[mythtv-users] FYI - New HW video accellAPI from NVIDIA

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Mon Nov 17 08:35:29 UTC 2008


Nicolas Will wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 17:25 +1000, lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com wrote:
>   
>>
>> --- Original message ---
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FYI - New HW video accellAPI from NVIDIA
>> From: John Andrunas <john at andrunas.net>
>> To: Jason <spuppet at comcast.net>, Discussion about mythtv
>> <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Date: 17/11/2008 7:20 AM
>>
>>     
>>> Now if audio over HDMI only worked on the Nvidia drivers I would be
>>>       
>> in heaven,  I look forward to this making HD playback much less an
>> exercise in tuning, and > spending! :)
>>
>> Dream setup :) 5.1 Sound over HDMI output with H.264 acceleration via
>> onboard hardware.
>>     
>
> Why stop at 5.1?
>
> "HD" audio formats are 7.1, are they not?
>   
Modern nvidia cards (under Windows) have an internal SPDIF input that 
simply gets muxed with the video output prior to transmission.  SPDIF 
only suports 2.0 PCM, or 5.1 AC3/DTS.


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