[mythtv-users] Video+Audio over HDMI with nVidia

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Tue May 27 03:03:38 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Steven Ihde <steve at x2.hamachi.us> wrote:
> On Monday 26 May 2008 12:24, bjmisc-mythtv at bearhunter.com wrote:
>> Steven Ihde <steve at x2.hamachi.us> wrote:
>>  >Right, but note that even if you find the right nVidia card with a
>>  > SPDIF input, it still won't work because the Linux driver doesn't
>>  > support audio-over-HDMI yet.
>>  >
>>  >If anyone else on the list has got video+audio over HDMI to work
>>  > with an nVidia card on Linux, please let us know!
>>
>> The ASUS EN7600GT is an nVidia card with SPDIF input that works just
>> fine with Linux. No special setup is needed. It comes with a small
>> fiber optic cable that connects to your sound card's SPDIF output,
>> and then connects to a SPDIF input on the graphics card. Audio and
>> Video then get combined to go through the HDMI cable to your TV.
>
> That is really great to hear.  Thanks for the info.  Perhaps the poster
> on the nVidia forums had some other problems or was just wrong.  Now if
> I can just find a passively-cooled version of this or a similar card.

I just found this one on newegg.com. The only thing that bothers me is
one reviewer commented that the x86_64 drivers for this card do not
work, only the i386. If that gets worked out though this should be the
perfect card. Another review said it worked well for blue-ray
playback.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127301

>> I
>> use the standard ALSA drivers for my sound card, and the kmdl nVidia
>> video drivers for the graphics card.
>
> I assume you're just talking about the standard nvidia proprietary
> driver?  I'm a Debian user and have never heard of "kmdl" before.  Is
> that just RedHat-speak for the rpm containing the kernel module?

Not necessarily, there are several ways of getting the nvidia binary
drivers. Download and install yourself, use a repository like atrpms
or livna which make a package for a specific kernel version, OR
download the kmdl version from freshrpms which will automatically
compile the module on boot every time your kernel is updated (my
preference as well.)

> Thanks,
>
> Steve

Richard


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