know if its possible to pair some bluetooth headphones with the fire tv since it does have bluetooth? I would be nice to be able to watch a movie using bluetooth headphones with the unit. Only makes sense that this should be a feature.

biglo said:
I want to know if its possible to pair some bluetooth headphones with the fire tv since it does have bluetooth? I would be nice to be able to watch a movie using bluetooth headphones with the unit. Only makes sense that this should be a feature.
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Did you ever get this to work? If so, how did you do it? Roommates are complaining about my late night tv watching habits.

biglo said:
I want to know if its possible to pair some bluetooth headphones with the fire tv since it does have bluetooth? I would be nice to be able to watch a movie using bluetooth headphones with the unit. Only makes sense that this should be a feature.
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Yes if you install the Android Settings.apk you can make the FireTV pair with bluetooth audio devices. However with both devices I tried, a headset and a speaker, there's horrendous audio lag that makes it basically unusable. I guess I'll just wait for official support from Amazon.

sadboyzz said:
Yes if you install the Android Settings.apk you can make the FireTV pair with bluetooth audio devices. However with both devices I tried, a headset and a speaker, there's horrendous audio lag that makes it basically unusable. I guess I'll just wait for official support from Amazon.
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Dang that sucks, this thing really needs a be update now because so far it's missing a lot of things.
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Have you used the audio offset feature to correct the lag ? I had to use it to correct the lag while using my Ouya and a Bluetooth enabled powered PA speaker.

biglo said:
Dang that sucks, this thing really needs a be update now because so far it's missing a lot of things.
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There's a good chance the next update will come June 18th when Amazon reveals their smartphone. I would expect the Fire TV will need to be updated in order to interact with the phone.

27scoob said:
Have you used the audio offset feature to correct the lag ? I had to use it to correct the lag while using my Ouya and a Bluetooth enabled powered PA speaker.
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It's not a constant lag on the firetv, lag increases the longer you play something.

All you need to do is connect a USB Bluetooth receiver that often comes with the headphones and pair it with that directly. Get a multi-USB hub so you can connect various other things to it also. I'm using everything with the USB port like air mouses etc. and all work perfectly and it doesn't require any settings or rooting.

where to get a working settings.apk ?

I used settings.apk to pair my headphones. Music plays just fine. However playing an .mkv video thru XBMC-Kodi did not work at all. I just got really loud static -- I guess there was a problem with the dts audio. Knowing there was an audio lag anyway, I didn't mess with the XBMC setting to downmix.

Cross posting from the bigger thread...
I successfully paired my bluetooth headset using settings.apk method - thanks!
However - Bluetooth only puts audio out of my headset for SIDELOADED apps - but not apps from FireTV's app sources, i.e. NETFLIX. (I even confirmed by installing NETFLIX and sideloading NETFLIX - audio comes out differently ...)
Does anyone else experience this?
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Anyone?

Bumping an old thread.
Why is Bluetooth working so well wire AFTV now? Not complaining, just wondering.
Xbmc contained apps are still delayed but native apps are perfectly synced...

Karaoke Microphones

has anyone gotten karaoke mics to work with Firetv? would love to get it going if its possible to use it on firetv
mics i've tried:
singstar ps2
usb logitech
neither work and produce no sound from the mics while plugged into the usb port of firetv
or am i missing a step and need a mixer in between firetv and receiver? if anyone has set this up, would love to hear from you. thanks!

Are you able to play MP3+Gs using the Karaoke settings?
When I try to launch a MP3+G in XBMC on the Fire TV it crashes and takes me back to Amazons GUI. If you've got it working I am wondering which version of XBMC you are using on your AFTV.
For microphones, I was using a mixer with my HTPC and 2 XLR microphones. I ended up blowing my centre speaker this way, microphones and home theater speakers are not the best paired. Since migrating to AFTV, if I can get XBMC to play karaoke files I plan on getting a cheap PA speaker set (Mackie SRM150) and running the mics independant of my home theater which will just play the music with lyrics on the TV thus bypassing the AFTV for vocals all together.
Cheers
scorched03 said:
has anyone gotten karaoke mics to work with Firetv? would love to get it going if its possible to use it on firetv
mics i've tried:
singstar ps2
usb logitech
neither work and produce no sound from the mics while plugged into the usb port of firetv
or am i missing a step and need a mixer in between firetv and receiver? if anyone has set this up, would love to hear from you. thanks!
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scorched03 said:
has anyone gotten karaoke mics to work with Firetv? would love to get it going if its possible to use it on firetv
mics i've tried:
singstar ps2
usb logitech
neither work and produce no sound from the mics while plugged into the usb port of firetv
or am i missing a step and need a mixer in between firetv and receiver? if anyone has set this up, would love to hear from you. thanks!
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I see this thread went far. Anyone have any updates? I'll be checking my rockband mic from 360 in the next few days (moved and have to dig it out first)... presumably if you have the karaoke settings on it may just work?
If anyone knows about dual mic/usb hubs working with mics too that'd be sweet.
Otherwise I'll invest in this mixer situation, anyone have any that work?

Want Audio on Android device But Not on TV

I want to listen on my Android Samsung Note 9 but want no sound on TV. Can Chromecast 2 do that?

even i wanna know the answer to that

cranberry_vanilla said:
even i wanna know the answer to that
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Good luck on getting an answer. I wasted my time even posting the question.

Well, a Chromecast Audio device will NOT do that. If you want to cast audio only, with no video, then Chromecast Audio will work for you.

Note10.1Dude said:
Well, a Chromecast Audio device will NOT do that. If you want to cast audio only, with no video, then Chromecast Audio will work for you.
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I want to be able to watch TV on chromcast without waking up the entire household.

OK, different device (Chromecast Audio is a no-longer-sold specific device that cast audio with no video). Your question would be more appropriate to the general Chromecast forum, but I think the answer will depend on what you are casting to. Does your TV have bluetooth? best option I can think of would be to use bluetooth headphones or a speaker linked to the TV.

GigiR said:
I want to be able to watch TV on chromcast without waking up the entire household.
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It doesn't appear that you understand my question. Chromecast streams to my cell phone and I want to be able to watch on the cell phone with no sound but with the video so that I do not wake up the whole household or I would like to be able to watch chromecast on my TV but worth no sound so I don't wake up the whole household

Right, and a Chromecast Audio will not do that. It only lets you cast audio, not video.
What you need is a regular Chromecast on the TV, then cast your video to the TV, but you sound output from the TV needs to go someplace. My suggestion was to connect bluetooth headphones to the TV and listen through them. You could run an audio could run and audio out cable from the TV to headphones or a small speaker near you if the bluetooth doesn't work for you. Chromecast Audio will NOT solve your issue.