5.1 optical out on Panny 220 & other queries

[Vishu_fbd]

Hi Guys,

I am not able to see any options that displays audio out as 5.1 in Panny while playing movies. All I have seen are the options of LR, L & R. Does LR mean 5.1 if the movie track is 5.1 or is it down-mixing it to 2channel. Have anyone noticed this?

I am using optical out on the BD player which is connected to my Onkyo HtiB. I am able to hear sound from all speakers but am not sure that if the panny is giving that or the AVR is doing the pseudo-conversion.

One very weird thing I noticed today is that a sample movie mkv file is playing however if I play the same mkv for its full movie, the player says format not supported! How can that happen, any reasons?

It seems it also does not play mts files? Anyone got it playing at their end.

I have not made the player region free as yet. But I think I would need to if going region free is the last option that will take care of the above issues.

Appreciate FM views.

Thanks,
Vishu

 

[prosenjit]

about audio issue
why not hdmi route..
simplest.....

about file playing..i saw it happened in many players.
sometimes shows doesnot support..but file starts anyway..

 

[jsmithe]

Hi Guys,

I am not able to see any options that displays audio out as 5.1 in Panny while playing movies. All I have seen are the options of LR, L & R. Does LR mean 5.1 if the movie track is 5.1 or is it down-mixing it to 2channel. Have anyone noticed this?

See the Audio section on page 26 in the manual http://service.us.panasonic.com/OPERMANPDF/DMPBDT220-MUL.PDF for how to set the Digital Audio output. I get a DTS 5.1 or DD 5.1 downmix via the Optical out from my BDT-220 when playing BD's with only DTS-HD/DD True HD tracks. IIRC, the BDP downmixes to DTS/DD automatically in the above scenario.

If your AVR can take a HDMI input, then as prosenjit indicated, that would be the easiest connection from BDP to AVR, besides you'll get the advantage of DTS-HD/DD TrueHD.

 

[Vishu_fbd]

Forgot to add my AVR supports HDMI pass-thru only, so optical out is the only option at this point for me.

 

[Vishu_fbd]

about audio issue
why not hdmi route..
simplest.....

about file playing..i saw it happened in many players.
sometimes shows doesnot support..but file starts anyway..

For this file, the sample is playing fine but the main file is not supported as shown by player...

 

[jsmithe]

For this file, the sample is playing fine but the main file is not supported as shown by player...

Could be that the full mkv file has some errors in it's encoding further down the stream that the BDP is choking on. The sample may not have the problem in the smaller size video stream.

Post your question on lake's thread (how to play MKV's on Bravia or something like that) in the TV section and perhaps he will be able to help identify the problem.

 

[Vishu_fbd]

Ya will do. Could you tell what options you see in soundtrack info when a movie is being played. All I can see are L, R & LR options. Is there any 5.1 or DD option that the BD shows?

I tried using both bitstream and PCM options and keeping HDMI audio off.

 

[jsmithe]

Ya will do. Could you tell what options you see in soundtrack info when a movie is being played. All I can see are L, R & LR options. Is there any 5.1 or DD option that the BD shows?

I tried using both bitstream and PCM options and keeping HDMI audio off.

Let me try a BD or two to see what audio info' is shown when playing a movie. Don't remember what it was, since the DTS/DD indicator on the AVR used to light up when playing BD's and I did not look beyond that.

IIRC, if you set PCM out on the BDP then you will only get 2ch. stereo.

 

[jsmithe]

Let me try a BD or two to see what audio info' is shown when playing a movie. Don't remember what it was, since the DTS/DD indicator on the AVR used to light up when playing BD's and I did not look beyond that.

IIRC, if you set PCM out on the BDP then you will only get 2ch. stereo.

OK, here's what I see when playing a BD with a DTS-HD Master track selected, clicking the Audio button on the remote and selecting Playback Information Window:



The AVR's DTS indicator is lit.

Here are the Audio settings on my BDP: