[mythtv-users] HDMI-CEC ?

Dan Wilga mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu
Wed Oct 5 19:33:53 UTC 2011


On 10/5/11 3:02 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Dan Wilga
> <mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> On 10/5/11 8:39 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>>      
>>> I seem to recall that some video cards support CEC commands, without
>>> using a special adapter. Having upgraded to a newish video card a while
>>> back, I'm going to look into this further before I buy the adapter.
>>>
>>>        
>> Replaying to myself: While it's theoretically possible for a video card
>> to send/receive CEC data over HDMI, it's apparently only supported in
>> hardware by one or two manufacturers at this point, and not at all at
>> the driver level by nVidia. At least that's what Google came up with.
>> So, I ordered an adapter. I'll see how I fare at sending the appropriate
>> on/off commands once it arrives (in 5-7 days).
>>
>>      
> Excellent, a guinea pig :)
>    
BTW, it's worth mentioning that there is another device which does 
pretty much the same thing, but is a little more expensive:

   http://rainshadowtech.com/default_files/HDMICECUSB.htm

I also came across this really cool site, which will parse a CEC data 
stream:

   http://www.cec-o-matic.com/

-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."



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