[mythtv-users] from PC to TV: HDMI-DVI Adapter, what about the sound?

[Joseph Fry]

>
>
> > >> Dear mythtv-users ...
> > >>
> > >> I recently upgraded my living room to modern(?) standards in terms of
> > >> TV-sets ;-)
> > >>
> > >> Threw out the old tube and bought a Sony Bravia KDL42W655. Not the
> best,
> > >> not the last, but quite an improvement.
> > >>
> > >> While I could watch mythtv-stuff via DLNA (works, but is a bit
> > >> uncomfortable, no nice GUI, not so nice navigation ...) I would also
> > >> like to use my old mythbuntu-frontend.
> > >>
> > >> This box only has an old graphics card with S-VHS, composite and DVI
> ...
> > >> so I bought an adapter cable: DVI->HDMI ... this gives me video output
> > >> on the TV, nice :-)
> > >>
> > >> But I don't get audio so far.
> > >>
> > >> Is it possible to output the audio via ALSA and the soundcard while
> > >> delivering the audio via plain old cable (those red/white cinch ...)?
> > >>
> > >> A friend of mine told me that there is no audio on DVI, right?
> > >>
> > >> -
> > >>
> > >> Additionally I think that the TV set doesn't yet "combine" the pic
> from
> > >> HDMI and the audio via the other cable.
> > >>
> > >> Maybe some Bravia user here knows how to deal with that?
>

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:
http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=101&cp_id=10114&cs_id=1011405&p_id=5369&seq=1&format=2
or here:
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

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.
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