HDMI ARC Problems Solved! Connect a TV to an Audio System for Non -Techies (part 2 of 4).

Excellent and very clear advice. Found this video shortly after I fixed a problem you covered. Couldn't get my HDMI ports to work on my new Yamaha receiver connected to an older Panasonic plasma tv. Finally found that I hadn't connected the ARC HDMI ports, receiver to tv. Voila, got the beautiful new sound!

I bought the TENDAK ARC audio Extractor to get the audio from my new LG C4 48inch TV to my 90's RCA ports amplifier. I paid $80 AUD for the TENDAK. Unfortunetly I could not get the TENDAK to pass thru the sound to my Amplifier. I followed all the troubleshooting steps that you suggested. Nothing worked. I solved this problem by taking the sound out of the Headphone Jack (3.5mm) directly into the amplifiers AUX port. Then on the LG TV I selected Headphones iunder Audio Device. Everything just worked. So easy. This Headphone connection just cost $14 AUD

Your videos are SO GOOD and helpful!! As a non-techie it was so easy to understand! Thank you!!

Roger, thanks much, I would never have got my older stereo system to work with my Sony TV unless I had had watched the two videos. I bought the gadget you recommended to get the RCA jacks from the stereo to the TV working. The big problem was sorting the Sony system to get the CEC settings in the Bravia Sync. It was driving me crazy until I watched your video. Thanks again

Hi Roger, Great videos! I have a newer Samsung TV with eArc support as well as Arc and an old Onkyo receiver that I had in the garage gathering dust. I purchased an Arc extractor and hooked it up to my Onn 4k Pro streaming box to the Arc HDMI on the TV and from the RCA's on the extractor to the RCA's on the Receiver. I set the TV settings you recommended, and I have audio! The only problem is the TV remote doesn't control the volume. But when I try the volume controls with the remote, I can see the plus and minus levels on the left side of the screen but no effect on sound volume. I think I'm almost there but I'm missing something. Please advise. Thanks!!

I have a Denon soundbar and a fire stick tv. The system worked fine for a while but recently it randomly cuts out and refuses to play sound. There isn’t a consistent fix that I’ve found, but sometimes it will work if I switch back to my directTV box, but sometimes that won’t even work. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!

Thank you so much! It looks like our tv did lock the hdmi. We did move the reciever so we disconnected the hdmi cables couple times. This video did help us!

great video...turning everything off and waiting for ten mins worked...thanks me man I spent hours trying to work this out ...I have an old Yamaha rxv375 receiver and was wondering should I connect my Mac mini to the receiver or my 4k tv? any help would be much appreciated ...cheers

Watched your very helpful videos but can't figure out why my streaming apps still won't play through my stereo. When the tv is changed to the streaming apps can still hear the tv channel coming through my speakers even when the ARC port is not being used...driving me nuts. Tried every setting on the tv and receiver until I'm thorougly outdone. It's probably something simple but will wrestle with it another day. Didn't want to switch from my old tube tv because had it set up to work perfectly through my receiver but that tv finally died...may it rest in peace but being sorely missed at this point.

Hello Roger. I'm tearing my hair out. I have connected everything up but multiple reads of manuals for both and am still mystified. The thing that no-one seems to cover what settings need to be made and how to make the changes. I'm an old bloke so most of the settings have such arcane acronyms and names that I feel dumb.
I'm in Australia and have Kogan brand TV with bells and whistles. No idea what the TV engine is but suspect its a Samsung type. The Receiver is a Pioneer AV VSX-522 manufactured in 2013. All the cable types , HDMI (ARC & eARC), OPTIC and RCA, have been installed tested and not worked and then uninstalled. Cold boots and factory resets. Still nothing. The Receiver though old has never been used. It was given to me by an old friend still in its box as he could never figure out how to set it up.
I can't even get the Setup menu of the Receiver to show on my TV despite following the manual instructions to the letter.
I enjoy your you erudite instructional YT videos.
Please help if possible.
Many thanks if you can

Thank you so much for taking the time to address this things. Yes, I have an old Sharp sound bar with RCA outlets that I’m trying to listen to with my modern Sony Bravia. I’ll try editing these options see how it goes. Thanks for the video.

Thank you Thank you! My sound bar now works from my Samsung TV!

thanks I was able to cure my TV HDMI of
lock up

My LG TV (2022 model), Marantz 70’s receiver, Apple TV (2021 model) and Telenor T-We Set top box quarrel, turn each other on and off, steal the sound from each other and make my wife crazy. I get serious and angry after doing research, reading, testing and realky trying hard to make everything work. Why can’t the manufactores fix this together! 😩

Hi Roger I hope you are well I was hoping you could help me I have a hisense smart tv and connected it up via optic cable to my surround sound now the sound is coming through but it's very soft...but if I change the surround sound to fm or play Bluetooth it pumps ..any suggestions

The odd thing is the sound is at the receiver because I get it for the original room the tv is in, with surround… so it’s at receiver, but getting it from receiver to russound is what is not happening

Awesome

HDMI volume control is working via TV remote but sound is not coming through speaker and only through TV speaker. What could be the issue?

Just as informative, well made, and helpful as Part 1. Thank you!

SIR WHAT IF MY TV HAD NO HDMI-ARC ON IT AND MY AVR HAS, WHAT I AM SUPPOSED TO DO? THANKS SIR.

1 more Sir let me ask you again about my problem. Hope you can help me solve this. Recently, i bought Skyworth Tv 55 inch, but before i am using Panasonic TV 32 inches. My yamaha compatibly shows the settings on my Panasonic Tv. But when I tried to connect my yamaha to the Skyworth, the settings and other adjustments of my yamaha does not shows up at the Skyworth Tv. What i will do to enable the settings of yamaha avr to the screen of the skyworth? Sorry for my 1st comments which I wrote it in big letters.

⁠​⁠​⁠ hello again Roger, I’m sorry to disturb. I have purchased the audio extractor following the link but then realised my 5.1 Panasonic home cinema doesn’t have a 3 RCA ports but only a left and right audio (Aux) and also 3 component ports(out) which means i can’t get video out of its home cinema unless i connected another hdmi cable from tv to the back of audio system. One other issue is splitting the audio for my hearing aid device. I used to do that easily using a y cable from home cinema but doing that now get me very weak sound to my hearing aid i can barely hear.
I currently only managed to connect the tv via its Arc into audio extractor and only 2 RCA (audio L/R) in the extractor and home cinema. I get tv audio through my hifi but not the 2 rear speakers so not getting 5.1 surround asI should and also it doesn’t yet turn the hifi system on and off with tv remote. Also issue is if i decided to watch the hifi’s own dvd player it’s a nightmare because i have to use another hdmi to get video and lots of manual switching back and forth.
Is there any better way for my kind of system please? Even if it means buying some other adaptors. Can i bring the component ports into play somehow to make things better and simpler? Thank you so much for your valuable advice. Any solution really appreciated as i need to hear my tv through my hearing aid. 👍

I can connect my HDMI cable from my TV to my Yamaha RN1000 integrated amplifier. I need to know where to connect my TV box to the TV using another HDMI cable.

I have a Sony 2009 tv there is 4 hdmi but none of them say arc where can I plug in the

Nice series of videos. Your voice reminds me of Philip from Mr. Robot... the CEO guy.

I heard someone say that instead of the simple HDMI to RCA conversion adapters in this video, someone can purchase a full-fledged DAC... because that is what those little adapters are... DACs. Although I have my doubts as to the usefulness of the over-the-top versions... They are meant for music. Not sure if they would be helpful with TV dialog that much.

You’re using your gifts and talents to help others. Way to go!❤🎉

Thank you for the advice the inputs were immensely helpful and help me connect my 14 year old Bose home theatre system with my Sony TV. Much appreciated

A problem I have is that my soundbar goes into the standby mode randomly while watching a video or doing anything else on the tv and my rear surround speakers don’t work with optical audio

I have totally different problem... My Samsung TV (most of the time) won't turn on when Sonos Beam 2 are plugged in via eARC. If I unplugg it then I can turn on tv, then I can connect hdmi and it works... Until I turn off TV again

I have an LG tv, I have an Apple TV in hdmi 1, my sound bar in hdmi2/arc and a firestick in hdmi3. This setup worked fine for a year and then all the sudden 1 day the sound bar totally quit working if anything is plugged into the hdmi3 port. I’ve done some troubleshooting, all my cables are good, the firestick and Apple box works fine in hdmi3 without the sound bar/arc being used. The sound bar/arc quits even if I just plug the firestick in to hdmi 3 and leave the power to the firestick off. If I only use hdmi 1 and the sound bar in hdmi 2/arc things are fine but if I I plug anything into hdmi 3 it stops the sound bar from working. Any suggestions?

I have a Philips Roku TV, only 6 mo old. I had a Logitech THX speaker hooked to it through the headphone jack on the back of the TV. The tip of the headphone jack broke off inside the jack on the TV. Tried a converter with optical wire to the speakers, didn't work, I wound up with audio out of only the tweeters and not the woofer and I couldn't control the volume.. Going to try HDMI tomorrow instead of optical but it's my last try as I'm over a week into this. No one can figure it out. Tons of wires tons of stores and almost $100 in converters and wires and it's a mystery. If only I could yank the piece stuck in the headphone jack it wouldn't be a circus like this. It just should never be this difficult. It literally made my BP spike.

Youre awesome I did everything u said and it worked I've had a nice sub I couldn't use for over a year and now it works great thank you so much

my Samsung TV works great with my Yamaha surround sound BUT if I plug in a recorder box it mess it up firrestick works ok as well ????

Hi Roger, is there anyway to get a message directly to you and hopefully get a response? I’ve got some questions about some active speakers. I’d like to hook up Wi-Fi to a nebula projector using arc. 🤔 Scott

I think this is the most helpful and well done video I have seen in years. You covered everything - including equip incompatibility which no one mentions. Thanks

I have done every you have suggested (but not used an optical cable yet) still nothing from the sound bar although believe it or not sound testing works yet watching TV or a DVD the sound bar works for about 30 seconds then on the TV screen up comes a label saying "TV speakers are now in active Audio Communication System Failure" Ever come across that before?

Got my Sony TV to work for about 5 seconds then it says “external audio unavailable” and switches back to TV Speakers

hi i got a question. so i got a pretty old tv where no „arc“ can be seen with near my hdmi inputs/outputs. i dont know much about that tech stuff i just want some good sound so i was wondering how i could connect a soundbar and subwoofer with my old tv because i thought about wishing for that as a christmas present

I have LG smart TV and a port labelled HDMI1(ARC). I couldn't find ARC Audio extractor. So I bought HDMI to AV converter, it didn't work. They showed me HDMI video converter. Please is it same with ARC Audio Extractor?

We have a new Samsung Du7200d. I have a Bose system that has the Digital, Audio output. Can I use this system with the Samsung?

Hi Roger. Liam here in Ireland. Great video. I have a HDMI to HDMI converter with 3.5 jack. optical pin and red and white pins. I am trying to connect a headphone system that is not bluetooth. The base unit connects to the tv then multiple headphones can connect to the base unit wirelessly. there are two HDMI ports on the converter HDMI out and HDMI in. I have tried both but no luck. I made all the changes required on the tv but nothing works. any suggestions

That tip about reseting the sound settings on samsung TVs saved me ! thanks

Hello, I bought a sound extractor (Delock 63332)and it didnt solve my problem (no sound from LG UR8100 tv on 5 MA Bronze speakers connected to Denon 2113 receiver). the sound is always reverted to tv internal speakers. I tried all connections, verified all cables - they are ok, HDMI cables are new. The receiver cannot be updated anymore, the tv has updated software. Isnt the extractor supposed to bypass the hdmi connections so I can listen to the external 5 speakers? What to do? Thank you for your help.

@rogergadgetguy what if we have speaker wires from old bose outdoor speakers and can’t find an adapter to convert this to connect to smart tv? What options do we have?

@rogergadgetguy what if we have speaker wires from old bose outdoor speakers and can’t find an adapter to convert this to connect to smart tv? What options do we have?

@rogergadgetguy what if we have speaker wires from old bose outdoor speakers and can’t find an adapter to convert this to connect to smart tv? What options do we have?

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