[mythtv-users] Looking for hardware recommendations

[Allen Edwards]

SPDIF passthrough is as good as it gets.  Anything different would be
distorting the signal as SPDIF is the signal as transmitted.  You
can't do better unless you are taking about decoding it and sending
analog then you can do better only if you are doing a better job of
decoding than the next box would have done.

Allen


On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Eric Sharkey<eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Richard
> Morton<richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> how about a cheap pcix video card (Nvidia 8 series?)
>> I understand that some have digital audio pass through for the HDMI output
>> so you can combine your audio into the HDMI out and still use your AV
>> receiver.
>
> The pass through options on these cards only pass through the data
> from the SPDIF port, which, as I understand it, is less capable than
> native HDMI.  Since the poster mentioned wanting to do "HD audio", I
> presume that SPDIF isn't good enough.
>
> SPDIF is certainly good enough for my ears/budget.
>
> Eric
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