Link Speaker – no video sources

[CharlieWednesday]

I’m hoping this is just a(nother) thing I don’t know but is common knowledge for the experts here!

I cannot get the sound from video sources to play through my Beolab 3500 speaker.  Audio sources are fine, but none of the video sources which are connected to my Beosystem 3 via HDMI.

It only seems to  be the HDMI sources – I have an HDR2 connected as AV1 via SCART and I can get that sound via my BL3500, and I have also tested an audio source connected to the RCA inputs on AV4 and that works too, but none of the 4 HDMI sources will play through theBL3500.

Is this some kind of restriction with HDMI sources perhaps?

Note, My Beosystem 3 is in Opt.2, my Beocenter 9500 in Opt.0 (connected into the ML network via 1611 converter) and my Beolab 3500 is in Opt.4, as it’s in the same room, so I control it with LINK commands.

 

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[Madskp]

There are some limitations in distribution of HDMI sources to masterlink.

This older thread might help you https://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/t/40202.aspx

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[CharlieWednesday]

I had a feeling it would be something to do with HDMI protection, thanks.  I only really want one of the four HDMI inputs to be available to listen to from the link room speaker (my PC), so I’m wondering, if I get hold of an HDMI audio extractor with a digital coax out, then connect that to the BS3 and choose that as the sound input for that particular AV input, that might work.  Those extractors are available cheap so I might get one and try it as an experiment.

Thanks for the help.

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[Guy]

CharlieWednesday wrote:

if I get hold of an HDMI audio extractor with a digital coax out, then connect that to the BS3 and choose that as the sound input for that particular AV input, that might work.

Yes that should work fine*.  When hdmi inputs were first introduced on B&O TVs, users with ML systems were told to add a SCART connection in order to make sure that sound was distributed to link rooms.  This was quite straightforward when, for example, DVD2 had both hdmi and SCART outputs.

* EDIT:  Actually I am not sure that it will!  It’s still a digital input to the BS3.  Maybe an hdmi extractor providing analogue output that can be fed into the BS3 would be better.

* EDIT2:  From the BS3 Userguide p14:

NOTE! Only sources with an analogue signal
can be distributed from a main room TV to
the link room system.

I have had mixed results trying to distribute hmdi sources from BV10-32, as described in this post (and the wider thread): https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/beovision-10-and-new-apple-tv/#post-51987

• This reply was modified 3 days, 6 hours ago by Guy.
• This reply was modified 3 days, 6 hours ago by Guy.

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[CharlieWednesday]

Thanks for the advice.  I’ve checked the connection settings in the BS3 and if you use HDMI as the video source, it only gives you two choices for audio – HDMI, or SPDIF.  It does not give you the option of using analog for audio if you are using HDMI for video.

I found an HDMI audio splitter with a digital coaxial out on Amazon, and it was cheap enough to be worth ordering, just to try it.  I’ll let you know if it works when it arrives.

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[CharlieWednesday]

Update – the HDMI audio splitter arrived, so I connected it as AV4 with HDMI D used as the video input and SPDIF used as the audio input.  As I suspected, this works for the main speakers connected to the Beosystem 3, but not the link speaker.

It’s specifically sound from my PC I was hoping to get through the link speaker, so I’m going to conduct another experiment.  My PC has a digital audio out socket, but it’s optical not coax, so I’ve ordered a little converter to convert optical to coax.  I’m wondering: if the sound is coming from a separate source, and not split-out from the HDMI, maybe that will work.  I think it’s unlikely to be honest, but worth a try.  I’ll add another update when I’ve tried that.

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