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Google Streamer audio dropouts/glitches.

Jeremy4
Community Member

Hi all,
I've had the Google streamer for a couple of days now and I've been trying to figure out why the audio keeps having a small glitch in the sound every 2 minutes or so (random intervals). I have the streamer connected to the TV in the HDMI port and I am listening to the sound via the Optical Toslink cable which is connected to a pair of wireless headphones.
Because I wear headphones I can hear the glitches (small drop outs) quite clearly and it's very annoying.

(If I stream via the TV LG software, Netflix, or Youtube etc. then I NEVER hear any glitches).
I now have the TV HDMI set to PCM mode and the streamer set to No surround sound.
But I still hear a glitch every now and then.
No idea how I can sort this out, anyone else hear audio glitches?

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Jeremy4
Community Member

UPDATE: I eventually sent the wireless headphones back and I'm keeping the Google streamer.
For some strange reason it seems like there are different "signal strengths" in the optical toslink signal which is going to the headphone receiver, this isn't really scientific I know.
When the hdmi signal originates from the google streamer then it glitches but when it originates from the tv software then it doesn't glitch. I used an older optical receiver with a different pair of headphones and those had no glitches what so ever.
I suspect that the newer headphones reciever was "more sensitive" to the optical signal (perhaps the connector quality is less).
Is it even possible that the optical signal strength varies depending on the source? My guess is maybe and this might be the cause because I suspect the signal strength on the google streamer is weaker.

Jeremy55
Community Member

Second update: the audio still drops out every now and then, hopefully this will get fixed with a firmware update...