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HDMI Splitter - Audio only comes through when one TV is on

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I'm not particularly knowledgeable about home theater setups, but I can't for the life of me figure out the issue here, and I can't find anything from Google either.

My setup is probably easiest to see in a picture, so here it is. I've got a Blu-Ray player and a DVR hooked to a switch, which outputs to a splitter that sends the output to two TVs. There's also surround sound thrown in there which I've tried putting both up and down stream from the splitter.

The problem is, if only one TV is on, everything works flawlessly. If both TVs are on, the audio disappears but the video is totally fine. I've removed devices one by one and this is definitely the splitter at fault. The splitter is a Monoprice Blackbird.

If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them, and I can provide any additional information needed.

Posted Sep 29, 2019, 1:22 AM UTC

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Toast-OP•

I saw the matrix switches and never really knew what the difference was. Fair point, that seems like a good idea. I'll make that change and see if that gets me anywhere, thanks!

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MrRonObvious•

Are you running discrete cables to your amplifier from the DVD/BlueRay and DVR or are you relying on the HDMI cable to carry the audio as well as the video?
If it's the latter, you might want to invest in some of those small boxes which can strip out the audio from an HDMI cable so you can send the audio where you want it to go directly, instead of it having to pass through the splitter.

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Toast-OP•

Neat, I haven't come across those before. Currently doing the latter using just HDMI. I'll look into this a little more in the morning, that seems like a really clean solution.

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