I have a third gen apple tv and a Denon AVR-1612 Receiver. I have the HDMI from the Apple TV hooked into the TV. This gives me video and sound through the TV. To get sound through my receiver I connected the Optical Audio from the Apple TV to the receiver but nothing is working. Any help would be great.
Apple TV, iOS 5.1
I'm afraid I don't know anything about your particular receiver, however on most receivers it is necessary to match an input with an output, have you done this, if not, refer to your manual to see how it is done.
I was having the same problem..
I connected my apple tv to my yamaha receiver with an optical cable so that I could stream music with out having to turn my television on but it would not working at first. The only way I could get it to work was to turn the tv on AND have airplay mirroring on.
Finally, following the advice of Winston Churchill above, I changed my audio out and dolby digital settings (see below) and now I can stream my itunes music to my receiver without having to turn on the television...apple tv does need to be turned on however.
Go to settings --> audio & video
dolby digital --> ON
audio output --> 16 bit
Hope this helps.
Welcome to the Apple community.
Try changing the audio out and Dolby Digital settings under audio and video in settings on the Apple TV.
I already tried with no success.
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