New install with issues

[jbruno]

Spent the day today installing my UMC-200 & UPA-700.  Got to the point.  of turning everything on and have an issue with the video. 

Previously TV video was sent via component video, Blu ray was HDMI with the cat 5 extenders, everything worked fine this morning.  

First off no video from either my cable box or blu ray.  No audio for the blu ray either.  Both are hooked to the UMC via HDMI, 1 & 2, HDMI out to TV uses CAT 5 extenders to carry signal to Mitsubishi WD-65376 DLP TV, Cable box is a Scientific Atlanta from TWC, Blu Ray is an older Sony, BDP s350.   Seems to me that there might be an issue with the video output signal, my TV sends the message " no signal".  

All of my audio connections work, Sirius, CD, Sonos, Nuvo system, and TT.  Pretty good variance in outputs, but I'm sure the system needs some tweaking.  Not really sure why I don't have video to the TV, any help would be a great!  

Thanks

[bootman]

Start with the cat5 extenders.

Run a hdmi monitor to the umc with a good hdmi cable.
if that works at least you know the umc is good, then you work from there.

[jbruno]

Good call Bootman!  One of the power supplies had come loose putting everything back in place.  Have functional Blu Ray now, cable box a bit spotty though. There seems to be issues, but hopefully those are TWC box issues. Seems I have to work out the set up part now. 

[bootman]

Audio or video issues with the cable box?
if audio try PCM instead if Dolby
if video what settings do you have it set at? pass through or fixed at 1080i?

[jbruno]

Think I have it worked out, thanks to my bro in law Mark. It seems to be somewhat tied into the power up order.  I followed up his suggested power up order and things seemed to work properly and have been for a couple do hours now. So far i am working without any of those issues now. I need to power everything off and try powering back up again to see if that is a permanent order I need to set or if it was just something to do with the intial set up.

I wasn't able to locate those options for pass thru or 1080i in the UMC anywhere. 

[audiobill]

This isn't Jimmy Bruno, jazz guitarist?

[klinemj]

No - just my jazzy brother-in-law...

Glad it's working now, Jon! Looking forward to seeing it and hearing it in person. Over a fine beverage, of course...

Let me know how your further testing pans out. (PS - we found a new place we have to take you and Missy here in town...outstanding food and drink! That's where I had the 4 Roses.)

To others...his STB was basically cycling over various resolutions...over and over - it would not lock in. I had him turn off the TV, the UMC, and the STB...then, turn them on in the order TV, UMC, then STB. After that, it held the HD resolution and is playing fine. I recall something from way back about sinks needing to be on first, so that's why I suggested it. Does that ring true for others...or was my suggestion to jbruno a fluke that it worked?

Mark

[jbruno]

So far all is well. I haven't tried turning it on in another order yet, but I will check that sometime today.

Probably about the only other thing is the display on the bottom of the screen. I have figured out where to turn it off, but, it seems to me that I must get varying signals from my cable box, some are 2 channel (48 KHz 2/0), and others are in 5 channels, (48 kHz 3/2+LFE).  The only problem is, every time this signal changes, my audio drops out.  I am not sure if there is any way to correct this, or possibly my playback selection might have something to do with this as well.

[klinemj]

You should be able to control what your cable box sends from a menu on your cable remote...find its menu button, press it and look around for setup or settings or something like that. You should be able to get to an audio setting. With mine, I can choose for it to either send PCM or play Dolby Digital if the broadcast supports it. I have mine set to DD, so sometimes it is sending 2 channel and other times 5 channel - but the UMC-1 is not dropping audio on switches.

I do have the UMC-1 set to preferred decoding modes, so if the audio does switch - it automatically goes to whatever I want. (One option is to take PCM input and put it into PLIIx) With the UMC-200, it looks like you have map the decoding modes in "menu, setup, playback"...and that should let you start mapping your input modes to specific output modes.

On the popup display on your screen, once you get the audio dropouts handled, you can turn that off or on at "menu, setup, features, status popup".

Mark

[jbruno]

On my box, the only Audio option it appears is digital. I don't appear to have any ability to change the audio.   I just changed a few channels and above the 48 kHz and the  CH: 2/0 or 3/2 +LFE it does say "Dolby Digital". Have even notice some do not list the LFE 

sometimes while watching the same channel that changes back and forth between the 2/0 & 3/2

[klinemj]

What is the option...digital for one setting and analog for another?

When it switches, is it at commercials or within the main broadcast?

Mark

[Gary Cook]

Common problem with cable/satellite boxes, the time taken for HDMI HDCP handshake is annoying, especially when the main program is in 5.1 and the adds are in stereo. To avoid this I have video only via HDMI from my cable box with audio via a digital connection, toslink in my case. There is no loss of audio quality (or quantity), I've yet to find a cable/satellite box that outputs better than 5.1. In the UMC-200 set up menu you just select a digital input and assign it to the same HDMI input as the video, that gives one button push for source selection.


Cheers
Gary