[mythtv-users] HDMI audio: plughw:0, 7 works but hdmi:CARD=NVidia doesn't

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 17 February 2011 14:06, Dave Badia <dbadia at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I upgraded to 24-fixes and found that hdmi:CARD=NVidia doesn't give
> me sound but plughw:0,7 does.  (I never tried hdmi:CARD=NVidia prior
> to .24)
> I didn't think it was a big deal but then I upgraded to JYA's 24-fixes
> to get TrueHD and friends going - now I see that plughw:0,7 won't
> allow me to enable those.   So it seems I must solve to get
> hdmi:CARD=NVidia working after all

hdmi:CARD=NVidia doesn't guarantee you it's pointing to card 0, device 7 ..

If you use a very recent version of ALSA (only a couple of months
old), then the new alsa library let you choose the various hdmi
devices with something like:
hdmi:CARD=NVidia:DEV=x where x is 0 to whatever