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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
I am still thinking something in the Extigy settings. My Sherwood did exactly what you described. Even showed no signal on the AC-3 channels and was just a setting for the receiver that made it happen. I am not familiar with the Extigy but the Sherwood has many presets and I know I can only run the optical AC-3 input stuff on a small group of the presets. If I try Theatre or Church no sound. Wish I could remember the output names that it does work with.
It is as though the Sherwood can do Optical AC-3 but only in certain modes. I have the 922 hooked up via audio & digital audio cables. The analog stations do not pass audio through the digital cable output of the 922 so if I am watching USA on G5 I have to switch the Sherwood to analog input for sound. All digital channels output through the digital audio cable.
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It sure seems like there should be some kind of setting, but I can't find one. From everything I can see in the settings the Extigy just talks about the
SPDIF input, but it doesn't ever mention optical or
coaxial, and it seems to just assume that they are the same... and for non-AC3, they do seem to be the same. There is a little light on the thing that lights up when it is seeing a signal on the SPDIF channel, but it doesn't light up on the
PBS channels with the optical input, and doesn't even light up with Montanna, even though it decodes the Montanna audio.
I upgraded the thing to the most recent computer software, but it apparently has the most current hardware firmware. I found a setting at the Soundblaster site which is supposed to turn on and off passthru of the SPDIF signal (passthru disables decoding), however the menu item described at the soundblaster site doesn't appear on my computer for some reason. I'm running the thing on a Win98 computer, so maybe I should load up the software on my Win2K computer or something. So it's possible that it is in a mode where the optical input is being passed thru rather than being decoded, but so far I haven't found any way to change that.
I have a couple old stereo components that do optical audio, but they are Pre-dolby 5.1, so they don't work. Anyway, as soon as the UPS man comes, I'll find out where the problem is.
BTW, I've found several cases where the blind search on the
Mercury does not find signals that I know are there... signals that the Ultra found. The Mercury does not have the setting that allows you to search for narrow or wide SR values, it only has the setting for "FULL". It is a menu item that looks like it should be changeable to narrow or wide, but it is grayed out, and the manual says that "Full" will always be used. I think this is why the Mercury isn't finding everything. The Ultra would miss things too, unless I scanned both in narrow and wide mode.