[mythtv-users] Nvidia 8400GS SPDIF/HDMI pass through.. how?

[Dan Ritter]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:56:31PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Dan Ritter <dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:47:42PM +0100, Roy Lofthouse wrote:
> >> I'm running a pure dvi cable, but will test with a dvi-hdmi cable
> >> tomorrow.  I'm starting to think it's a hardware issue.  My SPDIF
> >> header only has three pins and I went off the connector that was
> >> already there (Black/Red and White wires).
> >
> > DVI doesn't carry sound. Only a cable that is HDMI from one end
> > to the other will carry sound.
> 
> Untrue. The audio and video are muxed into one stream. DVI will carry
> that stream whether or not it has audio, its just that displays with a
> DVI port don't have any logic to extract the audio. However a DVI to
> HDMI cable will fix that.

Bizarre. Thanks for the correction.

-dsr-


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