Connecting Gaming PC to Soundbar

Kshitija · March 29, 2023

Hello, I have a Samsung Q6DT 82" QLED TV. I want to attach my gaming PC to it at the HDMI e-ARC port but I also want my Samsung sound bar to work at the same time to provide surround sound for gaming. Because when I attach my soundbar on the normal HDMI port instead of the e-ARC port it works but vice versa it does not. And I really want to use the e-ARC port for Gaming PC. How can I achieve it? Any ideas are gladly accepted

dilpickle · March 30, 2023

You have two options.

1. Plug PC into regular HDMI port on TV, and plug soundbar into eARC port on the TV.

2. Plug PC into soundbar, and plug soundbar video out into any port on TV.

If your video card has 2 HDMI outputs you can also plug one into the TV for video and one into soundbar for audio.

Omon_Ra · March 30, 2023

2 hours ago, Kshitija said:

Hello, I have a Samsung Q6DT 82" QLED TV. I want to attach my gaming PC to it at the HDMI e-ARC port but I also want my Samsung sound bar to work at the same time to provide surround sound for gaming. Because when I attach my soundbar on the normal HDMI port instead of the e-ARC port it works but vice versa it does not. And I really want to use the e-ARC port for Gaming PC. How can I achieve it? Any ideas are gladly accepted

eARC is only for audio to a sound device (soundbar or AV receiver) via HDMI. There's no real benefit to connecting your PC to the eARC port, unless it's the only one of a higher HDMI standard. The soundbar should only play the TV audio if it is connected to the eARC port. If the soundbar isn't working via the eARC port, you need to make sure the HDMI is plugged into the HDMI Out port on the soundbar, that eARC is disabled/enabled on the TV (depends if your soundbar supports eARC, and if the HDMI cable can support eARC, some old HDMI cables are kind of iffy if it works or not). And if it's a relatively older or cheap soundbar, that you manually set the audio output format on the TV to PCM rather than Auto. If you're deadset on using the eARC port for your PC, you'll have to hook up your soundbar via optical.