![]() Once you’ve done that, the TV really is the “switch” between differing inputs, and you don’t need any second device to do extra complicating work. It should have an HDMI output, too, and you just need to set either the driver for the video card, or the settings for the playing app you’re using (or both, actually) to allow 5.1 to be sent out the HDMI port. I *think* you’re over complicating this, because your PC has an optical output. Then the Beam is connected to the TV, and whatever you’re playing on the screen of the TV is sent to the Beam. There should be a setting in whatever application (or in the settings for the video card) that you can set to tell it to put out a 5.1 signal. Then you make sure the computer is sending a 5.1 signal out from the HDMI to the TV set, ignoring the optical output completely on the PC. The Beam would be connected to the TV’s ARC port, which looks like a standard HDMI input. What I mean (just to be sure we’re not talking past each other) is that all devices should be connected to the TV set with an HDMI cable. Whatever goes in is what comes out of a splitter or a TV. ![]() Unless you mean plug the Optical to HDMI adapter in to the HDMI switch, with the switch plugged in to my TV instead? With the other HDMI slot going to my Beam? So PC > optical cable > Optical to HDMI adapter > HDMI Switch in the TV > HDMI cable from switch to the Beam? (with a separate direct HDMI cable from PC to TV for display)īut shouldn’t the new sound or video card need to / be able to create a 5.1 signal to feed to either the splitter (not recommended) or the TV (recommended) anyway? If the sound or video card can only generate a stereo signal, no switch will be able to change that from Stereo to 5.1. So unless I'm mistaken, using my TV as a HDMI switch won't solve my problem because I need the optical cable from the sound card to go in to the Beam. So I thought of the above solution to save having to keep unplugging the HDMI from the Beam to TV, when I wanted to use my PC (with 5.1 sound). But I use the HDMI slot for my TV to have eARC capabilites. I need to use optical with a new sound card for it to work, but the beam doesn't have optical and only one HDMI slot. My computer is connected to the TV at the moment via HDMI but when trying to use Sonos, it's only detected as 2.0 sound because nvidia graphics cards don't encode/decode 5.1 dolby digital, or something like that. I don't know if I'm confused or I've not included the right information for my problem, so apologies in advance haha. Why not just connect the computer directly to the TV, and let the TV be your HDMI switch, sending the appropriate signal out through the optical cable (or even better, through ARC or eARC) directly to the Beam?
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