Comment Re:At This Point (Score 1) 127
I ran into this same issue, only when using eARC my sound bar had some of buffer overflow issue that would cause an audio dropout every five minutes or so.
It took about 10 months, but HDMI audio extractors finally came out. That have the single cable from the console and outputs the full signal to the TV, and just the audio to the second output.
The audio EDID flags are pulled from the audio side.
The extractor wants you to connect to the eARC port which I'm not doing. So I lose CEC signals so my TV remote can't control the sound bar's volume.