[mythtv-users] DVI video/Sound card recomendation

[Phil Bridges]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Ben Edwards <list4me2 at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > As I have got a new flatscreen tellly I guess I should get a DVI card
>> > whitch outputs both video and audio.  I currently have a HDMI-DVI
>> > cable for video and use a seperate amp for audio.  The TV has good
>> > sound so would rather use TV.
>> >
>> > I am using Mythubuntu 9.10.
>> >
>> > So if it is a video/audio DVI card I need whitch one do peole recoment
>> > (cheeper the better) or is there another solution?
>> >
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>> You know that DVI doesn't support audio, right?  You'd be better off,
>> most likely, getting an nVidia card that has an HDMI output - perhaps
>> a 210 or 220?
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> I currently have my frontend/backend connected to my TV with an DVI-HDMI
> cable, and the sound works fine. My motherboard has on-board video/sound, so
> I didn't have to do anything to connect a sound card to my video card, but I
> know this can be done as well.
>

You have audio running over your DVI cable?