dandiego wrote:nmalinoski wrote:Lawfer wrote:Can you input at the same time 1 HDMI for video and 1 analog for audio and get 1 digital output?
My AVR does this, albeit only if the HDMI stream excludes audio. Would definitely be interesting/nice to configure/customize inputs by selecting a pair of video input and audio input, and I think that would be necessary anyway for assigning the TOSLINK I/O as an input to one of the video inputs.
What AVR do you have?
It's an Onkyo TX-NR555. It basically has a set of profiles with user-friendly labels on the physical buttons on the front and remote (BD/DVD, CBL/SAT, STRMBOX, GAME, PC, etc.) to which you can configure specific HDMI and/or a component or composite input for video, and then a specific TOSLINK and/or stereo RCA input for audio; so you can, for example, assign HDMI 1, COMPONENT 1, OPTICAL 1, and AUDIO 1 to the BD/DVD profile, which would configure that input to use HDMI 1 and fallback to COMPONENT 1 for video and use HDMI 1 for audio and fallback to OPTICAL 1 then AUDIO 1 for audio.
(I'm pretty sure only one HDMI input can be assigned to a given profile at a time (so you can't have two profiles using the same HDMI input), but you can have the same of any of the other video or audio inputs as fallbacks, so you could, for example, have all of the profiles fall back on COMPONENT 1 and AUDIO 1.)
My biggest problem trying to use TOSLINK-capable consoles with the regular OSSC (TOSLINK from component switch routed around OSSC directly to my AVR) has been that, when TX Mode on the OSSC is set to HDMI, it
always adds audio to the HDMI stream, even if nothing is playing over any of its inputs, which means my AVR sees that [logically empty] audio stream and uses that instead of falling back on TOSLINK, which actually has the audio stream I want; so I need to have a separate profile on the OSSC that changes TX Mode to DVI, which kills the embedded audio, and allows my AVR to see and use the audio from its TOSLINK input.
Since the OSSC Pro is a new product from scratch, I think it might be a good opportunity to reexamine the existing profile system and potentially redesign it. If the OSSC Pro inherits profile system from the regular OSSC, then I think that would mean tight pairing between video and audio inputs (for example, the component and adjacent stereo RCA/TRS jack(s) will always be part of AV2), but there'd still be the exception of the TOSLINK input, and I don't think it's been made clear how that would work--if it would just blanketly override whatever analog audio is coming in over any currently-selected input, or if it would be preferred on a per-profile basis, or what.
Personally, assuming everything is planned to be as close to the original OSSC, at least to start with, I think having it preferred on a per-profile basis or paired with a specific input would be fine
for me, because I only use digital audio from YPbPr component sources, but I think that would cause headaches for anyone that uses TOSLINK from more than one type of input.
If the profile system is up for redesign, I think I would like to pitch something akin to what my AVR uses--a logical profile that can be configured with whichever pairing of inputs would be needed for a given console, however it's connected in a given person's setup.
For example, if Profile 1 is for a PlayStation connected (whether or not through a switch) to the SCART input, Profile 1 could be configured to use the SCART input for both audio and video, possibly indicate the initial format as RGBS, plus any other tweaks that may be necessary; and, when you select Profile 1, the Pro would switch to SCART for AV, using RGBS and whatever other settings are needed specifically for your PlayStation.
Another example: A profile for a BIOS-modded Xbox could be set up to use the component input for video, using RGsB instead of YPbPr, and TOSLINK for audio (with a fallback on the RCA input).
A third: If you have a Genesis 1 or Neo Geo AVS with only mono on the AV output but stereo from the front panel, and your SCART cable doesn't have one of those TRS extensions to grab stereo from the front of the console, you could set up this console's profile to use video from the SCART input, but then use one of the TRS jacks for audio, connected to the console with a regular male-to-male TRS cable.