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garnaout
Contributor I
May 10, 2017
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Using Playbar for Home Cinema

  • May 10, 2017
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I got a screen projector and was hoping to use it to watch movies and leverage my Playbar (I have the whole system, Sonos 5.1 Home Theater System PLAYBAR, SUB, PLAY:1 Wireless Rears Combination) . I usually run my movies from my Mac. I cannot figure out for the life of me how I can use playbar as my Laptop sounds and it is getting very frustrating.

Ideally, I would like to transfer the Audio out wirelessly but reading on the forum it seems even if I hacked my Mac to do so, there will be a delay of 4-5 seconds which is not feasible when watching movies. The other option (which I don't like) is to use the cable directly but that also doesn't seem to work. I have bough a 3.5MM > Optical cable and I am still not getting any sound from the playbar. I tried this converter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011O0N0UQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) but didn't work.

Any thoughts? I am still very new to Sonos
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bichinda
Lyricist I
October 17, 2017
Thanks for all those tips, it's very useful. I have a similar problem :
Playing movies with my macbook pro through thunderbolt / hdmi converter to my videoprojector with optical output for sonos bar.
Unfortunately, when I plug the converter (as my videoprojector has only a stereo output), I can't send a 5.1 signal to my sonos system (player, sub and 2 x PLAY 1) only stereo one :-(
Am using this one not Flexson :
https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B0183FQAXO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Do you think it will male a difference ?
And I don't have an optical output on my mac...

Any suggestions ?

Thanks !!
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