<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 25/08/2009, at 3:52 PM, Patrick Ruckstuhl wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Hi,<br><br>I got audio over HDMI working just fine using the following:<br><br>Mainboard with onboard Graphics Card that can du vdpau: P5N7A-VM<br><br>I'm using mythbuntu<br><br>what I needed to do is create the file /etc/asound.conf<br><br>pcm.hdmi_hw {<br> type hw<br> card 0 # <----- Put your card number here<br> device 3 # <----- Put your device number here<br>}<br><br>pcm.hdmi_formatted {<br> type plug<br> slave {<br> pcm hdmi_hw<br> rate 48000<br> channels 2<br> }<br>}<br><br>pcm.hdmi_complete {<br> type softvol<br> slave.pcm hdmi_formatted<br> control.name hdmi_volume<br> control.card 0<br>}<br><br>pcm.!default hdmi_complete<br><br><br><br>use the 0 and 3 I found out by running aplay -l which lists<br><br>**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****<br>card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br><br><br>After this I used alsamixer to unmute the device (basically just try to<br>unmute everything until you here something)<br><br>Regards,<br>Patrick<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Patrick </div><div><br></div><div>I understand the first section (hdmi_hw), and this tallies with Allen's HowTo well, but what about the next two sections?</div><div>How do these operate into a 5.1 receiver, and waht needs to be set in which section of MythTV setup (passthrough settings, buffer settings....)</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><br></body></html>