[mythtv-users] New spdif setup suggestions

[Phil Wild]

>
> Can someone who has gotten HDMI audio to work help out here with the version
> numbers required as a minimum on alsa and nvidia drivers to get HDMI audio
> working?
> Specifically, I just upgraded alsa and have version 1.0.16.  Is this good
> enough for HDMI?
> Why did anyone have to upgrade the nvidia driver?
> I am trying to put together a wiki for digital sound that works and I don't
> have HDMI so there is a limit on what I can test.
> Thanks for the help.
> Allen
>

I have an Asus M3N78-EM motherboard with onboard HDMI and the nvidia
8300 chipset.

The ASLA version 1.0.17 that comes with mythbuntu 8.10 is not recent
enough. I only have experience with mythbuntu so can not comment on
other distributions. I was able to get audio over hdmi working by
upgrading to 1.0.18a or 1.0.19.

The easiest method of upgrading your alsa configuration under
mythbuntu 8.10 is with the script available in this thread.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810#post6589810

Download the script AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.16.tar
extract the script from the tar file and execute it like so...

sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.16.sh -di

It will take about 15 minutes to complete and afterwards everything works....

This will upgrade ALSA to version 1.0.19

I did not need to upgrade any nvidia components to get this working.

Phil