<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:42 PM, John P Poet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jppoet@gmail.com" target="_blank">jppoet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Kenneth Emerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenneth.emerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">kenneth.emerson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I helped my son set up a new MythTV setup for his new home (yes, he finally moved out, but no, he didn't want to leave the MythTV scene!). Figured the easiest solution was to use MythBuntu. The setup was pretty straightforward (as much as any piece of this project can be :) ). The one piece we cannot solve is the sound. He has a Logitech 5.1 system with digital coax. Unfortunately, his MB only has analog output :(. However, his new 60" Panasonic plasma TV has audio pass-through :) . When we try to test the audio through the MythTV audio setup (he is running current 0.27) we cannot get anything to "pass-through" except 2 channel stereo. There are other choices that include 5.1 but we get "No digital signal" from the Logitech controller. Has anyone else tried this or have any ideas beside buying a sound card?<div>
<br></div><div>-- Ken E.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Common problem, with probably no solution. The TV itself only has two speakers, so it reports two channels as the maximum it can handle. HDMI will not transmit more audio channels than the device it is attached to can handle... At least that was the situation when I looked into a similar problem a couple of years ago.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>John<br></div></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Sure there's a solution. If nothing else you could hack the EDID and tell the kernel to override what's detected from the screen. May not be easy, but many things are possible in Linux if you're determined enough.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Karl<br></div></div>