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Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS

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In article <jfcn2v$ghk$1@news.albasani.net>, root  <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
>J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
>> And did you connect a cable from the SPDIF digital out pins of your
>> sound card or mainboard sound to the SPDIF digital in pins of your 
>> nVidia graphics card?
>
>Duh, no I didn't because I didn't know anything about that. My
>video card is an EVGA GeForce 210.

I recently upgraded the video card in my MythTV box from a 9500GT to a 210. 

The former has a 2-pin header that you can connect to a S/PDIF header on the
motherboard (or on a sound card); this input is muxed with the video.  

The latter has sound-generating capability built in; AFAIK, all you need to
do is make sure (1) you're using a recent version of nVIDIA's binary-blob
driver and not the open-source driver and (2) make sure it's unmuted.  It
shows up as four different output devices, but with MythTV at least, you
want to make sure the second is selected.  I've tested it with AC3 and DTS
output so far...haven't tried feeding it PCM (either stereo or multichannel)
yet.  It's supposed to handle multichannel PCM, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD
Master Audio, which are big wins over what you can do with feeding S/PDIF to
an older card.  I haven't tested those capabilities to see if they work.

(That the 210 is fanless is a nice bonus, even if the fat heatsink does
intrude into the neighboring slot's space.)

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HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-01-20 20:26 +0000
  Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-20 20:35 +0000
    Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-01-20 21:10 +0000
      Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-20 21:41 +0000
        Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-20 21:49 +0000
        Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-01-20 22:47 +0000
          Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 00:07 +0000
        Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2012-01-20 22:50 +0000
          Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 00:12 +0000
            Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 00:25 +0000
              Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2012-01-21 16:05 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 18:29 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 18:40 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2012-01-21 21:43 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-21 23:55 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 01:14 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2012-01-22 03:23 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 04:04 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2012-01-22 13:02 +0100
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 14:54 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-01-22 17:41 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-01-22 17:55 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 18:07 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-01-22 18:02 +0000
                Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2012-01-22 20:01 +0100
    Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-01-21 19:23 +0000
  Re: HDMI sound on GeForce 8400GS TheGunslinger <mikiesrunsbaal.sec@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-01-21 11:34 -0800

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