[mythtv-users] Shopping for new hardware: Audio & discrete video?

[Jon N]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

>
> Support for this is just assumed on all cards with HDMI output.  I
> don't think I've ever seen an HDMI card that didn't have either native
> sound support or SPDIF passthrough.

OK, that makes sense.  I guess it was added for just the problem I
'thought' I was having.
>
>> Maybe I would have to go back the the Debian group for the next
>> question.
>
> Given the quality of their answers so far, I wouldn't recommend that.

Well, I'm a little embarrassed now, maybe I shouldn't be mentioning
where I'm getting advice from in the future.  They did give me a lot
of help, and since it's not a group dedicated to audio/video questions
maybe it wasn't exactly fair to expect them to know this.
>
>>  Since I will end up with 2 audio chipsets in the computer,
>> 1 on the Mobo and 1 on the video card I wondering how to make sure the
>> one I want gets chosen.
>
> You just need to set the appropriate default sound device.  See:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#HDMI_output_does_not_work
>

Thanks.  I'll have to try out some of the commands once I get home
just to see what the output is on my current system, even though I
don't have 2 sets of audio hardware.


-- 
Jon