How do I bring back the sound of my PS3 on my sony LCD TV with HDMI?

[Hans Castrop]

Hi
I've connected my PS3 to my Sony LCD TV and put some movies on my PS3. The sound of the movies is linear PCM 5.1. My TV has stereo sound so all I hear is some background sound...the voices I can't hear! Does anybody know what changes to make to the settings of the PS3 (or Sony LCD) to be able to hear the voices? I want 5.1 brought back to stereo.
Thanks.

[MrBoylan]

Ah yes, I've seen/heard this happen before. If the PS3 is in auto mode, it should detect the TV's capabilities during the HDMI handshake and automatically set itself to two-channel output. But if this is failing for some reason, you can manually set the digital audio output capabilities in the audio settings on the PS3.

Here's a page on the Sony web site that explains how to do this:

Audio output settings on the PS3

Hope that helps and let us know if it does (or doesn't!).

Regards,

-Chris

[Hans Castrop]

Hi Chris;
I've tried the settings in the users guide as you suggested, but without luck. I own a sony KDL46NX71FTI with the table stand with sound. I turned off the table stand, just to make sure. So I only have sound from the sony LCD. I turned off both PS3 and LCD and turned on again, so the make that handshake. I also changed the settings manually but when I look at the movie and its outputsettings it shows linear PCM 5.1...and no voice of course. I've tried several movies. I even connected an oldfashioned stereo amplifier with good old plugs and changed the settings in the PS3 to match that. Even then I had just the backgroundsound but now from my stereo system.
I ran out of ideas to try.
Regards,
Hans

[MrBoylan]

OK, did you also look at the BD-DVD Audio settings?

http://manuals.playstation.net/docum...ings.html#1470

Try both PCM and bistream here and see if it makes any difference to the sound. Also, what movies have you tested with? Did you try different audio tracks on the discs themselves and are the results any different?

-CB

[Hans Castrop]

Yes I did try that one...I tried the menu for quite some time in all possible ways. But I have some new information: this problem only occurs with downloaded movies. I've downloaded some 17 gyg movies and wireless transfered them to PS3. On my PC with surround sound everything sounds well, but on PS3...well you know. But now I've tried an actual bluraydisk and that sounds fine with PS3, so I hear voices (from the movie that is ). so for some reason movies on harddisk go wrong.

Regards,
Hans

[MrBoylan]

OK, that's good to know. And are you sure the audio codec is one that the PS3 supports? Are these Divx or XVid AVI files or are they MKV or are they something else? It's possible that the audio codec is causing the problem. It could be AC3 (Dolby Digital), DTS, MPEG, Ogg/Vorbis or something else entirely.

If you can determine the audio codec, that would be helpful. You might need to transcode the files to a compatible format on the PC before transferring them over to the PS3.

-CB

[Hans Castrop]

You may be right there. I didn't think of this, only thought it's a hardwareproblem. I've waited writing this answer hoping I could find out more info, but now for some reason the movie doesn't play on PC either. I used to be able to play it with VLC player with sound but it doesn't open now. I could see the audio codec though: bpcm according to the audio info from VLC player (it did give the info). I originally had a mkv and used mkv2vob to make a mpg. I probably didn't have the right settings.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Hans