[mythtv-users] Nvidia 8400GS SPDIF/HDMI pass through.. how?

[Roy Lofthouse]

2009/10/6 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Dan Ritter <dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:47:42PM +0100, Roy Lofthouse wrote:
>>> I'm running a pure dvi cable, but will test with a dvi-hdmi cable
>>> tomorrow.  I'm starting to think it's a hardware issue.  My SPDIF
>>> header only has three pins and I went off the connector that was
>>> already there (Black/Red and White wires).
>>
>> DVI doesn't carry sound. Only a cable that is HDMI from one end
>> to the other will carry sound.
>
> Untrue. The audio and video are muxed into one stream. DVI will carry
> that stream whether or not it has audio, its just that displays with a
> DVI port don't have any logic to extract the audio. However a DVI to
> HDMI cable will fix that.
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Thanks to all who replied.. turns out it was just the connector that
needed the pins changing.. I was loathe to do this again as the first
time I did the system would not power up... so I left the GND and
swapped the SPDIF over to the only other connector and voila!

Only things is I had to disable AC3 and DTS passthrough to get some of
my vids sounds to work.

Thanks Again. :)