Another AV home setup question

I have received good useful instructions here before, so I thought I would give it another chance.  I am attempting to setup another audio visual component to my home theater setup.  I have a Wii that is now connected to Netflix.  I have read thru the manual of my Onkyo TX-SR875 or 805.  Eyesight is bad enough that I have not been able to read which model I actually have.  However, I don't think that is the problem.

What I am attempting to do is to set up the Wii on this home theater setup.  I currently have HD DVD player set up on it.  I also have commiecast set up on it.  Both run successfully.  I also have my mac set up to the HD Toshiba screen with audio from mac to Onkyo using the optical audio.

So far, I have been able to get the picture to show up successfully using component cables from Wii to Component Video in on receiver.  I also used the same color jacks for the video and audio portions.  Of course, the sound is non existent when I play the thing.  I assumed that the audio would be sent out thru the HDMI out to the TV just like the video.  I was hoping this would work.  It doesn't.  The instructions do show how to set up a game console but it avoids using the hdmi out and I was hoping to do this with as little wiring as possible.  I already have LOOONG cables in use.

I'm not sure I read this correctly.  Are you trying to do this:
VIDEO:  Wii Component Cable > Onkyo > HDMI Cable > TV
AUDIO: Wii Audio > Onkyo > HDMI Cable > TV


This is a troubling comment for people with Wiis and Onkyos.
http://www.avsforum.com/a.../showthread.php?t=1142467

Just as a sanity check, is HDMI Audio set to on for the receiver, it looks like the default is off.


HDMI Audio
This setting determines whether audio received by an
HDMI input is output by the HDMI OUT. You may want
to change this setting to On if your TV is connected to
the HDMI OUT and you want to listen to audio from an
HDMI component through your TV’s speakers. Nor-
mally, it should be set to Off.
Off:
 HDMI audio is not output (default).
On:
 HDMI audio is output.
Notes:
• If On is selected and the signal can be output by the
TV, the AV receiver will output no sound through its
speakers.
• When TV Control is enabled, this setting is set to
Auto.
• With some TVs and input signals, no sound may be
output even if On is selected.
• When the HDMI Audio setting is set to On, or TV
Control is set to Enable and you’re listening through
your TV’s speakers (see page 37), if you turn up the
AV receiver’s volume control, the sound will be output
by the AV receiver’s speakers. To stop the AV
receiver’s speakers producing sound, change the set-
tings, change your TV’s settings, or turn down the AV
receiver’s volume.

Audio is the one that does not work.  Video works fine.

I have the HDMI out from the receiver to the TV.  I have the component cable (using Rocketfish cabling RF Giioo9) from the Wii to Onkyo.  This cabling has 1 connection into the Wii with thick cable coming out and then breaks into a set of 3 cables and a set of two.  I plugged in the 3 cables into the component video section green to green, blue to blue, and red to red in the vertical column.  I refer you to gleek's illustration of the 875.

I want to hear sound but do not hear it from either the TV speakers or the home theater speakers.  So, my conclusion is that the component cable for video works fine and I have input sound through the component audio cables.  I just have to find a way to get the sound from the receiver out through the theater speakers.

There is no difference in the sound output when I change the HDMI audio output to no from yes.

I will read through the links provided prior to me writing this post (started about an hour ago).  Will also read thru the manual to see if there is a way to get sound from speakers and video thru TV with out extra video cabling.

You guys have been quite helpful.

I have just confirmed again that I would never have made a good bomb technician either building or unbuilding them.

So how many cables come out of the Wii and plug into the receiver? How many are video and how many are audio?

The Red and White are your sound cables. These need to be plugged in for sound.

w00t!