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awol · 05-23-2008, 08:58 AM

IIRC, you need to have your PS3 set for LPCM over the HDMI settings. Remember that the PS3 is doing the decoding. Your AVR will NOT show anything other than "Multichannel". This is because your AVR is only processing the signal into sound. It's not doing any decoding. Note that processing is not the same as decoding.

When you send plain dolby digital and plain DTS, you can send those as bitstream from the PS3 over HDMI or optical. All this means is that the PS3 is NOT decoding the soundtrack, it sends all of the data directly from the disc to the AVR which then decodes it. The PS3 is not capable of sending a bitstream of Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD Master Audio, even though your AVR is capable of decoding it. As such, you have to let the PS3 do the decoding and send it as LPCM. During a movie, you can press the "select" button on the PS controller, and it will show up top (I think, maybe at the bottom) what the soundtrack is.

Set up this way, you should have multichannel sound coming from your speakers even though your AVR does not light up for DD or DTS.

05-23-2008, 08:58 AM	#4
awol I'm Fabulous. Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,661	IIRC, you need to have your PS3 set for LPCM over the HDMI settings. Remember that the PS3 is doing the decoding. Your AVR will NOT show anything other than "Multichannel". This is because your AVR is only processing the signal into sound. It's not doing any decoding. Note that processing is not the same as decoding. When you send plain dolby digital and plain DTS, you can send those as bitstream from the PS3 over HDMI or optical. All this means is that the PS3 is NOT decoding the soundtrack, it sends all of the data directly from the disc to the AVR which then decodes it. The PS3 is not capable of sending a bitstream of Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD Master Audio, even though your AVR is capable of decoding it. As such, you have to let the PS3 do the decoding and send it as LPCM. During a movie, you can press the "select" button on the PS controller, and it will show up top (I think, maybe at the bottom) what the soundtrack is. Set up this way, you should have multichannel sound coming from your speakers even though your AVR does not light up for DD or DTS. Last edited by awol; 05-23-2008 at 09:04 AM.