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Anyone know if its possible, some setting maybe, that would keep an audio signal live while a video is paused? The issue I run into is when I pause a video and resume it, the receiver basically has to re-negotiate the signal type and then has several seconds of no audio, prompting me to always have to go back 5 seconds or so. When playing content on a Fire TV Cube, Xbox, etc. I do not seem to have this issue. I verified with Pioneer and they say it's behaving like normal, so not like an eco mode or anything, which I had checked just to be sure. I had Yamaha receivers before and never had this issue. I have Windows in general set for Atmos (running a 5.1.4 setup).

I had a similar problem for a long time, mainly with with Blu-rays I ripped myself and bitstreaming lossless audio, but the sound was usually gone completely until I stopped playback and started it again.

I did finally found a solution that fixed it for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments...e_such_as/

I have Nvidia GPU and Denon AVR, but I guess it might affect other GPUs/AVRs as well. Basically you need to find the HDMI audio driver in the registry and disable the power saving function. 

Thanks for the info. I am using an Nvidia GTX 1080, and tried this fix, and while it seems to be slightly quicker in getting audio back, it has not resolved the issue. I did notice is DSplayer settings it has it set for internal audio decoder, and mentions that its settings overrides the settings in the main settings, however the main ones has an option to keep the steam active as well, which I had set to always. In any case, I still get 3-5 seconds of audio delay when I resume. Having a baby in the house unfortunately means we pause fairly frequently. I am using a new Pioneer receiver, and never had this issue with the old Yamaha receiver (was only using WMP then though).

Any other thoughts? Of course when using the Xbox, Fire TV Cube Gen 2. this is not an issue.