[mythtv-users] Shopping for new hardware: Audio & discrete video?
Eric Sharkey
eric at lisaneric.org
Thu Nov 14 17:30:55 UTC 2013
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Jon N <jdnandroid at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did see something about audio hardware on the video card somewhere
> or other (I've looking in a lot of places, and no longer remember
> where I saw everything). But when I check the specs of a couple of
> Nvidia cards on Newegg it did not list anything.
Support for this is just assumed on all cards with HDMI output. I
don't think I've ever seen an HDMI card that didn't have either native
sound support or SPDIF passthrough.
> Maybe I would have to go back the the Debian group for the next
> question.
Given the quality of their answers so far, I wouldn't recommend that.
> Since I will end up with 2 audio chipsets in the computer,
> 1 on the Mobo and 1 on the video card I wondering how to make sure the
> one I want gets chosen.
You just need to set the appropriate default sound device. See:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#HDMI_output_does_not_work
Eric
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