<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> >> Dear mythtv-users ...<br>
> >><br>
> >> I recently upgraded my living room to modern(?) standards in terms of<br>
> >> TV-sets ;-)<br>
> >><br>
> >> Threw out the old tube and bought a Sony Bravia KDL42W655. Not the best,<br>
> >> not the last, but quite an improvement.<br>
> >><br>
> >> While I could watch mythtv-stuff via DLNA (works, but is a bit<br>
> >> uncomfortable, no nice GUI, not so nice navigation ...) I would also<br>
> >> like to use my old mythbuntu-frontend.<br>
> >><br>
> >> This box only has an old graphics card with S-VHS, composite and DVI ...<br>
> >> so I bought an adapter cable: DVI->HDMI ... this gives me video output<br>
> >> on the TV, nice :-)<br>
> >><br>
> >> But I don't get audio so far.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Is it possible to output the audio via ALSA and the soundcard while<br>
> >> delivering the audio via plain old cable (those red/white cinch ...)?<br>
> >><br>
> >> A friend of mine told me that there is no audio on DVI, right?<br>
> >><br>
> >> -<br>
> >><br>
> >> Additionally I think that the TV set doesn't yet "combine" the pic from<br>
> >> HDMI and the audio via the other cable.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Maybe some Bravia user here knows how to deal with that?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would probably opt to buy a new video card... but if that's not possible they do make DVI+Audio to HDMI adapters... like this one here: <a href="http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=101&cp_id=10114&cs_id=1011405&p_id=5369&seq=1&format=2">http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=101&cp_id=10114&cs_id=1011405&p_id=5369&seq=1&format=2</a> or here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/DVI-plus-Audio-HDMI-Converter/dp/B007NZR7H4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1410415779&sr=8-3&keywords=hdmi+to+dvi+with+sound">http://www.amazon.com/DVI-plus-Audio-HDMI-Converter/dp/B007NZR7H4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1410415779&sr=8-3&keywords=hdmi+to+dvi+with+sound</a></div><div><br></div><div>Again... before I messed around with any of that, I would spend the money on either a new video card that supports hdmi audio... or a new motherboard (almost all modern mobo's have hdmi). You can get a mobo+celeron cpu/gpu+ram for under $100 that would make a great little frontend. Perhaps not as great deinterlacing as a dedicated nvidia GPU... but good enough.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>