I have a Denon AVR-X1800H receiver permanently hooked up to an Intel NUC via HDMI and eARC for audio. It works fine. I have the dolby sound software on the NUC and the receiver recognizes it. I play movies with VLC.
I pause the movie with the spacebar in VLC, come back, and sometimes the sound is now gone. About half the time. Usually when I wait longer its always gone. I then have to go to the Audio Menu in VLC -> Audio Device -> switch to Default; then switch back to Denon Receiver which is also listed.
Why? Why does my audio cut out to begin with? How do I fix this?