Issue found... It was Volume Leveling. Turned it off and now works as expected.
Hi sakendrick
Thanks for posting in the Roku Community regarding your inquiry.
If you connected your Roku device directly to your TV, are you experiencing the same issue with your audio?
Please keep us posted what you find out and we will be able to assist you further.
Thanks,
Danny
RokuDanny-R so you're suggesting HDMI from ROKU to TV and then optical out from TV to AVR? I'll give it a shot as I was thinking about doing this anyways because of handshake issues, but will need to swap the cables around.
FadedMaster - gave that a shot but no luck. I tried all the settings.
Sorry - forgot to answer the other question. It's an Onkyo NR6050... bought it a year ago or less.
What model TV do you have? Doing optical out may only give you two channel as well. Not all TVs pass surround from the HDMI out through the optical.
My suggestion is either run the Roku through the AVR. Or use (e)ARC if your TV supports it. Your audio receiver supports eARC.
From what I can tell about that model Onkyo, if you're getting multi channel input and you're in direct, you should still get a multi channel output. So that should not be causing the issue.
What's strange to me is that you still don't get a multi channel signal at your receiver when you try forcing it on at the Roku. Do you have any other sources connected to your receiver that supports multi channel output?
Vizio E70 F3
Not sure I follow your suggestion about running the Roku through the AVR. That's what I"m doing that isn't working (on direct). I can change the mode on the AVR to DD or different DTS options, but my understanding is that if I'm only getting stereo from the Roku (which Direct suggests I am), then the AVR is just simulating 7.1.
In terms of other sources connected - yes... the TV for one as I mentioned. I also have an old WD TV Hub - I'm pretty certain I've had no issues with digital out of there through HDMI into the Onkyo, but I will test again to confirm and further narrow whether the issue is isolated to Roku.
Deleting this reply --- it is not my Onkyo. see latest post.
