A/V Receiver and a Wii

Helpless Rock

So I'm having a problem getting this to work. I feel fairly confident that I have all the things connect right but I'm still not getting picture, just sound. This is on an Onkyo HT-R380.

Anyway, I recently bought a M/M component cable and plugged one end into the TV In and the other into the Receivers Component Out. I've switched the TV to the correct component channel and then connected the Wii component cables into the CBL/SAT plugs (since everything else is taken in HDMI with a 360 and PS3), and the audio into their CBL/SAT slots. I feel this is how it should work. Did I end up getting faulty cables from Monoprice or does my receiver really not work this way? I didn't see any settings on the receiver or the TV that would turn something on to make this work. I though I saw something in searching before buying the cables that this should work. All I can hear is the Wii Home music, and while soothing, it is not what I want.

The only real option outside of bad cables (which seems incredibly bizarre) is that my receiver just can't do this for some weird reason and I should have bought Audio cables from TV to receiver. hmm.

maximumzero

Why not use HDMI instead?

Helpless Rock

I didn't think the Wii could do HDMI.
The trick was that I know my receiver can't convert component to HDMI so I would need component going from the TV to the receiver for Wii and HDMI for everything else. Which is what I've done but it still doesn't work.

Instead I've just hooked the Wii to the TV and then ran an audio cable from TV out to a receiver slot. Which works fine, it's just not how I wanted it to, or thought it would, work.

Skoal Cat

So you can hear it, but not see it?
Your receiver probably doesn't have HDMI pass through, meaning it can't take a component signal and turn it into an HDMI signal. You need to connect your Wii to the receive (as you've done), and your receiver to your TV using another set of component (video) cables.

Helpless Rock

Skoal Cat wrote:

So you can hear it, but not see it?
Your receiver probably doesn't have HDMI pass through, meaning it can't take a component signal and turn it into an HDMI signal. You need to connect your Wii to the receive (as you've done), and your receiver to your TV using another set of component (video) cables.

That is exactly what I've done. Still no picture.

Rderdall

Have you confirmed that the receiver's Cbl/Sat inputs are addressed correctly? On most receivers, you have the ability to set any input connection to any labelled input (eg, Cbl/Sat component input can be used to send video to the DVD input). The audio and video can be addressed individually, so that could explain the sound with no picture.

The chances of a bad cable are almost nil.

Helpless Rock

hmm. The last time I used the Cbl/Sat input it was through HDMI. Actually that does give me the idea to see if I have another option for component back there besides cbl/sat. I know there is also DVD and Game, but those are being used by HDMI (PS3 and 360 respectively) and I'm pretty sure I can't have one set to both HDMI and component could I? There wasn't any options in the receiver I found that had to do with assignments, just naming things.

EDIT: Seriously? That is stupid. I plugged it into the BD/DVD slot and then changed the receiver channel to Cabl/sat and magically there is picture. That doesn't make any damn sense. But I guess it works now, so there we go. Either there is some weird setting I missed that has to do with the labeling or it's just wrong on the back of the receiver, I don't know. either way it's dumb.