hdmi with toslink (1 Viewer)

[familyguy]

hello,

i was wondering if i can use a dvd player with hdmi only for video and use a toslink for the audio. will this screw up the dvd player since it might try to output audio from two places (hdmi and toslink)? also can toslink handle 6.1 sound?

 

[familyguy]

hello,

i was wondering if i can use a dvd player with hdmi only for video and use a toslink for the audio. will this screw up the dvd player since it might try to output audio from two places (hdmi and toslink)? also can toslink handle 6.1 sound?

 

[Carl Johnson]

Yes you can use HDMI for video only and toslink for audio at the same time, no it won't screw anything up, and yes toslink can carry 6.1 sound

 

[familyguy]

thanks

 

[RAF]

The only caveat about Toslink and 6.1 sound is that this does not include the decoded lossless/uncompressed audio codecs on HD discs (both formats). HD players (HD-DVD and Blu-ray) can only pass the decoded HD audio via HDMI and, if present, analog audio outputs. SP/DIF (Toslink and coax) are not allowed to carry decoded HD audio at this time and this probably won't change soon if ever.

 

[Eric Samonte]

It can be done but u have to tell the dvd player to output the sound via toslink and also the reciever to use the toslink instead of the HDMI. Toslink does handle 6.1.