Audio Issues?

[Equilibrium_FOOL]

A while ago I moved houses, and I am just unpacking and setting up my home theater setup.  The AV receiver is a Yamaha RX-V373, the speakers are some Yamaha setup, and a HTPC I built a while ago.

 

The problem(s):

• Clickyish sound at the beginning of any audio with my HTPC.  This is using the audio capabilities of HDMI.  Double checked with a laptop, no click sound.  Later I set-up the system in the final location and I couldn't get the HTPC to output any audio over the system, the video worked fine. 
• Static/white noise underlying audio playback while using my test notebook.  I did the same thing with my apple tv, far less/no white noise.  This was tested using a 5.1 surround test YouTube video.

I am a complete newbie regarding home theater set-ups so I really don't know what to search for.  I did research what these problems 'could' be, none where plausible to me.  Am I completely missing a setting in the system?

 

Any help is appreciated!

[Changis]

30 minutes ago, Equilibrium_FOOL said:

A while ago I moved houses, and I am just unpacking and setting up my home theater setup.  The AV receiver is a Yamaha RX-V373, the speakers are some Yamaha setup, and a HTPC I built a while ago.

 

The problem(s):

• Clickyish sound at the beginning of any audio with my HTPC.  This is using the audio capabilities of HDMI.  Double checked with a laptop, no click sound.  Later I set-up the system in the final location and I couldn't get the HTPC to output any audio over the system, the video worked fine. 
• Static/white noise underlying audio playback while using my test notebook.  I did the same thing with my apple tv, far less/no white noise.  This was tested using a 5.1 surround test YouTube video.

I am a complete newbie regarding home theater set-ups so I really don't know what to search for.  I did research what these problems 'could' be, none where plausible to me.  Am I completely missing a setting in the system?

 

Any help is appreciated!

try playing a silent wav or something that uses the audio channels without producing sound (like a youtube video with the volume turned all the way down) then use a different player and see if there still is a click sound, if there isn't, it's most likely the delay that comes from using audio over hdmi, as the audio is automatically muted when not in use, and it takes half a second or so (noticable) before audio starts playing.

are you using the same inputs when testing with the apple tv?
it might also be a badly shielded audio card on the motherboard.. i'm guessing now since you didn't provide any specifications of the htpc you have issues with

[Equilibrium_FOOL]

9 hours ago, Changis said:

try playing a silent wav or something that uses the audio channels without producing sound (like a youtube video with the volume turned all the way down) then use a different player and see if there still is a click sound, if there isn't, it's most likely the delay that comes from using audio over hdmi, as the audio is automatically muted when not in use, and it takes half a second or so (noticable) before audio starts playing.

are you using the same inputs when testing with the apple tv?
it might also be a badly shielded audio card on the motherboard.. i'm guessing now since you didn't provide any specifications of the htpc you have issues with

I'll try playing the silent wav today, along with playing a on-disk file. 

 

The HTPC specs:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Equilibrium_FOOL/saved/LnYfrH

 

I will try and use my other notebook to test the system as well-maybe a better sound card.

 

Another strange issue I noticed this morning while getting spotify running on the connected notebook, no audio was being played from the speakers connected to the receiver.  All of the HDMI inputs were connected, same as I used last night, but I had to restart the notebook to get any audio playback over the speakers.  This could 100% be a problem with the notebook, or perhaps an error in recognizing inputs by the receiver?

[AshleyAshes]

10 hours ago, Equilibrium_FOOL said:

This was tested using a 5.1 surround test YouTube video.

YouTube has no support for 5.1 audio.  Any 5.1 or other surround audio that is uploaded to YouTube is downmixed to stereo when they transcode it.  Any '5.1 Surround' test file you find on YouTube, will actually be in Stereo.

[Equilibrium_FOOL]

12 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

YouTube has no support for 5.1 audio.  Any 5.1 or other surround audio that is uploaded to YouTube is downmixed to stereo when they transcode it.  Any '5.1 Surround' test file you find on YouTube, will actually be in Stereo.

The whole system wasn't completely in 5.1 anyway, I just used the video as it *should* have a decent audio quality.