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

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 20:09:40 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Dan Ritter <dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:

>> >
>> > 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.

Its OK, I made the same mistake in a similar thread and was corrected,
just passing on what i learned :)


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