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Co-Star - Strato : No Audio Problem

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dFs

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Hi, me again.
I'm having problems after problems.

So I have a Strato and M500 connected via Co-Star.

The Strato's "Main" HDMI is going to the Co-Star and the Strato's "Audio Only" HDMI is going to my AVR.

Problem is;
I'm only getting audio when I am viewing content that is stored on the Strato.
If I want to view content stored on my M500/1U system, I get no audio.

If I don't use the two HDMI outputs as mentioned above, I get problems with the video output.

Any solutions?

Does the Strato's "Audio Only" HDMI output only output audio sourced from the Strato? This makes sense, but if I go back to just using the"Main" output, I get bad videos problems.
 
dFs said:
Does the Strato's "Audio Only" HDMI output only output audio sourced from the Strato? This makes sense, but if I go back to just using the"Main" output, I get bad videos problems.
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I posted on your other thread but I'll answer this question directly here. In a Co-Star setup, audio and video always comes directly from the device that is playing. So content being played by the Strato is output on the HDMI cable(s) connected to the Strato. Content being played by the paired M500 is output on the HDMI cable connected to the M500. It is not passed through to the Strato. The Strato simply acts as a command routing platform to control the M500.

Therefore, if your audio is on two different HDMI cables, your AVR would need to switch inputs when playing content from the different devices.
 
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