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Audio Sync issues with Playbar / Xbox One / Sony 900a Television - Can Sonos support 5.1 from tv?
Hi all, I'm a recent Sonos convert and have been extremely happy so far, adding a Play 5, Play 1, and now a Playbar + Sub. I've unfortunately had a horrific experience in trying to get the Playbar setup.
My setup is as follows - Sony KDL-55W900A television, TiVo Roamio that utilizes over the air digital signals, Xbox One.
The Roamio goes to the Xbox One, then the Xbox One to my television via HTML, then optical out to the Playbar.
This television is one that specifically has Dolby Digital 5.1 pass through.
I've spent 15+ hours on this and constantly scouring forums and looking for settings, but continue to have audio sync issues.
The audio delay setting in the software does not solve this, only makes it worse.
I've so far identified that it depends on the source - and sometimes different even in that source, and even do different variations of sync.
For example, I'm watching Seinfeld here on television and it's completely unwatchable - the audio clearly does not match mouth movement, 1-2 full seconds - the Roamio says the audio is Dolby Digital and so does the TV.
If I switch to ABS World News Tonight there are still issues, but it's about a second or a half out of sync. Switch to a commercial, it's better, but still not in sync.
Switch to Amazon Instant Video and an Episode of Mad Men and it's good, closest to 100% I've seen
Switch to Hannibal on Amazon Instant Video and it's decent, probably 85-90% in sync
Switch to Netflix, Californication, same as above. Same with Sens8, watchable but not 100%. Xbox Video is the same.
I was watching a Transformers Blu-ray, which uses Dolby True HD, and it is pretty much unwatchable. I put Transformers 2 which uses DTS-HD Master Audio and it's much better - which is strange because Sonos does not officially support DTS.
My Xbox is set to HDMI Bitstream out and Dolby Digital.
This is literally driving me insane and stressing me out, I'm half tempted to return every Sonos piece I have, has anyone else had this issue or can help me troubleshoot what component is causing the issue and/or how to fix? I've made sure my TV had the recommended settings for optical pass through.
Thanks all! Help!!
My setup is as follows - Sony KDL-55W900A television, TiVo Roamio that utilizes over the air digital signals, Xbox One.
The Roamio goes to the Xbox One, then the Xbox One to my television via HTML, then optical out to the Playbar.
This television is one that specifically has Dolby Digital 5.1 pass through.
I've spent 15+ hours on this and constantly scouring forums and looking for settings, but continue to have audio sync issues.
The audio delay setting in the software does not solve this, only makes it worse.
I've so far identified that it depends on the source - and sometimes different even in that source, and even do different variations of sync.
For example, I'm watching Seinfeld here on television and it's completely unwatchable - the audio clearly does not match mouth movement, 1-2 full seconds - the Roamio says the audio is Dolby Digital and so does the TV.
If I switch to ABS World News Tonight there are still issues, but it's about a second or a half out of sync. Switch to a commercial, it's better, but still not in sync.
Switch to Amazon Instant Video and an Episode of Mad Men and it's good, closest to 100% I've seen
Switch to Hannibal on Amazon Instant Video and it's decent, probably 85-90% in sync
Switch to Netflix, Californication, same as above. Same with Sens8, watchable but not 100%. Xbox Video is the same.
I was watching a Transformers Blu-ray, which uses Dolby True HD, and it is pretty much unwatchable. I put Transformers 2 which uses DTS-HD Master Audio and it's much better - which is strange because Sonos does not officially support DTS.
My Xbox is set to HDMI Bitstream out and Dolby Digital.
This is literally driving me insane and stressing me out, I'm half tempted to return every Sonos piece I have, has anyone else had this issue or can help me troubleshoot what component is causing the issue and/or how to fix? I've made sure my TV had the recommended settings for optical pass through.
Thanks all! Help!!